yt-dlp-easy-gui

All the convenience behind the ability to stream a multitude of types of content in any place that happens to have a solid internet connection can be overshadowed by the possibility of losing access to the platform or channel hosting it, or the video in question can be deleted unexpectedly when its original uploader is banned for not adhering to community guidelines.

As a result, a wide variety of fun and educational videos end up removed from services such as YouTube, prompting plenty of viewers to rely on dedicated programs such as yt-dlp-easy-gui when it comes to preserving their favorite content.

Thanks to thousands of tech-savvy members of the open-source community, a project known as youtube-dl was released to allow its users to freely download videos from more platforms than the one it is named after. Given its openness, the app was then modified to incorporate a number of enhancements missing from the original iteration, spawning yt-dlp.

With a large percentage of Windows users feeling rather intimated by the command line, many graphical user interface-based clients for the aforementioned program were born, one of them being the app at hand, which seeks to streamline the downloading process with a mouse-friendly layout that sticks to the essentials.

Once the utility is installed, users can download the executables for the ffmpeg library and yt-dlp before placing them in the program’s directory. When launched, the app lets you paste the URL of the video designated for downloading and proceed to select whether the file is saved in audio or video format, alongside its location. In terms of improvements, the program could use more granular control over the quality presets, which currently lack the choice between a video’s exact resolutions.

Whether you find yt-dlp’s terminal-based usage pattern slightly daunting or you want a lighter alternative to more complex and resource-hungry downloaders, yt-dlp-easy-gui may be an app worth checking out to ensure your favorite song covers or comedy sketches are not lost in the sands of time.