media-downloader vs ytdl-gui

media-downloader

Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ front end to yt-dlp, youtube-dl, gallery-dl, lux, you-get, svtplay-dl, aria2c, wget and safari books.. (by mhogomchungu)

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ytdl-gui

A simple-to-use, cross-platform graphical interface for youtube-dl. (by JaGoLi)

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media-downloader		ytdl-gui
	Project
96	Mentions	10
1,222	Stars	248
-	Growth	-
9.6	Activity	4.5
7 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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media-downloader

Posts with mentions or reviews of media-downloader. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

mediadownloader webm to mp4?
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 3 Oct 2023

Just started using mediadownloader (https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader) to download youtube playlists. Works well except downloaded videos are in webm. How to download/convert to mp4?
Currently using Media Downloader to backup my entire YouTube channel. What about metadata?
1 project | /r/DataHoarder | 11 Jul 2023

I am currently using Media Downloader to backup my entire YouTube channel. The program does pretty much everything I need but two things: I would also like to extrapolate the Metadata (video descriptions, tags, etc...) for each video I download.
How download YT Membership Videos
7 projects | /r/youtubedl | 10 Jul 2023
YT-DLG : How to allow unlimited parallel downloads ?
2 projects | /r/youtubedl | 7 Jul 2023

Try Media Downloader. The default is 4 concurrent downloads but you can change it to as many as you want in the configure tab.
Hit or miss on kids entertainment
1 project | /r/preppers | 2 Jul 2023

When we replace our phones, we reset the old ones and turn them into kid phones. I will save offline copies of different YouTube videos, movies, etc. for local playback.
YouTube download tool
3 projects | /r/PiracyArchive | 20 Jun 2023
There's Tube Converter for GNOME... but there's any QT YouTube Video Downloader/yt-dl GUI for KDE Plasma?
1 project | /r/kde | 31 May 2023

Media Downloader: https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader
YT Downloader
8 projects | /r/firefox | 30 May 2023
Free Youtube Playlist Downloader?
4 projects | /r/Piracy | 9 May 2023
Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ front end to youtube-dl
1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 5 May 2023

ytdl-gui

Posts with mentions or reviews of ytdl-gui. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-30.

Installed this program (youtubedl-gui) but the window looks like this and it cannot be maxed or resized. Any ideas?
2 projects | /r/pop_os | 30 May 2023

in widget class "QMainWindow" from (https://github.com/JaGoLi/ytdl-gui/blob/master/src/ytdl.ui) and rebuild it, then it might work fine
Linux download managers?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 1 May 2023
Having a GUI for ytdlp
2 projects | /r/youtubedl | 1 Sep 2022
Need a video downloader GUI for manjaro kde
4 projects | /r/ManjaroLinux | 10 Jul 2022

The package youtubedl-gui from JaGoLi can be found in the AUR. It works for me.
Youtubedl-gui: version 3.0
4 projects | /r/linux | 30 Aug 2021
Youtubedl-gui Version 3.0: A Handful of Nice Improvements.
1 project | /r/linux | 30 Aug 2021
yt-dlp: A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
10 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 26 Aug 2021

https://github.com/JaGoLi/ytdl-gui (Linux)
Youtubedl-gui Version 2.5: Stability fixes, new codec option, and new icon
2 projects | /r/linux | 3 May 2021
Rule
1 project | /r/196 | 17 Jan 2021

You can use the cross-platform CLU youtube-dl instead, and I think there are Chrome/Firefox extensions. Also a graphical application for Linux
A simple-to-use graphical interface for youtube-dl. Look at comment for install instructions
2 projects | /r/linux | 16 Jan 2021

Here is the github for the source: https://github.com/JaGoLi/ytdl-gui

What are some alternatives?

When comparing media-downloader and ytdl-gui you can also consider the following projects:

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

ytfzf - A posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. (Without API)

gallery-dl - Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites

youtube-dl-gui - A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js

tartube - A GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3

aria2 - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

yt-dlp-gui - simple yt-dlp gui

MeTube - Self-hosted YouTube downloader (web UI for youtube-dl / yt-dlp)

2nd-keyboard - ALL of Taran's scripts - not just for the 2nd keyboard.