YouTube Downloader
A simple, graphical front-end for ‘yt-dlp’. Download videos from YouTube and hundreds of other video hosting sites. You can apply some backgrounds, untick ‘Smart Filter’ and see the identical results you’d see running from a command line (frankly, list a lot of useless formats including video thumbnails, etc.), and at /usr/share/yt-dlp there’s a folder called ‘build_files’ with a .py file for tinkering. For instance I’ve set the default background to something called ‘Lunar Dunes’. You can change all kinds of things in the .py file and just rebuild the standalone and the .deb file if you wanna play around. The ‘Other’ tick box, as opposed to the ‘YouTube’ tick box might be kind of superfluous. It ain’t perfect, but, it is handy. You can see it running on PopOS 21 in the video, below.
LATEST – UPDATED– Formats were being duplicated in lower, log box….fixed:
MINT 20
MINT 21 & 22
Windows Version
Wow – this was a pain in the ass! I made a mess of this thing by confusing files, losing files, and, the thing was just complicated for a guy like me to construct (knowing nothing) . I have two downloads here. One copies a bunch of tools for building to C:\Users\$username\AppData\Roaming\youtube-downloader. As a consquence it’s much larger than the other (which does copy a .py file and a couple of small files to the same location). I have ridiculously called this larger one the ‘developer edition’; it just copies some installers (as described above) in case I want to tinker around and modify something. It keeps me from having to look for stuff, basically.
These things should work on anything from Windows 8.1 to Windows 11. Windows 8.1 will require a patched version….with most, or all, updates installed. In a nutshell, I think these work. I need to test them on various operating systems.
DOWNLOAD (recommended – no tools included)
DOWNLOAD (developer ed. – tools included)
String Sanitizer for Linux
This is a stupidly simple little GUI that allows a user to browse to a directory and remove a lot of oddball characters that could cause problems on certain filesystems – that’s it (works on any version of Mint and probably most debian derivatives):
DiskDig for Linux
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