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A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl written in wxPython

136 points by dsr12 5y ago

politelemon 5y ago
That project is abandoned. There is an ongoing fork called youtube-dl-gui: https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui And an alternative called tartube: https://github.com/axcore/tartube https://github.com/axcore/tartube
- WalterGR 5y ago
  A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl (https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui) 429 points|ducktective|2 months ago|151 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478603
  - ognarb 5y ago
    Another alternative is plasmatube[1] that is integrated with invidious and shows the youtube comments, make searching possible and show the video descriptions. [1]: https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/plasmatube https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/plasmatube
  - filmgirlcw 5y ago
    Came here to recommend the jely2002 project. You can swap out the YouTube-dl binary with the fork if you want (you need to rename it) and the dev is looking into implementing features from the fork into their project. Really good for people who need to work with less tech-savvy coworkers who need to download video files
- sha-3 5y ago
  It seems to me like youtube-dl is also abandoned. yt-dlp[0] is a fork with additional features and fixes. It is also actively maintained. [0]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
  - grozzle 5y ago
    yt-dlp is a very healthy project with a friendly community, and featurewise is just a better drop-in replacement for youtube-dl. obviously it's building on years of work that went before, but seems to me like the torch has been passed.
  - lifeslikethis 5y ago
    Ever since youtube-dl was removed from Github, it seems like they gave up on the project.
    - kzrdude 5y ago
      youtube-dl works right now, so not sure if this is a fair thing to say. But you might have more insight than me. Maybe they realized that becoming a famous project is only a detriment to their mission
      - MrGilbert 5y ago
        Someone mailed the maintainer, and received a reply that he currently has "[..] no free time to spend on youtube-dl as I'm busy with work, ongoing renovation and other post-relocation stuff." [1] [1]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29965#issuecomment-922377500 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29965#issuecom...
      - tehwebguy 5y ago
        Not sure if this is something that affects yt-dlp but youtube-dl takes something like 5 - 10 x as long as watching the video for me now.
      - EarlKing 5y ago
        It works only as long as you don't care how long it takes to download a video. youtube-dl has had a problem with bandwidth throttling on Youtube for some time now. yt-dlp does not.
- baobabKoodaa 5y ago
  Another alternative: I made a tool which allows one-click downloading videos with youtube-dl (no GUI, no command line). Here: https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/one-click-youtube-dl https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/one-click-youtube-dl
- EastOfTruth 5y ago
  I use yt-dlp [1] ... so far so good. 1. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
jb1991 5y ago
I'm curious what is the reason for a GUI for such a simple utility? The command line for this kind of tool seems like the perfect interface. Just copy a URL, paste it, press enter. No buttons to press, etc.
- __warlord__ 5y ago
  People have different workflows, for some is easier to have visual aid of how the tool works and what options are available.
- Nux 5y ago
  It's handy for people who are not comfortable with the command line, no matter how simple it is. In addition it allows one to convert to mp3 etc. The number of people who might want to download something from Youtube & co is significantly larger than that of people comfortable with the cli.
  - schoen 5y ago
    I won't criticize someone for making more interfaces for this software, but I like the prospect that more people have been and will be motivated to learn about command line interfaces in order to use powerful software like youtube-dl.
    - beckman466 5y ago
      > I won't criticize > but please stop gatekeeping > motivated to learn about command line interfaces in order to use powerful software many people never get basic tech literacy. i think we’d benefit from not simply assuming others have (or could have) access to the same resources, time and patience that we had. i think you probably mean well but your statement, which sort of implies that people say “I am choosing not to learn the important skill of using the command line!”, just comes across as ignorant and naive to me
      - suction 5y ago
        Tech literacy would help a great deal saving our democracies. Nobody needs to know command line, but to be able to tell if you're on a Russian disinfo website or a legit source of information is also (but not only) a matter of tech literacy, so I think OP is on to something here.
formvoltron 5y ago
youtube now throttling downloads right? or is there a workaround?
- arm 5y ago
