jely2002 / youtube-dl-gui

A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Android App #446

Open HealingArcYT opened 1 year ago

HealingArcYT commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When I want to download videos from internet sources that are available through youtube-dl there are only a few really shady apps that allow you to download them. Whats shady about them is that you have to pay for them to not contain their own ads or that you cant even download a playlist, only single videos. Also do they force you to update the App when there is an update available. So i have to go through the pain to install and use youtube-dl on a commandline (termux) which is not easy on a mobile device.

Describe the solution you'd like

As your App already works fine on Windows and supposedly Linux too, why dont you also make a Android Version?

Describe alternatives you've considered

If you make a Web Version it is gonna be good enough, but the servers might get taken down which causes some delays

harshks250 commented 1 year ago

There are many alternatives available, I use Seal which is an open-source application available on F-Droid and it works pretty well. It uses Yt-dlp to download videos and also has a modern UI with Material You theme. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.junkfood.seal/

Otherwise for youtube videos Newpipe is also a good alternative for downloading videos. It is available on F-Droid as well. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/