errorflynn/ytdlp-interface

Windows graphical interface for yt-dlp, designed as a simple YouTube downloader

ytdlp-interface's Issues

ok.ru downloads closing the interface

something new started, just in the past week
if i try to start an ok.ru download, the interface closes.
i tried using an older version.
it didn't crash but it wouldn't download anything either.

FFmpeg special version

Hello, thank you very much for this wonderful and amazing software ! juste a question, I wonder if Ytdlp-interface uses the special version of FFmpeg to avoid bugs? because there is a special builds of FFmpeg for yt-dlp to fix some bugs, it will be great if Ytdlp-interface can add and update automatically this special builds of FFmpeg to fix some bugs for example

[Fix AAC HLS streams being truncated mid stream]

[Fix for YouTube's VP9 encodes with non-monotonous DTS]

https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds

Portable Mode

Hello,

First I would like to say that ytdlp-interface turned out to be a well-designed and very pleasant to use GUI fpr yt-dlp, good work, thanks.

As of version 1.4.1 program settings are saved in configuration file (ytdlp-interface.json) in AppData:

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\ytdlp-interface.json

My request- when ytdlp-interface starts it should check its program folder for the configuration file, ytdlp-interface.json, and if it is there (next to the executable, ytdlp-interface.exe), it should use it to load and save settings without re-creating it in AppData.

I suppose an additional useful enhancement might be a new check box in Settings:

• Portable mode

which, if enabled, will save both the configuration file and the downloaded videos in program folder, so nothing will be written outside the program folder. This would be particularly convenient for using the program from external drives on other machines without leaving any traces behind (all data is saved in program folder)

Regards

Possible to integrate SponsorBlock ?

Have you looked into this ? Though its already really, really good.

aria2c integration

yt-dlp can use aria2c as external downloader. The main reason of using aria2c is download thread parallelization. Can you please add detecting aria2c on %PATH% (or selecting manually in Settings) and corresponding changes in UI:

• Checkbox "Use aria2c"
• Integer input "Download threads count"

Command with this options looks like: yt-dlp --external-downloader "aria2c" --external-downloader-args "-j 8" ...

Special characters in video title causes program to crash

Trying to download a video with for example é or korean/japanese characters, results in the program stuttering then crashing.

make update checks optional

I would prefer if the app didn't check for updates. Can you make it optional (a checkbox or json setting)?

Wait for video

Hi this issue may have been addressed elsewhere but I cant seem to find any information on it.
Since the queue function was added in V1.6 I no longer seem to be able to use the --wait-for-video function in the custom arguments that I could use on older versions such as V1.5.1.
I now get the error "yt-dlp failed to get info" and can no longer use current versions to wait for videos that are scheduled to go live.

More than 1 Video at a time?

Ist there a way to download more than 1 video at a time?

Clipping support

Would it be possible to allow us to choice a starting timestamp and an ending timestamp so we can clip parts of videos down the the frame.

Issues when downloading complete YT channel

Hi, I noticed some issues when downloading a complete YT channel like

https://www.youtube.com/@solidbugs

Overall the application seems to work and download all videos for the channel.
But the following issues occurred while downloading:

1. At the beginning the Media title was empty
2. Some vids later the Media title was showing always the first and second maybe third video title but after completing the download the Media Title did not update and kept showing the first video titles
3. I noticed the Status went up to +1000% in a case

Hopefuly you can reproduce the issues...

UI Enhancement Suggestion: Collapse Expand Button for Options

As I almost never change the download options, I believe the UI could be improved by adding an button to toggle (collapse/expand) the download options. I think when starting collapsed the UI would take up less place.

Extra data on queue table?

Hi, great GUI and thanks for providing it on scoop as well.

I am trying a few other GUIs and one thing I feel missing is being able to see what video and audio is selected by yt-dlp by default. In the queue table, is it possible to show extra data such as the video/audio format and size? Not sure if this data is available yet, or only when you actually start downloading.

My use case is that while I do prefer a certain default format, sometimes I change my mind based on seeing the format and sizes. For example, I might prefer default 4k video size, but if the file size is too big, I might settle for 1440p instead. Similarly I might prefer webm, but see that it's not available, I might just decide to not download it at all.

