🎵 YoutubeZik DDL V2.5

YouTube Downloader for Windows (audio & video) with a graphical user interface (wxPython)
Developed by Fawn — tested with Python 3.12 on Windows 11.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Direct YouTube music/video search within the interface
• 🎧 Audio-only downloads (.m4a format)
• 🎞️ Video downloads in .mp4 format, with or without audio
• 🔊 Option to select video quality (Low or High)
• 📁 Automatic saving into separate folders:
  • Audio Collection
  • Video Collection
• 🌈 Color-coded indicators for downloaded files:
  • Blue: Available for download
  • Green: Video already exists
  • Purple: Audio already exists
  • Red: Both audio and video already exist
• 🔄 Duplicate management system with smart dialogs
• 🧵 Background downloading (multithreading)
• 💚 Integrated PayPal donation link
• 🆘 Built-in help via a dedicated button

⚠️ EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Node.js Required

To ensure proper functionality, Node.js must be installed on your system.

➡️ Download the recommended version here:
https://nodejs.org/en/download

Without Node.js, the application will not be able to download music or videos correctly!

🖥️ Demo

• 🎬 Video demos: http://ninjaaior.free.fr/devdemos/index.html

Compiled EXE for Windows

• Compiled version: http://ninjaaior.free.fr/YouTubeZik.rar (right-click and “save as...”)

🚀 Installation

Prerequisites

• Python ≥ 3.10 recommended
• Windows only (wxPython is not cross-platform in this version)

Installing Dependencies

pip install wxPython pytubefix moviepy

Note: pytubefix is a patched version of pytube. Make sure it is properly installed.

Launching the App

python Youtube-Zik.py

📁 Directory Structure

├── Youtube-Zik.py
├── Audio Collection/
└── Video Collection/

❤️ Acknowledgements

• 📺 pytubefix
• 🎞️ moviepy
• 🖼️ wxPython

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If you found this tool helpful, consider supporting its development (and the developer’s coffee addiction ☕) here:

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Thank you so much! 💙