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gallery-dl
Discontinued Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites
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youtube-dl-gui
A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython. (by oleksis)
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youtube-dl-gui
Open Video Downloader - A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Rust with Tauri and Vue + Typescript. (by jely2002)
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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.
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tartube
A GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3
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youtube-dl-gui
Download/Convert videos from websites without needing to learn command line (by murrty)
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youtube-dl-gui
A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js (by StefanLobbenmeier)
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newsboat_video_downloader
I sure love the mix of newsboat+mpv+youtube-dl to watch videos from my favourite creators directly from my command line. But sometimes I want to download them beforehand and have them sorted into different folders. Here is the script to do exactly that.
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YouTube downloaders (and how Google silenced the press)
Didn't know about https://stacher.io/, will take a look.
On my favorites YouTube downloaders with UI, I have:
Varia https://giantpinkrobots.github.io/varia/
Media Downloader https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader/
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mediadownloader webm to mp4?
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?
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Currently using Media Downloader to backup my entire YouTube channel. What about metadata?
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.
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YT-DLG : How to allow unlimited parallel downloads ?
Try Media Downloader. The default is 4 concurrent downloads but you can change it to as many as you want in the configure tab.
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Hit or miss on kids entertainment
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.
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There's Tube Converter for GNOME... but there's any QT YouTube Video Downloader/yt-dl GUI for KDE Plasma?
Media Downloader: https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader
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- Free Youtube Playlist Downloader?
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mhogomchungu/media-downloader is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of media-downloader is C++.
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