YouTube Downloader

Fast, high quality YouTube downloads.

YouTube Downloader is a self-hosted application for downloading YouTube videos with a variety of formats and configurable options available.

Features

• Search YouTube directly using search terms or input direct video URL.
• Submit list of URLs for batch downloading.
• Concurrently download and process many videos at once.
• Configurable audio download formats (AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, OPUS, WAV).
• Configurable video download formats (AVI, FLV, MKV, MOV, MP4, WEBM).
• Configurable quality options (best, worst).
• Configurable options to automatically embed video metadata, thumbnails, and subtitles.

Developer Guide

Please refer to the contributing guide for how to install the project for development purposes.

Monorepo structure

Apps

• api: An API developed using Python with FastAPI and yt-dlp.
• web: A web application developed using SvelteKit.

Packages

• client: An API client generated using TypeScript with openapi-ts.
• ui: A UI library developed using Svelte and shadcn-svelte.