I think it'd be a lot more convenient this way instead of clicking select formats for each item. The only issue is whether it takes up too much column space if you're not fullscreened. Maybe an idea is to show an icon for the video and audio and when you hover over them it shows the text. Similarly this could be done for the website showing a favicon to save space?

Any thoughts on this? Thanks.

'Max concurrent downloads' setting being ignored

all the items in the queue are being downloaded at once even though I have set 'Max concurrent downloads' to 1

Sponsor Block Support

Please enable sponsor block support to download videos without sponsor sections

Unable to download from Arte

Hi !

Trying to downlaod a film on Arte leaves me with

ERROR: [ArteTV] 063571-000-A: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>);

I wasn't able to download a film with the program when I could some days ago. I attempted to download this one https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/063571-000-A/la-loi-du-marche/ (it won't be available tomorrow so of course it'll give a 404 but until then it was available but yt-dlp can't dl it.

I don't know if I use the ticket tool correctly, it's my first time.

Thank you and have a nice day !

indicate more clearly that an A/V format is selected (2.0)

In 1.9.2 it was pretty obvious whether an audio or video format of an item is selected or not.
But in 2.0 this isn't as clear. The default formats have their own text color and background, giving the illusion of being selected. Well, it confused me for a moment.

A checkbox column on the left would surely clear this confusion. But maybe a different kind of highlighting could work too.

How do i use nvenc to encode video after download instead of my CPU encoding ?

Feature request: resumable list of selected playlist items ?

Congrats for the new version, its a pleasure to work with.
Just one thing sometimes I'm missing:
A resumable list of selected playlist items could be fine.

At the moment after having selected a number of items of a long playlist
and then (for whatever reasons) have to interrupt doing this
and shutdown ytdlp-interface,
this selection seems to be not documented and not resumable.

In ytdlp-interface.json the URL of the playlist is found,

but not the selection of items.

When resuming, therefore the entire playlist is downloaded,
if not having redone the whole selection process before.

In such cases a resumable list of selected playlist items could be very helpful.
Thank you very much.

Any change to download from other site other than YouTube?

Hi,

I've just come across this repo - Excellent BTW!

yt-dlp can download from other types of sites, however, when trying with your app is says 'not a valid link'...

Any chance this can be used for other types of site?

feature request: queueing

replace the output argument

Hello,

I wanted to download a playlist, and because they were a lot of videos, i wanted to add an index at the beginning of the filename like this ;

-o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"

But this doesn't work because there is already one "-o" for the destination folder. Is it possible to do something about it ?

Thank you for your works !

Bets regards

Some issues about not being able to open and crashing.

Some issues about not being able to open and crashing.

? Output template affects downloading single videos ? but not playlist items ...

Thank you very much for the info!
So I could do some (a lot of ...) experimenting
and some questions occurred ...

Preface
Downloading e.g. this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jdJOo1i8Hk
was no problem with the default output template,
but failed for me using my (admittedly a little bit special) one.

[ Remark:
NB: In the following sometimes then '#'-character is used,
this only refers to numbered items in the download parameters,

it does not refer to any 'feature request: #n',
only I don't know how to de-highlight and de-link these ! ]

---

What makes things interesting:
In the command line window it is downloaded without any problem,
even with my possibly a bit unusual output template like

"C:\Users\av\Downloads\ErrorFlynn` - ytdlp-interface\yt-dlp.exe" -S "res:1080,vext:mp4,aext:m4a,fps" --trim-filenames 100 -P E:\YT -o "@ %(channel)s%(playlist_title& in: |)s%(playlist_title|)s%(playlist_index& #|)s%(playlist_index|)d '%(title)s%(alt_title& ~ |)s%(alt_title|)s' - %(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s %(location& |)s%(location|)s %(duration>%Hh%Mm%Ss )s%(resolution)s id=%(id)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jdJOo1i8Hk

the file was downloaded perfectly.