  There are workarounds (detailed very nicely in dirkf’s pull request for youtube-dl): https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184 Pasting the content here for convenience: Since summer 2021, YouTube has started serving media URLs with a query parameter such as …&n=SXiXBH-xzrjeioPN&…. This now appears to be the default behaviour. Unless the value of this parameter is transformed according to an algorithm delivered in the site player JS, the download speed for the URL is throttled to ~50kB/s. Solutions for this include: • implementing a more complete JS interpreter, eg based on PR [jsinterp] Actual JS interpreter¹ #11272; • using an external JS interpreter (PhantomJS, now unmaintained, is used by some extractors); • spoofing the Android or iOS client to acquire unthrottled links, as successfully implemented in yt-dlp². This PR takes a different approach derived from the successful solution used in VLC's youtube.lua (also implemented differently in pytube³). The approach relies on the fact that the challenge algorithm is served in a mini-language within the minified player JS and therefore the specific algorithm can be extracted and executed by interpreting the mini-language without actually running the JS itself. [In parallel with this PR, a separate implementation of this approach was added to yt-dlp⁴.] The implementation of the mini-language interpreter is directly translated from VLC's n_descramble() Lua function⁵. The result sufficiently resembles the original that it should be straightforward to share changes between the two implementations. ―――――― ¹ — https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/11272 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/11272 ² — https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/c888ffb95ab0ab4f4cd1d6c93eda014f80479551 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/c888ffb95ab0ab4f4cd1... ³ — https://github.com/tfdahlin/pytube/blob/bb890af3b271a616bbe1d08abc8c65bac9266b0a/pytube/cipher.py https://github.com/tfdahlin/pytube/blob/bb890af3b271a616bbe1... ⁴ — https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/404f611f1c4aa516fbc4301aa7b8f734ee4bc67b https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/404f611f1c4aa516fbc4... ⁵ — https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/4fb284e5af69aa9ac2100ccbdd3b88debec9987f/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua#L116 https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/4fb284e5af69aa...
- rnhmjoj 5y ago
dartharva 5y ago
Electron-based alternative: https://jely2002.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/ https://jely2002.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/
- phubbard 5y ago
  I built one in Flask, with background downloads and saved state/logs in SQLite. No JS, simple CSS styling with Bootstrap. Cool to see all of these. https://github.com/phubbard/ytdl-web https://github.com/phubbard/ytdl-web
noseratio 5y ago
In other news, the new Google Drive for Windows also uses wxPython as its Desktop GUI framework (wxPython is a Python wrapper for wxWidgets, a cross platform UI C++ library). https://www.google.com/intl/en_au/drive/download/ https://www.google.com/intl/en_au/drive/download/
elAhmo 5y ago
As someone who has been working with Python a lot up to this year, I am wondering has the state of GUI frameworks improved for Python in the recent months/years? If I want to have, lets say, an application that looks (and works) like a native MacOS or Windows application, would I bet able to do that? All of the examples look really odd, with weird buttons and simply not feeling like native apps.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago
  wxWidgets does use native controls so should feel like a native app. Sadly this is its only redeeming feature.
  - bsenftner 5y ago
    I'm curious way people hate on wxWidgets so much. As a cross platform GUI, it works, and has a better license for developers than QT, and when investigating QT it looked like it requires more than just a library, but QT specific tooling to build things.
    - toyg 5y ago
      > I'm curious way people hate on wxWidgets so much. Because it just looks bad and outdated on most platforms.
      - bsenftner 5y ago
        Which would be a criticism of looking native, because that is all wxWidgets is doing. It's a wrapper for the underlying OS's native GUI.
        toyg 5y ago
        Yeah but there is native and native. Both Windows and MacOS carry widgets and styles from so many releases, and there is some intelligence involved in picking up the "expected" one with the right style etc. WxWidgets seems to make the wrong choice very often, with the result that the apps look very dated. It's probably possible to make it do the right thing, but other toolkits just do that by default.
raninepaths 5y ago
Any youtube-dl GUI for android? ( other than dvd)
- Tmpod 5y ago
  NewPipe? https://newpipe.net https://newpipe.net
  - raninepaths 5y ago
    newpipe does not support downloading whole playlist
okasaki 5y ago
I made a very simple web UI (single file flask, no JS) for youtube-dl: https://github.com/dvolk/lo2#readme https://github.com/dvolk/lo2#readme
godmode2019 5y ago
I use this https://video-sauce.com https://video-sauce.com it also let's you watch the video if you press the black logo at the bottom. These sites always disappear but this one hasn't so far
jokoon 5y ago
What would be really good, is some way to search a list of "artist - song title" to output a list of youtube video IDs.
- Minor49er 5y ago
  You could search in your browser and copy the "/watch" URLs out of the results page if you wanted this. What would be the application, though? Do you want to download music videos?
- turtlebits 5y ago
  Might be less complex to just create one line xPath query as a bookmarklet to get the ID's directly from the search results page.

