ytdl-gui VS youtube-dl

Compare ytdl-gui vs youtube-dl and see what are their differences.

ytdl-gui

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

youtube-dl

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites (by ytdl-org)
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ytdl-gui youtube-dl
10 1,082
248 128,460
- 0.9%
4.5 8.5
over 2 years ago 9 days ago
C++ Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only The Unlicense
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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.

youtube-dl

Posts with mentions or reviews of youtube-dl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ytdl-gui and youtube-dl you can also consider the following projects:

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

spotify-downloader - Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

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

pytube - A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.

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

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..

you-get - :arrow_double_down: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

udemy-dl - A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for personal offline use.

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

twitch-dl - CLI tool for downloading videos from Twitch.