README.md

ytd

Dekstop app for downloading audio tracks from youtube built with wails & angular

(*) please note this is an alpha version in case of malfunction please open an issue

Install

Download from releases page

PWA

Supported platfroms for now

• Macos (tested on 11.5.x/11.6.x & 12.x apple m1)

Main features:

• check for updates & app update
• clipboard watch (once yt link is copied it will be automatically downloaded, can be disabled)
• run in bg on close (run app in bg even if you closed app window)
• convert webm files to mp3
• system tray with fast settings
• in app player for single tracks and playlists (for now only for offline created playlists)
• Internalization
  • English
  • Polish
  • Italian
• clean and simple UI (I hope ;))
• create offline playlist
  • playback playlist
  • add/remove tracks
  • export to any external devices (pen drive , external hd etc...) or any folder
• Made with 💚 with golang & angular in my spare time

Screenshots

Build from sources

Wails requirements: https://wails.io/docs/gettingstarted/installation

Dev env

Angular

cd frontend && npm install && npm run serve

Wails

wails dev --e "html"

Open tab in chrome (preffered) and go to http://localhost:4200

Extract translation for golang side:

xgotext -exclude "vendor,frontend" -in "/Users/oskarmarciniak/projects/golang/ytd" -out "/Users/oskarmarciniak/projects/golang/ytd/i18n"

Build binaries (Macos only at the moment)

wails build --platform darwin/arm64 --clean --package --production

wails build --platform darwin/amd64 --clean --package --production --upx

(*) upx doesn't work for apple m1 upx/upx#446

Roadmap

• Chrome extension so tracks may be downloaded without user interaction (even without copy yt links)
• Internalization
• Share tracks through public webserver running locally
• Download playlists from yt (exports them, search for playlist, playback playlist etc...)