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# YouTube Downloader
A modern GUI App for downloading videos and audios from Youtube.
<a href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/me.aandrew.ytdownloader"><img src="https://flathub.org/assets/badges/flathub-badge-en.svg" style="width:180px;"></a>
[![Get it from the Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg)](https://snapcraft.io/ytdownloader)
## Features
✅ Light/Dark mode
✅ Video download support (High resolution supported)
✅ Audio download support
✅ Available on Windows and Linux
✅ Fast download speed
✅ No external dependencies needed
✅ And of-course no trackers or ads
## Screenshots
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/66430340/187023169-e4cd9b81-1968-4758-85b7-2287808d914d.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/66430340/187023235-45095832-a357-4323-8cdd-50cfd6305d29.png)
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# Installation
## Windows
Download and install the exe file
## Linux
Linux has several options available - AppImage, Deb, Snap and flatpak.
### AppImage
**AppImage** format is supported on most Linux distros and has Auto-Update support. So it is recommended.
It just needs to be executed after downloading. See more about [AppImages here](https://appimage.org/).
[AppImageLauncher](https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher) is recommended for integrating AppImages.
### Debian package
For Debian based distros like Ubuntu .deb file is available. Download and run -
```
sudo dpkg -i file_name.deb
```
## For building or running from source code
[Nodejs](https://nodejs.org/) (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](https://www.electronjs.org/) :
```
npm start
```
To build for Linux
```
npm run linux
```