aandrew-me/ytDownloader
Desktop app to download audio/video from hundreds of sites
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 71 days ago, with 22 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #1 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 5, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a modern desktop app to download audio and video from hundreds of websites with a graphical user interface.
- Offers fast downloads, multi-platform support, hardware-accelerated video compression, and advanced options without ads or trackers.
- Use for downloading and compressing videos from social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram on Linux, Windows, or macOS.
- Use for managing and downloading entire playlists with subtitle support for offline viewing or archiving.
- Use for integrating a user-friendly video downloader into workflows requiring multiple themes and localization in various languages.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
GPL 3.0
Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
A modern GUI video and audio downloader supporting hundreds of sites
✅ Supports hundreds of sites including Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter and so on.
✅ Video Compressor with Hardware Acceleration
✅ Advanced options like Range Selection, Subtitles
✅ Available on Linux, Windows & macOS
✅ Fast download speeds
✅ And of-course no trackers or ads
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
939+41
Open issues
26-8
Compared with peers in iOS
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 21.4K | +8.7K | 75 | 5 days ago |
| anomalyco/hex | 6.2K | +1.9K | 75 | 8 days ago |
| nightly-labs/openbot | 6.9K | +1.6K | 75 | today |
| rustdesk/rustdesk | 128.9K | +859 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| crmne/spotifast | 10.2K | +524 | 75 | 7 days ago |
| aandrew-me/ytDownloader | 10.6K | — | 37 | 71 days ago |
| Category median | 10.2K | +1.6K | 75 | — |
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