mhogomchungu/media-downloader
Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ front end to yt-dlp, youtube-dl, gallery-dl, lux, you-get, svtplay-dl, aria2c, wget and safari books..
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Where it stands
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4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 31 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 52% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a Qt/C++ GUI frontend to multiple CLI tools for downloading online media from various websites.
- Enables easy management of concurrent and batch downloads with support for multiple extensions and preset options.
- Use for downloading playlists and managing subscriptions from supported video streaming sites like YouTube.
- Use for batch downloading media files by importing links individually or from local files with a user-friendly interface.
- Use for integrating multiple downloader tools in one application with multilingual support across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Should you depend on it?
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License
GPL 2.0
Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
Community files
- README: present
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- GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
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From the README
This project is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to CLI multiple CLI-based tools that deal with downloading online media.
yt-dlp CLI tool is the default supported tool and other tools can be added by downloading their extension and a list of supported extensions is managed here.
downloads may cause the host to ban you.
Media Downloader is a GUI front end to yt-dlp, gallery-dl, lux, you-get, svtplay-dl, aria2c, and wget.
To Install these extensins, go to "Configure" tab and then go to "Extensions" sub tab and then click the "Add An Extension" button and then select from the list an extension you want to install.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
342+10
Open issues
14-2
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| The-PR-Agent/pr-agent | 15.1K | +1.5K | 64 | 11 days ago |
| mhogomchungu/media-downloader | 5.1K | — | 49 | 3 days ago |
| Category median | 116.8K | +5.1K | 60 | — |
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