---

The same parameters put into ytdlp-interface

make the queue show:
Website: error_______Media title: yt-dlp failed to get info (see output)_______Status: error

Output:
GUI: yt-dlp is unable to process queue item #1 (output below) . . . . . . . [ concerning the '# 1' plz see the remark at the top ]
ERROR: Fixed output name but more than one file to download: @

[ Remark: The shown '@' is only the first character of the output template,
exchanging this by any other doesn't change the behaviour ... ,

possibly the elements of the output template are interpreted as URLs ? ]

After despite the error message clicking the 'Start download' button
ytdlp-interface starts working,

output shows now:
[GUI] executing command line: "C:\Users\av\Downloads\ErrorFlynn - ytdlp-interface\yt-dlp.exe" -S "res:1080,vext:mp4,aext:m4a,fps" --trim-filenames 100 -P E:\YT -o "@ %(channel)s%(playlist_title& in: |)s%(playlist_title|)s%(playlist_index& #|)s%(playlist_index|)d '%(title)s%(alt_title& ~ |)s%(alt_title|)s' - %(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s %(location& |)s%(location|)s %(duration>%Hh%Mm%Ss )s%(resolution)s id=%(id)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jdJOo1i8Hk

[ Remark: This seems to be exactly, what I had tested on the command line successfully ?
Do I miss something? ]

[ continued ... ]
Usage: yt-dlp.exe [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
yt-dlp.exe: error: invalid after_move print to file filename "%(channel)s%(playlist_title&": incomplete format key
Usage: yt-dlp.exe [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
yt-dlp.exe: error: invalid after_move print to file filename "%(channel)s%(playlist_title&": incomplete format key
[GUI] yt-dlp.exe process has exited

and queuing shows:
Website: error_______Media title: yt-dlp failed to get info (see output)_______Status: done

subsequently in ytdlp-interface.json
"unfinished_queue_items": [],

But no file has been downloaded.

---

And, maybe even more interesting:

With exactly the same parameters in ytdlp-interface left unchanged, but

using the playlist-URL
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrlXp3PlwgRI5OLvm3P91LJr1CYnO5TRD
and selecting in the playlist item #12, . . . . . . . [ concerning the '# 12' plz see the remark at the top ]

everything works fine!

Output:
[GUI] executing command line: "C:\Users\av\Downloads\ErrorFlynn - ytdlp-interface\yt-dlp.exe" -S "res:1080,vext:mp4,aext:m4a,fps" --trim-filenames 100 -P E:\YT -o "@ %(channel)s%(playlist_title& in: |)s%(playlist_title|)s%(playlist_index& #|)s%(playlist_index|)d '%(title)s%(alt_title& ~ |)s%(alt_title|)s' - %(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s %(location& |)s%(location|)s %(duration>%Hh%Mm%Ss )s%(resolution)s id=%(id)s.%(ext)s" -I 12 --compat-options no-youtube-unavailable-videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrlXp3PlwgRI5OLvm3P91LJr1CYnO5TRD

[youtube:tab] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrlXp3PlwgRI5OLvm3P91LJr1CYnO5TRD
[youtube:tab] PLrlXp3PlwgRI5OLvm3P91LJr1CYnO5TRD: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: All Episodes - 2-Stroke Carburetor Learning
[youtube:tab] Playlist All Episodes - 2-Stroke Carburetor Learning: Downloading 1 items of 60
[download] Downloading item 1 of 1
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jdJOo1i8Hk
[youtube] 0jdJOo1i8Hk: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 0jdJOo1i8Hk: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] 0jdJOo1i8Hk: Downloading MPD manifest
[info] 0jdJOo1i8Hk: Downloading 1 format(s): 135-dash+140
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 15
[download] Destination: E:\YT@ TheRepairSpecialist in All Episodes - 2-Stroke Carburetor Learning #12 'Episode 12 Two-Stroke .' - 2016-10-09 00h01m16s 640x480 id=0jdJOo1i8Hk.f135-dash.mp4
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 1
[download] Destination: E:\YT@ TheRepairSpecialist in All Episodes - 2-Stroke Carburetor Learning #12 'Episode 12 Two-Stroke .' - 2016-10-09 00h01m16s 640x480 id=0jdJOo1i8Hk.f140.m4a
[Merger] Merging formats into "E:\YT@ TheRepairSpecialist in All Episodes - 2-Stroke Carburetor Learning #12 'Episode 12 Two-Stroke .' - 2016-10-09 00h01m16s 640x480 id=0jdJOo1i8Hk.mp4"
Deleting original file E:\YT@ TheRepairSpecialist in All Episodes - 2-Stroke Carburetor Learning #12 'Episode 12 Two-Stroke .' - 2016-10-09 00h01m16s 640x480 id=0jdJOo1i8Hk.f140.m4a (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file E:\YT@ TheRepairSpecialist in All Episodes - 2-Stroke Carburetor Learning #12 'Episode 12 Two-Stroke .' - 2016-10-09 00h01m16s 640x480 id=0jdJOo1i8Hk.f135-dash.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
[download] Finished downloading playlist: All Episodes - 2-Stroke Carburetor Learning
[GUI] yt-dlp.exe process has exited

Queue:
Website: youtube.com_______Media title: [playlist] All Episodes - 2-Stroke Carburetor learning_______Status: done

File downloaded perfectly.