136 points by dsr12 5y ago

That project is abandoned. There is an ongoing fork called youtube-dl-gui: https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui And an alternative called tartube: https://github.com/axcore/tartube https://github.com/axcore/tartube

WalterGR 5y ago
A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl (https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui) 429 points|ducktective|2 months ago|151 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478603
- ognarb 5y ago
  Another alternative is plasmatube[1] that is integrated with invidious and shows the youtube comments, make searching possible and show the video descriptions. [1]: https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/plasmatube https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/plasmatube
- filmgirlcw 5y ago
  Came here to recommend the jely2002 project. You can swap out the YouTube-dl binary with the fork if you want (you need to rename it) and the dev is looking into implementing features from the fork into their project. Really good for people who need to work with less tech-savvy coworkers who need to download video files
sha-3 5y ago
It seems to me like youtube-dl is also abandoned. yt-dlp[0] is a fork with additional features and fixes. It is also actively maintained. [0]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
- grozzle 5y ago
  yt-dlp is a very healthy project with a friendly community, and featurewise is just a better drop-in replacement for youtube-dl. obviously it's building on years of work that went before, but seems to me like the torch has been passed.
- lifeslikethis 5y ago
  Ever since youtube-dl was removed from Github, it seems like they gave up on the project.
  - kzrdude 5y ago
    youtube-dl works right now, so not sure if this is a fair thing to say. But you might have more insight than me. Maybe they realized that becoming a famous project is only a detriment to their mission
    - MrGilbert 5y ago
      Someone mailed the maintainer, and received a reply that he currently has "[..] no free time to spend on youtube-dl as I'm busy with work, ongoing renovation and other post-relocation stuff." [1] [1]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29965#issuecomment-922377500 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29965#issuecom...
    - tehwebguy 5y ago
      Not sure if this is something that affects yt-dlp but youtube-dl takes something like 5 - 10 x as long as watching the video for me now.
    - EarlKing 5y ago
      It works only as long as you don't care how long it takes to download a video. youtube-dl has had a problem with bandwidth throttling on Youtube for some time now. yt-dlp does not.
baobabKoodaa 5y ago
Another alternative: I made a tool which allows one-click downloading videos with youtube-dl (no GUI, no command line). Here: https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/one-click-youtube-dl https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/one-click-youtube-dl
EastOfTruth 5y ago
I use yt-dlp [1] ... so far so good. 1. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

jb1991 5y ago

I'm curious what is the reason for a GUI for such a simple utility? The command line for this kind of tool seems like the perfect interface. Just copy a URL, paste it, press enter. No buttons to press, etc.

__warlord__ 5y ago
People have different workflows, for some is easier to have visual aid of how the tool works and what options are available.
Nux 5y ago
It's handy for people who are not comfortable with the command line, no matter how simple it is. In addition it allows one to convert to mp3 etc. The number of people who might want to download something from Youtube & co is significantly larger than that of people comfortable with the cli.
- schoen 5y ago
  I won't criticize someone for making more interfaces for this software, but I like the prospect that more people have been and will be motivated to learn about command line interfaces in order to use powerful software like youtube-dl.
  - beckman466 5y ago
    > I won't criticize > but please stop gatekeeping > motivated to learn about command line interfaces in order to use powerful software many people never get basic tech literacy. i think we’d benefit from not simply assuming others have (or could have) access to the same resources, time and patience that we had. i think you probably mean well but your statement, which sort of implies that people say “I am choosing not to learn the important skill of using the command line!”, just comes across as ignorant and naive to me
    - suction 5y ago
      Tech literacy would help a great deal saving our democracies. Nobody needs to know command line, but to be able to tell if you're on a Russian disinfo website or a legit source of information is also (but not only) a matter of tech literacy, so I think OP is on to something here.

formvoltron 5y ago

youtube now throttling downloads right? or is there a workaround?

