YoutubeDownloader

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An open-source YouTube video downloader that allows you to easily download videos from YouTube in all available original qualities. It uses yt-dlp, ffmpeg and aria2 under the hood.

Features

• Easy selection of video/audio/container formats
• Download videos from playlists
• Listing and downloading channel videos
• Embedding chapter markers
• Fast, multithreaded downloading

Screenshots

Installing

Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 7+ (x64)
• .NET 8.0 Desktop Runtime

Releases

Building from source code

Clone the repository (including submodules):

git clone --recursive https://github.com/legend2ks/YoutubeDownloader

Build the project using the build script, or:

cd YoutubeDownloader
dotnet publish "YoutubeApp/YoutubeApp.csproj" -c "Release" -o "Publish/app" -p:DebugType=None -p:PublishSingleFile=true --self-contained false

Download the project dependencies and put them in Publish/app/utils:

• "yt-dlp.exe" from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases
• "aria2c.exe" from https://github.com/aria2/aria2/releases (aria2-1.37.0-win-64bit-build1.zip).
• "ffmpeg.exe" from https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases (ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-lgpl.zip)

Roadmap

• [x] Channels section
• [ ] Audio-only formats
• [ ] Scheduler
• [ ] Subtitle support
• [ ] Multi-platform support
• [ ] Browser Integration

❤ Support

This project is free and open source, if you like my work, please consider:

• Star this project on GitHub
• Donate

Your support helps keep the project going.

Tech Stack

	Avalonia UI
	C# / .NET