🎞⬇ Cube YouTube Downloader - youtube-dl-wpf

A simple GUI wrapper for youtube-dl. A ported cross-platform version is available as youtube-dl-avalonia.

Features

• Toggle between 🎨 system color mode, 🌃 dark mode, and 🔆 light mode.
• Update youtube-dl on startup.
• List available formats.
• Override video and audio formats.
• Toggle metadata embedding.
• Toggle thumbnail and subtitles embedding.
• Toggle downloading a single video or the whole playlist.
• Custom download path.
• Custom ffmpeg and youtube-dl path.
• Custom proxy support.

Usage

1. Download the pre-built binary or build it from source.
2. Download youtube-dl from the upstream. Optionally but recommended, get ffmpeg either by building from source or downloading pre-built binaries for Windows.
3. Make sure you have .NET Core 3.1 Runtime installed to run our app. The upstream youtube-dl binary requires MSVC++ 2010 runtime.
4. Run youtube-dl-wpf.exe. Open the left drawer and go to Settings. Set the path to youtube-dl and ffmpeg.
5. Go back to the home tab. Paste a URL and start downloading! 🚀

F.A.Q.

• Q: The Download button is grayed out and I can't click it!

• A: youtube-dl-wpf is a simple GUI wrapper. It doesn't embed any downloader in it. You have to download youtube-dl from the upstream. The ffmpeg binary is required by youtube-dl when downloading and merging separate video and audio tracks, which is the case for any video resolution higher than 360p.

• Q: Why can't I specify custom container and custom format at the same time?

• A: Currently youtube-dl's format matching algorithm doesn't handle this very well. And I don't want to see workarounds for it in my code. So it is blocked intentionally to prevent issues.

• Q: How can I use a proxy to download?

• A: Leave the proxy field empty to use system proxy settings. Otherwise the format is similar to how curl accepts proxy strings. Examples are, socks5://localhost:1080/, http://localhost:8080/. Currently the upstream doesn't accept socks5h protocol and treat socks5 as socks5h by always resolving the hostname using the proxy. This is tracked in this issue.

• Q: Downloading the whole playlist doesn't work!

• A: It's an upstream bug, just like many other issues you might discover. There's nothing I can do. Just report the bug to the upstream.

Known Issues

• 🎉 No known issues!

To-Do

• v2.0 - The Parallel Update: download management and download queue for parallel downloads.

Build

• IDE: Visual Studio 2019
• Language: C# 8.0
• SDK: .NET Core 3.1

Build Steps

1. Clone the repository recursively.

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/database64128/youtube-dl-wpf.git

2. Open the repository in VS2019, switch to the Release configuration, and build the solution.

License

• youtube-dl-wpf is licensed under GPLv3.
• youtube-dl is licensed under The Unlicense.
• Material Design Themes is licensed under MIT.
• PeanutButter.TinyEventAggregator is licensed under BSD-3-Clause License.
• Roboto Mono is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
• ReactiveUI is licensed under MIT.

© 2021 database64128