A modern GUI video and audio downloader supporting hundreds of sites
README in other languages
✅ Light/Dark mode
✅ Supports hundreds of sites including Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter and so on.
✅ Advanced options like Range Selection
✅ Download playlists
✅ Available on Linux, Windows & macOS
✅ Fast download speeds
✅ And of-course no trackers or ads
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Traditional way
Download and install the exe file. Windows defender may create problems as usual.
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Chocolatey
App can be installed from Chocolatey using the following command
choco install ytdownloader
Linux has several options available - Flatpak, AppImage, Snap and AUR. Flatpak is recommended.
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AppImage format is supported on most Linux distros and has Auto-Update support. It just needs to be executed after downloading. See more about AppImages here.
AppImageLauncher is recommended for integrating AppImages.
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The app is available in AUR with the name
ytdownloader-gui
. To build with pamac the required command is -pamac install ytdownloader-gui
Using yay
yay -S ytdownloader-gui
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flatpak install flathub io.github.aandrew_me.ytdn
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sudo snap install ytdownloader
Since the app is not signed, when you will try to open the app, macOS will not allow you to open it. So you will need to follow some steps to open it.
- Click on System Preferences on your Mac Dock.
- Choose Security & Privacy
- The app will be shown there. Click on Open
Translations into other languages would be highly appreciated. If you want to help translating the app to other languages, you can join from here. Open a new issue and that language will be added to Crowdin.
Name | Status |
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English | ✔️ |
Finnish | ✔️ |
French | ✔️ |
German | ✔️ |
Greek | ✔️ |
Italian | ✔️ |
Persian | ✔️ |
Polish | ✔️ |
Portuguese (Brazil) | ✔️ |
Russian | ✔️ |
Spanish | ✔️ |
Turkish | ✔️ |
Ukrainian | ✔️ |
Thanks to nxjosephofficial, LINUX-SAUNA, Proxycon, albanobattistella, TheBlueQuasar, MrQuerter, KotoWhiskas, André, haggen88, XfedeX, Jok3r, TitouanReal, soredake and others for helping.
Nodejs (along with npm) needs to be installed.
Required commands to get started.
git clone https://github.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader.git
cd ytDownloader
npm i
To run with Electron :
npm start
To build for Linux (It will create packages as specified in package.json). The builds are stored in release folder. You need to be in a Linux environment to execute those scripts. Otherwise you can download the ffmpeg binary for the respective platform and put it in the root directory of the app and build with electron-builder.
npm run linux
To build for Windows
npm run windows
To build for macOS
npm run mac