arm 5y ago
There are workarounds (detailed very nicely in dirkf’s pull request for youtube-dl): https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184 Pasting the content here for convenience: Since summer 2021, YouTube has started serving media URLs with a query parameter such as …&n=SXiXBH-xzrjeioPN&…. This now appears to be the default behaviour. Unless the value of this parameter is transformed according to an algorithm delivered in the site player JS, the download speed for the URL is throttled to ~50kB/s. Solutions for this include: • implementing a more complete JS interpreter, eg based on PR [jsinterp] Actual JS interpreter¹ #11272; • using an external JS interpreter (PhantomJS, now unmaintained, is used by some extractors); • spoofing the Android or iOS client to acquire unthrottled links, as successfully implemented in yt-dlp². This PR takes a different approach derived from the successful solution used in VLC's youtube.lua (also implemented differently in pytube³). The approach relies on the fact that the challenge algorithm is served in a mini-language within the minified player JS and therefore the specific algorithm can be extracted and executed by interpreting the mini-language without actually running the JS itself. [In parallel with this PR, a separate implementation of this approach was added to yt-dlp⁴.] The implementation of the mini-language interpreter is directly translated from VLC's n_descramble() Lua function⁵. The result sufficiently resembles the original that it should be straightforward to share changes between the two implementations. ―――――― ¹ — https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/11272 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/11272 ² — https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/c888ffb95ab0ab4f4cd1d6c93eda014f80479551 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/c888ffb95ab0ab4f4cd1... ³ — https://github.com/tfdahlin/pytube/blob/bb890af3b271a616bbe1d08abc8c65bac9266b0a/pytube/cipher.py https://github.com/tfdahlin/pytube/blob/bb890af3b271a616bbe1... ⁴ — https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/404f611f1c4aa516fbc4301aa7b8f734ee4bc67b https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/404f611f1c4aa516fbc4... ⁵ — https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/4fb284e5af69aa9ac2100ccbdd3b88debec9987f/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua#L116 https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/4fb284e5af69aa...
rnhmjoj 5y ago

dartharva 5y ago

Electron-based alternative: https://jely2002.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/ https://jely2002.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/

phubbard 5y ago
I built one in Flask, with background downloads and saved state/logs in SQLite. No JS, simple CSS styling with Bootstrap. Cool to see all of these. https://github.com/phubbard/ytdl-web https://github.com/phubbard/ytdl-web

noseratio 5y ago

In other news, the new Google Drive for Windows also uses wxPython as its Desktop GUI framework (wxPython is a Python wrapper for wxWidgets, a cross platform UI C++ library). https://www.google.com/intl/en_au/drive/download/ https://www.google.com/intl/en_au/drive/download/

elAhmo 5y ago

As someone who has been working with Python a lot up to this year, I am wondering has the state of GUI frameworks improved for Python in the recent months/years? If I want to have, lets say, an application that looks (and works) like a native MacOS or Windows application, would I bet able to do that? All of the examples look really odd, with weird buttons and simply not feeling like native apps.

tonyedgecombe 5y ago
wxWidgets does use native controls so should feel like a native app. Sadly this is its only redeeming feature.
- bsenftner 5y ago
  I'm curious way people hate on wxWidgets so much. As a cross platform GUI, it works, and has a better license for developers than QT, and when investigating QT it looked like it requires more than just a library, but QT specific tooling to build things.
  - toyg 5y ago
    > I'm curious way people hate on wxWidgets so much. Because it just looks bad and outdated on most platforms.
    - bsenftner 5y ago
      Which would be a criticism of looking native, because that is all wxWidgets is doing. It's a wrapper for the underlying OS's native GUI.
      - toyg 5y ago
        Yeah but there is native and native. Both Windows and MacOS carry widgets and styles from so many releases, and there is some intelligence involved in picking up the "expected" one with the right style etc. WxWidgets seems to make the wrong choice very often, with the result that the apps look very dated. It's probably possible to make it do the right thing, but other toolkits just do that by default.

raninepaths 5y ago

Any youtube-dl GUI for android? ( other than dvd)

Tmpod 5y ago
NewPipe? https://newpipe.net https://newpipe.net
- raninepaths 5y ago
  newpipe does not support downloading whole playlist

okasaki 5y ago

I made a very simple web UI (single file flask, no JS) for youtube-dl: https://github.com/dvolk/lo2#readme https://github.com/dvolk/lo2#readme

godmode2019 5y ago

I use this https://video-sauce.com https://video-sauce.com it also let's you watch the video if you press the black logo at the bottom. These sites always disappear but this one hasn't so far

jokoon 5y ago

What would be really good, is some way to search a list of "artist - song title" to output a list of youtube video IDs.

Minor49er 5y ago
You could search in your browser and copy the "/watch" URLs out of the results page if you wanted this. What would be the application, though? Do you want to download music videos?
turtlebits 5y ago
Might be less complex to just create one line xPath query as a bookmarklet to get the ID's directly from the search results page.