Install YouTube-DL GUI in Ubuntu. YouTube-DL is a front-end GUI for youtube-dl to download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms. Youtube-dl-gui uses youtube-dl in the backend to download files. Youtube-dl provides a list of extractors to work with each particular site. youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter (2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+), and it is not platform specific.
YouTube-DL GUI Version 4
Version 4 is the latest release of the YouTube-DL GUI application. It brings the following changes:
- New UI (designed by @philipzae)
- Better design overall
- Easier format selection
- Easier save path selection
- Added new functionality (play, delete, move item in queue, reload, pause, etc..)
- New options window (5 tabs instead of 13)
- Removed some of the old options (write description to file, custom format selection, etc..)
- Added new options (-v, –ignore-config, –hls-prefer-native, –no-mtime, etc..)
- Support for new output templates
- Added generic video formats (3gp, mp4, webm, etc..)
- Added Korean translation by @memnoth
- Removed outdated translations
- Post Processing
- Calculate final size of post process files
- Extract final extension after merging process [ffmpeg]
- Extract final extension after recoding process [ffmpeg]
- Setup
- Update setup.py
- Build .MO files during build phase
- Removed unused OSX code from setup.py
- Other
- Removed twodict from utils.py and made it a dep
- Resolved issues (#54, #151, #162, #173, etc..)
- Moved utility scripts & docs to new directories
- Added new dev scripts
- New ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
- Updated README.md
- Added FAQs
- Small fixes
Install YouTube-DL on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install YouTube-DL via WebUpd8 PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt update
sudo apt install youtube-dlg
Install youtube-dl
YouTube-DL is a front-end GUI for youtube-dl to download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms. Users can also install youtube-dl.
To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type:
sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
If you do not have curl, you can alternatively use a recent wget:
sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
Install YouTube-DL GUI in Ubuntu originally posted on Source Digit – Latest Technology, Gadgets & Gizmos.
