v1 Big small release

Been some time since I touched this. Grabber still works just fine for me, but after youtube-dl ended up slow, I started using the fork youtube-dlp which led to some parsing issues in the output, so you couldn't open files and it would mention the webm instead of a song on conversion.

To use youtube-dlp with Grabber, just rename the executable to youtube-dl.exe (so, without the p there). That's it, put it where you'd put the normal youtube-dl.exe, either with Grabber or in your path.

That's all the changes really, since Grabber has been stable for a long time now, I think it deserves to be put at a nice version 1.0 for the sake of it.

Added Best video quality option

Added a special option to download videos at best quality
(See this: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/g302cg/my_youtubedl_script_the_best_formatting_i_could/)

Release! (Hotfixed) Parallel downloads and new look!

Make an issue for feedback or if you have a problem.

• Redesigned main screen for a nicer look! Much easier too keep track of multiple downloads, and see what's queued up.
• Parallel downloads, up to 4 downloads will simultaneously download. Enable in About tab, toggle download mode to from Singular to Parallel.
• Right click a downloads filename to get the option to open folder with file. (Doesn't work for all cases, feedback appreciated)
• Right click options to add them as favorites for easy access, already existed, but now the favorite side is hidden until you add something as favorite.

Follow installation guidelines back on the main page: https://github.com/Thomasedv/Grabber
If you already have all the files, you only need to replace the old Grabber.exe with this new one.

Release! Parallel downloads mode and new look for the downloads page!

Make an issue for feedback or if you have a problem.

• Redesigned main screen for a nicer look! Much easier too keep track of multiple downloads, and see what's queued up.
• Parallel downloads, up to 4 downloads will simultaneously download. Enable in About tab, toggle download mode to from Singular to Parallel.
• Right click a downloads filename to get the option to open folder with file. (Doesn't work for all cases, feedback appreciated)
• Right click options to add them as favorites for easy access, already existed, but now the favorite side is hidden until you add something as favorite.

Follow installation guidelines back on the main page: https://github.com/Thomasedv/Grabber
If you already have all the files, you only need to replace the old Grabber.exe with this new one.

Release candidate: Download tab refactor

First candidate for release, should be stable regular for use.

Make an issue for feedback or if you have a problem.

• Redesigned main screen for a nicer look! Much easier too keep track of multiple downloads.
• Parallel downloads, up to 4 downloads will simultaneously download. Enable in About tab, toggle download mode to from Singular to Parallel.
• Right click a downloads filename to get the option to open folder on file. (Doesn't work for all cases, feedback appreciated)

Follow installation guidelines back on the main page: https://github.com/Thomasedv/Grabber
If you already have all the files, you only need to replace the old Grabber.exe with this new one.

Second alpha

Has fixes updating profiles with new settings, major refactor behind scenes for maintainability. But as a result there may be a few bugs here and there.

Simple login option

Preview, may contain bugs!

Added a username parameter, and it will prompt for password when you start a download. Password is remembered
for that username til Grabber is closed. No password is saved to disk. (For security reasons)

Bug fixing patch

Fixes a few edge cases were for some reason, the working directory is set to an incorrect location.

Short installation guide:

• Download Grabber.exe and place in a folder.
• Download youtube-dl.exe and either place in the same folder as the above, or in PATH, if you know how.
• If you want to convert to audio, you need to also put ffmpeg.exe and the other included executables that follow into the same folder as Grabber.exe or in PATH. (often located in)
• If nothing happens when you try to start a download, youtube-dl likely fails because you need this installed:
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=5555

Youtube-dl download:
https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
FFmpeg download (STATIC build verioin, for example 4..4 Windows 64/32, static) :
https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

Open the ffmpeg zip, copy 3 executables in the bin folder to the locations mentioned above.

New version!

Not much has been changed since the V4 alpha build, apart from a few bugs being features.
Changes:

• Moved to new settings structure behind the scenes. Now separate profile and settings files.*
• Added a new option from youtube-dl documentation to the settings.
• Fixed a few issues concerning branch lines appearing.
• Fixed other crashes
• Improved and better handling of changing profiles.

Now merges current options and the options stored for a profile. Makes it hard to delete an option that is saved in profiles, but you don't encounter errors with settings that are missing in the current state of the settings.

If anyone tries this, let me know if you find it troublesome to remove an option, as they will likely return on the next profile swap. Which is caused by profiles storing all their options for themselves, and the Grabber just mixes them when it loads a new profile with the ones already present. This makes it much better than the option, where options go away on profile change.

In the future, it might be smarter to make delete option. Since options are provided by user, most notably the download locations, it would be very annoying to have the download location for a given profile go away one profile swap, or not be tied to profiles. So currently, the system is very careful, and makes it annoying hard to remove an option properly. (which can be a problem once you make and use a lot of options.) If anyone really struggles, make an issue about it, and i can take a look at some decent methods to deal with it.

Any feedback or problems are welcome. The reason i don't really work much on this for the moment, is that i don't really have any more ideas for it, that at least feels interesting to implement, so if anyone else have feel something is missing, please do tell (by creating an an issue, they are for ideas as well!)

Alpha - New main layout of the main page (mostly) and parallel downloads

Pre-release of the Smart wrapper branch. Expect lots of bugs/errors if you dare try.

New features:

• Fresh new looking main tab, which provides info on all downloads, pending or not. (Not much for pending ones though... Might just add the video url as info in a later build)
• The new look, lets you have parallel downloads, while keeping things readable! Toggle between Parallel and Sequential downloads with a button in the About tab! The option is saved between runs
• New error messages for you when things do go wrong!

Feedback appreciated, make an issue for it, even if it's not a problem!
Have look at the new look in the smart_wrapper branch readme, there's a neat little gif there.