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
• FFmpeg (optional, to postprocess video files)

Requirement for build Binaries/Executables

• polib
• PyInstaller

Optionals

• GNU gettext

Downloads

• SHA2-256SUMS
• yt-dlg
• yt-dlg.exe
• yt-dlg-20230224.1.msi
• Source (.zip)
• Source (.tar.gz)

Installation

Windows 10 / 11

Microsoft Store

You can download the program for free from the Microsoft Store and take advantage of its features like background auto-updates.

Winget

winget install -e --id yt-dlg.yt-dlg

Snap Store

Install From Source

Note The latest version compatible with Python 3.6.1 is yt-dlg v1.8.2

In Windows we have the following options:

• Use the Dev Container configuration file
• Windows Development Environment
• Set up a WSL development environment

In GNU/Linux install make. Ubuntu:

sudo apt install make

• Download & extract the source
• Change directory into yt-dlg-1.8.5
• 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

• Install requirements, build translations and create binaries

  make pyinstaller

Run yt-dlg

• Activate virtual environment and run

  source venv/bin/activate
  yt-dlg

Note The default CLI Backend is yt-dlp you can change to youtube-dl CLI Backend in:

Settings -> Options -> Extra and change/select youtube-dl

Debian 11

Install the following packages and their dependences:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y apt-utils build-essential dpkg-dev \
    freeglut3 freeglut3-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \
    libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libjpeg-dev \
    libnotify-dev libsdl2-dev libsm-dev libtiff-dev \
    libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libxtst-dev

Setting the virtual environment and activate

sudo apt-get install -y python3.9 python3.9-dev libpython3.9-dev python3.9-venv
python3.9 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

Install wxPython , requirements and yt-dlg

• See Notes for install wxPython on Ubuntu

• For install wxPython on Debian 11 "bullseye" download the wheel from the release:

  wxPython-4.2.1a1-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64.whl

• For install wxPython on Ubuntu 22.04.1 "jammy" download the wheel from the release:

  wxPython-4.2.1a1-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64-jammy.whl

• For install wxPython on Ubuntu 21.04 "hirsute" download the wheel from the release:

  wxPython-4.1.1-cp39-cp39-linux_x86_64.whl

• For install wxPython on Ubuntu 20.04.5 "focal" download the wheel from the release:

  wxPython-4.2.0-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64.whl

• For install wxPython ManyLinux 2.28 download the wheel from the release:

  wxPython-4.2.1a1-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl

python3 -m pip install wxPython-4.1.1-cp39-cp39-linux_x86_64.whl
python3 -m pip install -r requirements/requirements.in
python3 -m pip 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

openSUSE Tumbleweed

Install using zypper

Open Build Service

sudo zypper ar -cfp 90 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:oleksis/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:oleksis.repo
sudo zypper install python38-yt-dlg
yt-dlg

With Python 3.8

The following steps can be executed if you use the Python version of the system (3.8, 3.9, 3.10)

sudo zypper dup  # Distribition Upgrade
sudo zypper -n update  # Non Interactive
sudo zypper -n install yum-utils

Add openSUSE Factory repository for wxPython 4

sudo zypper addrepo -f http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ openSUSE-Factory

Install wxPython 4 global (system level)

• For install wxPython on openSUSE Tumbleweed download the wheel from the release:

  wxPython-4.1.2a1-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl

Need at least one font installed

sudo zypper -n install python38-wxPython google-opensans-fonts

Install other dev packages/tools for Python 3.8

sudo zypper -n install python38-pip python38-setuptools python38-devel python38-tools python38-virtualenv python38-requests

Install yt-dlg global from PyPI

pip3 install yt-dlg

Add yt-dlg executable to the PATH and run

PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
yt-dlg

macOS Monterey

• Install Pyenv using Homebrew
• Suggested build environment

Custom Python build with --enable-framework

• How to use wxPython with virtualenv on Mac OSX

PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-framework" pyenv install 3.10.6
pyenv shell 3.10.6
python -m pip install -r requirements/requirements.in
pip install yt-dlg
yt-dlg

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-4.1.1-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl
pip3 install wxPython-4.1.1-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl

• wxPython 4 builds on various linux distros with Vagrant

• Building wxPython for Linux via Pip

• wxPython Phoenix Snapshot Builds

• Building wxPython4 with Docker

• Compile wxPython 4.1.2a1 using Microsoft C++ Build Tools 2019

• Compile wxPython 4.1.1 using Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview

• Compile wxPython 4.1.2a1 on openSUSE Tumbleweed

• wxPython Windows artifacts for Python 3.7 to 3.11

Contributing

• Add support for new language: See Localization Howto
• Report a bug: See issues
• Check how contribute: contribuite

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Authors

See AUTHORS file

License

The Public Domain License

Frequently Asked Questions

See FAQs

Thanks

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