YouTube Downloader

A GUI for downloading Video and Audio files from YouTube using Nodejs and Electron

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 ofcourse no trackers or ads

Screenshots

Installation

Windows

Download and install the exe file

Linux

Linux has several options available - AppImage, deb and flatpak.

AppImage

AppImage 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.

Flatpak

The app is available on Flathub here

To install run

flatpak install flathub me.aandrew.ytdownloader

After installing, a .desktop file should be added and the app should be available in app search. Othrwise it also can be launched by executing

flatpak run me.aandrew.ytdownloader

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 (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 :

npm start