---

Probably I made some mistake, but have no idea, which one(s) ...
What can I do to make it work on the single URL as perfectly as on the playlist URL item # 12,
using my output template ?

Keeping download path info

One more issue I wold like to report.
Every time I run the program, I have to choose the folder for downloading a file. Would it be possible to keep that path for the next time and make drop-down list? No need to use registry, it could be as simple as open a text file with downloading folders history with at least one folder path in it.
However, I would probably make some round number, like 8 or 16 paths :-)

Thanks.

崩溃了 gif

crash on pressing youtube.com format selection

Main program not working

Version 1.5.1 of the release cannot resolve the video after updating ffmpeg and yt-dlp. After clicking format selection, the software automatically exits, it may crash.

lux and streamlink

Hello, it will be great if our beloved Ytdlp-Interface adds support for lux which is fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go and support for the awesome streamlink because some videos are huge and bulky so it's annoying and a waste of time to wait for the end of download but with streamlink, you can watch the video directly without waiting for the download but the problem is that it's in the command line and can be difficult to use for newbies......

https://github.com/iawia002/lux

https://streamlink.github.io/

Feature Request File creation time.

Can a file creation time button be added here or have an option to make the file creation time when the video was uploaded to youtube?

Nowhere does it say it's x64 only

Cannot use own output in custom arguments

It looks like no matter what custom arguments I use, I mean no matter what -o name is manually set as a custom argument, your app will ignore any custom output set in favor of default %(title)s.%(ext)s.

Can you make ytdlp-interface ignore the default output name if there's a custom argument set for the output name? 🤔

Default to selected formats, and playlists

I was downloading a playlist of Youtube videos and there were a couple of small annoyances.

1. The pasted playlist link was not extracted to a list of individual items on the queue. It would be useful if it did that (maybe with a collapsible UI), also to have the ability to select the desired A/V formats for individual items (see point 2).

2. After adding each video separately, I had to click "Select formats" and then "Use the selected format(s)" for each item, because it always defaulted to "Let yt-dlp choose the best formats".
   The formats that I selected for the previous video were remembered for the next one, but they were not used. Maybe a setting to make "selected formats" the default would solve this.

Oh and thank you for making this. It's a nice app.

yt-dlp.exe: error: You must provide at least one URL.

Hello,

In ytdlp-interface 1.6.2 whatever I try to download I get:

Usage: yt-dlp.exe [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

yt-dlp.exe: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type yt-dlp --help to see a list of all options.

Usage: yt-dlp.exe [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
yt-dlp.exe: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type yt-dlp --help to see a list of all options.

[GUI] yt-dlp.exe process has exited

Example command line in output:

[GUI] executing command line: "C:\UT\Apps\ytdlp-interface\yt-dlp.exe" -S "res:1080,vext:mp4,aext:m4a,fps" --windows-filenames --no-mtime -P "D:\" -o %(title)s.%(ext)s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1t_8iRFVs4

Am I doing something wrong? In 1.5.1 it was working just fine.

Auto number to playlist items

It is a feature request!

If possible please add the option to give index to the playlist video.

automatic close the app after 2 seconds

the latest v1.9, will close itself automaticlly after 2 seconds from openning it, in Windows 10 22H2.

? Output-Window content printed to logfile.txt for debugging ?

Discussed in #45

^{Originally posted by altadr March 28, 2023}
(How) Can Output-Window content be printed to logfile.txt for debugging purposes?
By using a custom argument?
Any help appreciated,
thank you very much

Feature request: Add the option to insert metadata to downloaded file

As of current, the program does not have any visible check for the "--add-metadata" command argument, and thus has to be manually added for all links in the download queue through the "Each item in the queue has its own download options" check and then inserting the argument in the Custom arguments space. Adding the option would be a good Quality of Life feature to remove unnecessary work that can be automated

UI Enhancement Request: Open File / Open Folder in context menu

After downloading a video I often like to watch (open) the file/folder.
Please add such commands in the right mouse context menu.

