echteralsfake / vidfetch

A Cross-Platform YouTube Downloader up to 8k resolution

Development Status v1.0

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Supported Platforms
• Features
• Legal Information
• Building from Source
• FFMPEG
• Credits
• License

What is VidFetch?

VidFetch is a YouTube downloader based on the Pytube API. It has a graphical User Interface made with PySide6, it supports high-resolution videos, multiple codecs and threaded downloads. (More is coming in the future!)

Supported Platforms

• Windows
• Linux
• Android (CLI - Linux emulator) . Native apk is in development.
• iOS (iSH - Alpine Linux emulator)
• (Theoretically every system with Linux and a Terminal)

Features

• Download up to 8K resolution
• Threaded downloads for better optimization
• Downloading videos from a playlist / file (with choices)
• Support for different codecs (AAC, MP3: more coming soon)

Legal Information

This software comes with no liability for the owner. You are responsible for your actions. YouTube can sue you, and you can get in a lot of trouble for downloading copyright protected videos! If that happens, I don't care.

Building from Source

ffmpeg

FFMPEG is a media encoder / decoder tool used in all heavy applications out there. VidFetch uses it to concat audio and video together and convert to different codecs.

Credits

• Project API: Pytube
• Hue Shift : Hue Shift
• tqdm : tqdm
• ffmpeg : ffmpeg
• ffmpeg-progress-yield: ffmpeg-progress-yield

ChatGPT helped me with coding (especially mathematical stuff like the progressbar)

License

Vid Fetch is licensed under the GPL v3 License

Copyright (c) 2023 EchterAlsFake | Johannes Habel

See: GPLv3