YouTube Helper
A GUI wrapper for YouTube-dl.
Functionalities:
- Perform YouTube searches
- Drag and Drop or Paste (Ctrl+V) into the GUI to import links
- Supported site links follow that of YouTube-dl
- Select streams for downloading
- Import videos into playlists / create playlists (requires Google OAuth 2.0)
Python Prerequisites
Install Python prerequisites via the following command:
pip install -r requirements.txt
FFMPEG Post Processing
For postprocessing such as merging of DASH audios and videos or converting to other formats,
the ffmpeg libraries will be required.
- For Windows, download from the following link:
and either extract ffmpeg.exe to this folder or add to path
- For MacOS, install via brew:
brew install ffmpeg
- For Ubuntu, install via apt-get:
sudo apt install ffmpeg
Quick Start
Run the program via
python main.py
If you prefer to compile the python script into an executable,
pyinstaller --clean --onefile pyinstaller.spec
YouTube API Key
In order to perform YouTube searches, please obtain an API Key for the YouTube Data API as follows:
- Go to https://console.developers.google.com/ and create a project under your Google account.
- Click on the
+ Enable API and Servies
link. - Select the
YouTube Data API v3
and enable this API. - Click on
Create credentials
and create an API Key. - Save your API Key into
api_key.txt
in this folder.
Google OAuth
To operate on your playlists, please activate the Google OAuth 2.0 Services:
- Go to https://console.developers.google.com/ and create a project under your Google account.
- Click on the
+ Enable API and Servies
link. - Select the
YouTube Data API v3
and enable this API. - Click on
Create credentials
and create an OAuth 2.0 Client ID. - Save your OAuth 2.0 client as
client.json
in this folder.