WOW - 100MB download for Mac!
However, once I installed it, it ran really well. Interface is smooth and nice.
A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
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Re: A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
#62I built my own personal version where it runs in the background and automatically downloads stuff I like (I highly curate my likes) or send to select playlists. Too often I go through my favorites and see deleted videos so I just cooked up something one weekend. I have an entire hard drive dedicated as an offline archive where I can playback at anytime, search the library and it even alerts me if any video or audio I…
I was playing around with something similar a while back.
Re: A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just don't get these kind of comments. This person's javascript knowledge enabled him to develop this multi-platform app, it looks and feels great and does its job. Yes, it uses a lot of memory (140mb by just opening it) but how long does this stay actually open? You download some videos and close it in a few minutes. It's not a persistent use case like a chat client. youtube-dl is a 10 year old project. Where are…
> Where are all the great qt apps for it This is really a valid question (not just for youtube-dl but for chat apps as well)... I guess the answer is : Qt being LGPL and the abundance of front-end webdevs
It is completely possible to sell closed source applications even using QT. ( It is all about how you link your QT libraries )
I think the main reason is abundance of frontend devs and quick to start using Electron.
Re: A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
#64An idea that anyone is free to take: JSON-definable UI for command-line apps. Define checkboxes for flags, inputs for arguments, buttons for commands and file pickers / droppable wells for file input. Allow some customization of layout of these elements. Have in-app "store" to download these JSON definitions, maybe even suggest them based on `which` output. Electron app, obviously.
This would require some sort of open-api type spec but for CLIs. I like this idea. Good luck to anyone taking it up.
Re: A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
#65I built my own personal version where it runs in the background and automatically downloads stuff I like (I highly curate my likes) or send to select playlists. Too often I go through my favorites and see deleted videos so I just cooked up something one weekend. I have an entire hard drive dedicated as an offline archive where I can playback at anytime, search the library and it even alerts me if any video or audio I…
Do you really need Electron for this? I would implement what you describe in a headless Python (which is native to YouTube-dl and where YouTube-dl itself is available as a library) script.
For a frontend dev, it makes sense to use Electron for personal projects of this variety. You don’t need to learn another language, or even another set of tools, you just build the whole thing in-browser and get a shareable UI to boot.
Personally, I’m partial to the command line and to a lesser extent, TUIs, but I certainly understand building with whatever is most convenient and/or fun to the dev…especially on a personal project!
Re: A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
#66An idea that anyone is free to take: JSON-definable UI for command-line apps. Define checkboxes for flags, inputs for arguments, buttons for commands and file pickers / droppable wells for file input. Allow some customization of layout of these elements. Have in-app "store" to download these JSON definitions, maybe even suggest them based on `which` output. Electron app, obviously.
Everything doesn't have to be JSON ;)
Re: A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
So like a modern day VB3 but built on Electron. Would be nice to have!
preferably not electron :)
I get the hate for Electron, but to me, despite the issues, it's not going away.
I think a better approach is to figure out how to make Electron more performant in the various OSes.
I haven't gotten into the internals of Electron, so I'm not the one to reflect on the approach, but seeing some of the improvements that MSFT made with Edge over Chrome in memory usage gives me hope that this is achievable, even if it doesn't happen immediately.
Back in the 1990's we faced a similar thing, where web "apps" were ugly and slow, and not as powerful as the desktop apps that many corporations had developed in C++ or VB or Delphi. Today of course, the situation is much different, and we use web apps all the time. I really truly believe that Electron (or perhaps a successor - like how VS Code superseded Atom) will not go away, and in the future we will be much happier with it.
Re: A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
#68An idea that anyone is free to take: JSON-definable UI for command-line apps. Define checkboxes for flags, inputs for arguments, buttons for commands and file pickers / droppable wells for file input. Allow some customization of layout of these elements. Have in-app "store" to download these JSON definitions, maybe even suggest them based on `which` output. Electron app, obviously.
You have to define the behavour of your UI elements as well as their placement, at which point you're writing a program.
The best language to write a program in is a Turing-complete programming language specially designed for that task, not some cobbled together UI-definition language with ad hoc add-ons to processing.
Re: A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
#69Love the app but somehow it's very slow? I have a 300 Mbit/s connection and it's downloading at 55 kb/s... EDIT: apparently luck plays a part. I stopped the download halfway. Then downloaded anew, and got 80 kb/s. Then canceled and restarted again, and then got 5 Mb/s...
Youtube throttles download speeds.
Re: A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
#70I built my own personal version where it runs in the background and automatically downloads stuff I like (I highly curate my likes) or send to select playlists. Too often I go through my favorites and see deleted videos so I just cooked up something one weekend. I have an entire hard drive dedicated as an offline archive where I can playback at anytime, search the library and it even alerts me if any video or audio I…
Neat! Seeing this I'm considering making a similar project that takes a search and drops the preview pictures. No post-video-watching suggest + no 1 minute video shorts + no clickbaity preview pictures + setting a watch timer or something like that might get me back on youtube.