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@github-actions github-actions released this 07 Jun 17:28
· 195 commits to main since this release

🎬 Youwee v0.17.0

A modern, beautiful YouTube downloader built with Tauri.

✨ What's New

Added

  • Command-line interface - Added a local youwee CLI with install controls, structured download requests, and options for quality, audio mode, queue-only, playlist handling, subtitles, download sections, live-from-start, and skip-live behavior
  • Skip live streams - Added a download setting to skip currently live videos from the YouTube and Universal interfaces
  • AI summary search - Added SQLite FTS5-powered Library search across titles, URLs, file paths, and saved AI summaries, with search scope controls for all content, details only, or AI summaries only
  • YouTube keyword search - Added a dedicated YouTube keyword search view with filter controls for upload date, duration, sort order, and video features, letting selected results be added directly to the download queue
  • Queue status tabs - Added compact status tabs to the YouTube and Universal queues for filtering videos by download state
  • Plugin SDK YouTube search bridge - Exposed app-managed YouTube keyword search to JavaScript plugins through ctx.youwee.youtube.searchVideos(...) with typed filters and continuation support

Changed

  • AI generation timeout - Expanded the AI Generation Timeout options up to 60 minutes and now applies the selected timeout to AI provider HTTP requests for long-video summaries
  • Application database filename - Renamed the internal SQLite database from logs.db to youwee.db with automatic migration from the legacy file while keeping the old file as a backup

Fixed

  • Bilibili HTTP 412 - Added browser-like headers to Bilibili yt-dlp requests to prevent HTTP Error 412

πŸ“₯ Download

Platform File Description
🍎 Mac (M1/M2/M3/M4) Youwee-Mac-Apple-Silicon.dmg For Apple Silicon Macs
🍎 Mac (Intel) Youwee-Mac-Intel.dmg For Intel-based Macs
πŸͺŸ Windows Youwee-Windows.msi MSI Installer
πŸͺŸ Windows Youwee-Windows-Setup.exe EXE Installer
🐧 Linux Youwee-Linux.deb Debian/Ubuntu
🐧 Linux Youwee-Linux.AppImage Portable (all distros)
🌐 Extension (Chromium) Youwee-Extension-Chromium.zip Unzip and load unpacked on Chrome/Edge/Brave
🦊 Extension (Firefox) Youwee-Extension-Firefox-signed.xpi Signed unlisted add-on for Firefox stable

πŸ“‹ Requirements

  • Windows: Windows 10 or later
  • macOS: 10.15 (Catalina) or later
  • Linux: Ubuntu 22.04 or equivalent

πŸ”§ Optional

  • FFmpeg - for best video/audio quality (auto-download available in Settings)
  • Bun Runtime - if you can only download 360p from YouTube (auto-download available in Settings)

🌐 Browser Extension Install

  • Chromium: download Youwee-Extension-Chromium.zip -> extract -> open chrome://extensions -> enable Developer mode -> Load unpacked.
  • Firefox: download Youwee-Extension-Firefox-signed.xpi and open it directly to install.

πŸ” Verify Downloads

Download SHA256SUMS.txt and verify:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

Full Changelog: v0.16.0...v0.17.0