yt-dlg 1.6.0

Youtube Downloader GUI

yt-dlg

A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl media downloader written in wxPython. Supported sites

Screenshots

Requirements

• Python 3
• wxPython 4 Phoenix
• PyPubSub
• polib
• FFmpeg (optional, to postprocess video files)

Requirement for build Binaries/Executables

• PyInstaller

Optionals

• GNU gettext

Downloads

• SHA2-256SUMS
• yt-dlg
• yt-dlg.exe
• Source (.zip)
• Source (.tar.gz)

Installation

Install From Source

• Download & extract the source
• Change directory into yt-dlg-1.6.0
• Create virtual environment

make clean-requirements
make venv

• Activate virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

• Install requirements, build translations and install

make install

Binaries

Create binaries using PyInstaller

• Create virtual environment

make clean-requirements
make venv

• Activate virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

• Install requirements, build translations and create binaries

make pyinstaller

Run yt-dlg

• Activate virtual environment and run

source venv/bin/activate
yt-dlg

Using pip3 on Debian 10:

Install the following packages and their dependences:

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential dpkg-dev \
             libgtk-3-dev libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev \
             libsdl2-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev \
             libnotify-dev freeglut3 freeglut3-dev \
             libsm-dev 

Setting the virtual environment and activate

sudo apt-get install -y python3-venv
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install wxPython , requirements and yt-dlg

See Notes for install wxPython on Ubuntu

pip3 install wxPython-4.1.1-cp37-cp37m-linux_x86_64.whl
pip3 install -r requirements.in
pip3 install --no-deps yt-dlg
yt-dlg 

Comprobar wxPython 4

python3 -c "import wx ; print(wx.__version__)"

List and configure Locales

locale -a
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Notes

An alternative to install wxPython 4 Phoenix from the Extras section

For Ubuntu 20.04

wget https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk3/ubuntu-20.04/wxPython-4.1.0-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl
pip3 install wxPython-4.1.0-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl 

• wxPython 4 builds on various linux distros with Vagrant

• Building wxPython for Linux via Pip

Contributing

• Add support for new language: See localization howto
• Report a bug: See issues

Authors

See AUTHORS file

License

The Public Domain License

Frequently Asked Questions

See FAQs file

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this project and to @philipzae for designing the new UI layout.