Dash Video

Program has problems with DASH Video. Doesn't download Video and Audio.
Please add the command for Ffmpeg in the program. Example:

yt-dlp --downloader ffmpeg "https://sdt-epix13-44.tvp.pl/token/video/vod/69057678/20230411/3000535500/44546e57-2f23-4742-af8e-74c4d40feb89/video.ism/video-fmp4.m3u8"

Are 8k videos supported?

I'm trying to download 8k video which seemed to work in the previous version. In the latest version I haven't been able to get it working, I have -f bv+ba in my custom arguments, also tried manually selecting the 8k format.

EDIT:
Nevermind, I got it working. To download 8k, I actually need to remove the custom arguments. Then manually selecting 8k works, but I usually download with the metadata as well.

So to get it working with metadata I download the 8k without any custom arguments, then trigger the download again with the metadata argument (it doesn't redownload the video and just appends the metadata).

N_m3u8DL-CLI

Hello, Hello, since Ytdlp-Interface is aN amazing a graphical interface of command line tools , it well be great if our beloved Ytdlp-Interface add support for m3u8 with adding support for this tool updated recently N_m3u8DL-CLI :

https://github.com/nilaoda/N_m3u8DL-CLI

Add support for `ytdl-patched`

https://github.com/ytdl-patched/ytdl-patched

Audio preset and download with one click

Hello, it will be great please if there an option preset to choose by default to download the worst audio quality for a faster download, and possiblity to choosing the native audio quality "opus" or "m4a" , I use another program to automatically download the worst audio quality of youtube videos and I always get the audio quality with "opus" format with 64kbps bitrate or 48kbps bitrate and we would like to have the worst audio quality because I put these audios in my smaprtphone using the "snapdrop.net" sharing site and I would like to preserve the battery of smartphone by using the most worst audio quality, it will be great to add the "opus" 64kb/s audio format or "m4a" audio format for the "worstaudio" preset!

Please I have an important suggestion, it will be great to make the button "download" next to the "paste from clipboard" button for more speed, and also it will be amazing to merge and unify the "paste from clipboard" and "download" buttons into a single button with memorization of the "worstaudio" preset, so we can download audio or video just by clicking on a one and only unified button and we no longer need anymore to click on 2 distant buttons "paste from clip board" and "Download"!

Thank you so much for this wonderful software jewel of technology :)

Save and Restore UI Position

please save and restore the window position when closing and re-starting the app.
atm, the window is always started centered.

"error yt-dlp failed to get info (see output)" with any YouTube URL

GUI: yt-dlp is unable to process queue item #1 (output below)


Usage: yt-dlp.exe [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

yt-dlp.exe: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type yt-dlp --help to see a list of all options.

I can download the videos but I can't choose video and audio streams due to this error

Choosing custom set of video and audio tracks

First of all, thanks for your program for lazy downloaders 👍
Some videos on Youtube have a bunch of downloadable video and audio tracks.
This one, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1La4QzGeaaQ&t=34s&ab_channel=Jacob%2BKatieSchwarz
By default when you choose desired resolution the program downloads the video track with maxumum bitrate for that resolution and audio with the maximal bitrate. And automatically packs those tracks to one MKV container. However, if I want another videotrack from the list (particullary for this video - 4k with no HDR), it does not download audio track for me and, therefore, does not pack them in into a conainer.
I'm pretty sure it can be done form CLI :), but would like to do it just by choosing custom set of tracks.
Would it be possible to do?
Thanks.

Youtube video causes a crash when getting metadata

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ6tidrzxqM

Gets added to the queue, but soon crashed when trying to get metadata.

Calling yt-dlp from the command-line works with no issues.

Windows 10 64 bit, latest versions of everything.

Doesnt download video, only audio

I got a problem. Everytime i want to download a video. It doesnt matter which one, it downloads the video and audio. Then it erases the video permantly and automatic! All i get is the audio. Same thing when i let ytdlp choose the best format.

Shared FFmpeg builds

Please, use shared FFmpeg builds. Instead of 2 files 100 MB each (200 MB total), you may reduce unpacked FFmpeg size to 100 MB.