keelerm84 / youtube-dl-gui

A C++ GUI interface to the CL tool youtube-dl

Name

youtube-dl-gui

Description

youtube-dl is an excellent command-line program that allows downloading videos from YouTube. This project overlays that amazing functionality with a simple GUI interface to make video retrieval easier for those not comfortable with the command line. If this is you, I highly suggest you invest the time to learn the CL. In the meantime, I hope this app helps.

If you prefer a Python implementation, I suggest you look into the Python GUI version, off of which this project is based.

Development

Requirements

To build this application, you must have the Qt Project 4.6+ installed on your system, as well as cmake, and of course the original youtube-dl project should be installed and in your path.

This program is tested with youtube-dl version 2014.01.03. Earlier versions may work but are untested and officially unsupported.

Building

Follow the standard steps to building any cmake project.

git clone https://github.com/keelerm84/youtube-dl-gui
cd youtube-dl-gui/build
cmake ..
make

Bugs

Bugs and suggestions should be reported at https://github.com/keelerm84/youtube-dl-gui.

youtube-dl-gui's Issues

Add handling for playlists

It would be great to be able to add a playlist url and have all the videos in that playlist downloaded.

Binary packages

Hi,

I really like this app (include things like clear code) and I find it very useful. I was thinking about some binary packages for easier distribution.

I tried to write cpack into cmake yesterday... and its works! For example for Linux RPM everything necessary is to append these lines to CmakeLists.txt:

#
# Generate a distributin package
#

INCLUDE(CPack)

install(TARGETS
      youtube-dl-gui
      RUNTIME DESTINATION bin
      PERMISSIONS OWNER_READ OWNER_WRITE OWNER_EXECUTE GROUP_READ GROUP_EXECUTE WORLD_READ WORLD_EXECUTE SETUID
)

# General
SET( CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME "youtube-dl-gui" )
SET( CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION "0.9" )
SET( CPACK_PACKAGE_CONTACT "[email protected]" )
SET( CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY "QT frontend to youtube-dl." )

# RPM
SET( CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_REQUIRES "youtube-dl" )
SET( CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_GROUP "Applications/Internet" )

Then you run cpack -G RPM instead make, see Cpack doc.

With DEB package I have some issue yet.

Are you interested in implementing these features? I can prepare
pull request if you are interested. Or we can work on it together. There are questions like where to upload packages (see). Maybe the way is github pages.

Yyou

suggested improvements

I've just moved from windows to linux and was looking for a replacement to YTD and your GUI seemed to be the only one around worth looking at. So i was able to compile youtube-dl-gui on linux mint 13 and was happy with your GUI and wanted to suggest these improvements.

1] Alternative Name - there is already another project that uses the same executable name < https://launchpad.net/gui-youtube-dl >, so maybe changing it to youtube-dl-gui2 or youtube-dl-gui-keeler.

2] Default Download Folder - I think the default download folder should be set to ~/Downloads and not ~/Music. Alternatively have in preferences default video and default audio folders.

3] Video Quality - when i use youtube-dl from the commandline, the most important thing for me is the video quality, so possibly have a dropdown menu between the 'video only' drop down and 'add' button. For me the most important formats are 720x1280.mp4 (22), 360x640.mp4 (18) and 240x400.flv (5). Alternatively, once a url is loaded into the list, then the list of formats can be pulled with youtube-dl -F url and can be put into the video format drop down. Alternatively, list flv in the 'video format' drop down list.

4] Progress Bar - youtube-dl outputs a good amount of info from its --write-info-json file but unfortunately it doesnt specify the file size, but using the json 'url' value you can send a HEAD http request which will result in the file's size found in 'Content-Length'. With this value, you can check the file size against the file youtube-dl is downloading to give a progress report.

5] Pausing Download - if it is possible to cancel youtube-dl's execution, then it would be possible to resume its execution with youtube-dl's '--continue' argument.

6] Output Filename - In the preferences, allow a user to specify what the output filename format.

7] Precompiled binaries - i see your already looking into it in issue #1 and hope they come soon.

8] Terminal Output - i would like to see the console commands your outputting, so i could suggest some improvements.

program no longer working with youtube-dl 2014.01.05

i upgraded to the latest youtube-dl from the webupd8 ppa and all videos no longer download with this new version. I then downgraded to 2013.12.17 and it working again.