flutter youtube downloader

A Flutter Desktop GUI App of Youtube-dl which download video from Youtube, Facebook (both public and private) and other video from many website

Getting Started

Since my favorite video download page i usually use got shutdown, i wrote this :)

You can download the app

• Windows: here

• Mac OS: here

Setup

By default, the folder don't have additional youtube-dl.exe, in order for the app to work, you need to install youtube-dl.

• Windows: download the exe file from here and place it at the same location of the App

• MacOS: you can install via brew with command brew install youtube-dl

Since release 1.3, the app require additional FFmpeg executable to work, like youtube-dl, the folder don't have it ffmpeg.exe, in order for the app to work, you need to install ffmpeg.

• Windows: download the exe file from https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/, recommander the stable release builds or you're too lazy just click here to download and place the ffmpeg.exe at the same location of the App (the exe file is in the bin folder of the zip folder)

• MacOS: you can install via brew with command brew install ffmpeg

Video Location

The video location can't change by default, I will improve that in the future

• Windows: <App Location>/flutter_youtube_download_video

• Mac OS: Documents/flutter_youtube_download_video

Tested:

• [x] Windows
• [x] Mac OS
• [ ] Linux

Environment:

• Flutter: channel stable, 2.2.1
• Visual Studio Community: 2019 16.8.4
• Xcode 13.1 (13A1030d)
• Android Studio Arctic Fox 2020.3.1 Patch 3

About download private video:

To download private video, you need to get a youtube and facebook cookies files, you can read how can get that file in here

The cookies file which use for downloading facebook video must name facebook.txt

The cookies file which use for downloading youtube video must name youtube.txt

• Windows: place them at the same location of the App

• Mac OS: place them at Documents folder