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# YouTube Downloader
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A GUI for downloading Video and Audio files from YouTube using Nodejs and Electron
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## Features
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✅ Light/Dark mode
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✅ Video download support (High resolution supported)
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✅ Audio download support
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✅ Available on Windows and Linux
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✅ Fast download speed
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✅ No external dependencies needed
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## Screenshots
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## Installation
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### Windows
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Download and install the exe file
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### Linux
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Linux has several options available - AppImage, deb and flatpak.
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**AppImage** is supported on most Linux distros and has Auto-Update support.
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It just needs to be executed after downloading. See more about [AppImages here](https://appimage.org/).
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For Debian based distros like Ubuntu .deb file is available. Download and run -
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```
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sudo dpkg -i file_name.deb
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```
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Flatpak version is also available. To install -
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```
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flatpak install file_name.flatpak
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```
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## For building or running from source code
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[Nodejs](https://nodejs.org/) (along with npm) needs to be installed.
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Required commands to get started.
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```
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git clone https://github.com/aandrew-me/ytDownloader.git
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cd ytDownloader
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npm i
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```
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To run with Nodejs :
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```
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node app
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```
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To run with [Electron](https://www.electronjs.org/) :
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```
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npm start
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```
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