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Why not just use Youtube-dlg? Does everything it needs to and doesn't require you to use electron.

zapzupnz 7y ago
Not to mention youtube-dlg has a nicer, more powerful UI.
mayeaux 7y ago
I tried to install it but I couldn't install WxPython3 via SourceForge so I couldn't get the deps to work. Plus the maintainer of that app doesn't care much for supporting OS X and Linux (basically tells people to just go use Windows) so I wanted to use Electron where I can package an app for all platforms.
- geokon 7y ago
  I'm a bit ignorant of the details b/c I haven't touched web stuff before. But on a high level, how does a Javascript/Electron app wrap-around/bundle-with youtube-dl - which (looking at github) is a python app? Or does youtube-dl need to be already be pre-installed on the system?
  - mayeaux 7y ago
    Electron is a small Chromium browser that can interact with Node.JS, youtube-dl is packaged with this app as a node package manager dependency. The youtube-dl binary is downloaded and then called via a child process, let me know if that clears things up for you.
    - geokon 7y ago
      So you need to have the python runtime installed for this to work? Or is that downloaded as well? I was just thinking I could for instance make a similar JavaFX crossplatform GUI on the JVM, but I'd have no idea how to call the youtube-dl python code. So I'm just curious how Electron solves that problem :)
      - mayeaux 7y ago
        No you just need the prereqs to run node, the binary comes compiled already
        geokon 7y ago
        Oh okay with precompuled binaries then that's not so crossplatform. Thanks for clarifying :)
trishmapow2 7y ago
Yep seems like dlg also has config options (flags passed to youtube-dl) unlike this app. As a sidenote I didn't know what you were referring to initially because the executable is named youtube-dl-gui...
djsumdog 7y ago
I hadn't heard of youtube-dlg. I tried to install it and it looks like it's still Python2 :(

Not to mention youtube-dlg has a nicer, more powerful UI.

I tried to install it but I couldn't install WxPython3 via SourceForge so I couldn't get the deps to work. Plus the maintainer of that app doesn't care much for supporting OS X and Linux (basically tells people to just go use Windows) so I wanted to use Electron where I can package an app for all platforms.

geokon 7y ago
I'm a bit ignorant of the details b/c I haven't touched web stuff before. But on a high level, how does a Javascript/Electron app wrap-around/bundle-with youtube-dl - which (looking at github) is a python app? Or does youtube-dl need to be already be pre-installed on the system?
- mayeaux 7y ago
  Electron is a small Chromium browser that can interact with Node.JS, youtube-dl is packaged with this app as a node package manager dependency. The youtube-dl binary is downloaded and then called via a child process, let me know if that clears things up for you.
  - geokon 7y ago
    So you need to have the python runtime installed for this to work? Or is that downloaded as well? I was just thinking I could for instance make a similar JavaFX crossplatform GUI on the JVM, but I'd have no idea how to call the youtube-dl python code. So I'm just curious how Electron solves that problem :)
    - mayeaux 7y ago
      No you just need the prereqs to run node, the binary comes compiled already
      - geokon 7y ago
        Oh okay with precompuled binaries then that's not so crossplatform. Thanks for clarifying :)

trishmapow2 7y ago

Yep seems like dlg also has config options (flags passed to youtube-dl) unlike this app. As a sidenote I didn't know what you were referring to initially because the executable is named youtube-dl-gui...

djsumdog 7y ago

I hadn't heard of youtube-dlg. I tried to install it and it looks like it's still Python2 :(