YouTube Downloader
A GUI application to download videos from YouTube C# Microsoft Visual Studio (2017 - 2015 - 2013)
Windows OS Desktop PC

To download the executable, go to downloads section under releases
The Prerequisites are Required: Loading Preview
Microsoft .NET Framework 4
You also need ffmpeg for DASH videos. Get it here Downloader
This is a GUI version of youtube-dl found. Get it here Downloader
Building
I have used several packages, such as WindowsApiCodePack, Costura.Fordy etc, which NuGet should take care of automatically when building(See here). So clone the repo, and you're good to go.
USAGE
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Copy Youtube/vimeo/dailymotion/any-other-supported-site video url to clipboard
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Open YouTube Downloader.exe
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Select the necessary options
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Click Download
This software is the result of my realization that most people (including me) are just too lazy to use the command-line tool 'youtube-dl'. So I decided to build a GUI for it with only the most bare-bone features (youtube-dl has a ton of features which are not available in my version - maybe they will soon be available :p).
You can download videos from other video sharing sites as well. A huge set of sites are supported. To see the full list of supported sites go here. The advanced options like quality etc. are only applicable to youtube at the moment; soon they will apply to other sites as well.
FFmpeg Builds
FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play. All builds require at least Windows 7. Nightly git builds are licensed as GPL 3.0, and release build are licensed as GPL 3.0 and LGPL 3.0. LGPL 3.0 release builds can be found using the "All Builds" links.
Version | Architecture | Linking |
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4.2.1 | Download Build (.exe & .dll) Windows 32-bit | Shared |
4.2.1 | Download Build (.exe & .dll) Windows 64-bit | Shared |