This project is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to CLI multiple CLI based tools that deal with downloading online media.
Youtube-dl CLI tool is the default supported tool and other tools can be added by downloading their extension and a list of supported extensions is managed here.
Features offered:-
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The GUI can be used to download any media from any website supported by installed extensions.
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The GUI offers a configurable list of preset options that can be used to download media if they are provided in multiple formats.
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The GUI offers an ability to do unlimited number of parallel downloads. Be careful with this ability because doing too many parallel downloads may cause the host to ban you.
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The GUI offers an ability to do batch downloads by entering individual link in the UI or telling the app to read them from a local file.
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The GUI offers an ability to download playlist from websites that supports them like youtube.
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The GUI is offered in multiple languages and as of this writing, the supported languages are English, Chinese, Spanish, Polish and Turkish.
Donations are very much appreciated, Please contact me using mhogomchungu at_ gmail dot_ com for further information.
Read the extensions page for further information.
A Frequently asked Questions' page is here.
- Make sure you have access to the internet before you run media-downloader for the first time because it will attempt to use the internet to download the latest version of youtube-dl.
Installer for Microsoft Windows is here.
A portable version is a self contained version that keeps everything in the application folder.
Portable version for Microsoft Windows is here.
Binary downloads for a few Linux distributions are here.
Arch linux users can build the project from source using this aur package.
To install a binary package in Ubuntu, download a binary package directly and then click it and Ubuntu should offer to install it. If unsuccessful, follow instructions below for debian.
To install a binary package for Debian, download a binary package directly and then install it by doing the following:- from the folder where you dowload the package.
1. Make sure you have Qt libraries installed.
2. Open the terminal.
3. Change directories to where the debian package is.
4. Run the following command to install it: su -c "dpkg -i *.deb"
5. Enter root's password when asked.
To install a binary package for Fedora and OpenSuse, download a binary pacakge directly and then install it by doing the follwing:-
1. Make sure you have Qt libraries installed.
2. Open the terminal.
3. Change directories to where the debian package is.
4. Run the following command to install it: sudo rpm –i *.rpm
5. Enter root's password when asked.
To build from source, follow the following instructions
1. Make sure you have the following packages installed:-
- Development version of Qt libraries. They will be named
something like "libqt5-qtbase-devel" or "qt5-devel" or
"qtbase5-dev" or something else that sounds similar.
- cmake
- gcc
2. Dowload the source archive and extract it.
3. Open the terminal and change directories to inside extracted folder.
4. Run command: "mkdir build"
5. Run command: "cd build"
6. Run command: "cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release .."
7. Run command: "make"
8. Fun command: "sudo make install"
This program is intended to be used in a way that does not violate any laws that are applicable to its users.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.