LilYTDownloader (or LYT for short) is a Windows app that lets you download youtube videos free of hassle on your own network, ignoring forced network limitations from websites.

• Download the latest release from the releases page.

• Run the setup (Windows may stop you from running, this is because the LYT installer is unsigned, to sign LYT would cost 459$ a year. To continue, hit "More info" then "Run anyway").

• Wait for LYT to download, if a prompt asking for which networks to allow LYT to access, make sure to ALWAYS select "private networks such as my home network", this is so LYT can open a WebSocket on your local machine, which is the backbone of how LYT works.

• If LYT doesn't open after the installation, open your Windows start menu and search for "LilYTDownloader".

• Go to your browsers extension settings and enable Developer Mode (if you're unsure how to do this, search "enable extension developer mode on [YOUR BROWSER HERE]")

• Install the extension.zip from the releases page and unzip it, go to your browser's extension settings and hit "Load Unpacked" and select the unzipped folder.

• Pin the extension (or don't 😔) and click on the extension.

• You're all set!

• Install a userscript extension on your browser, something like tampermonkey.

• Install the userscript.

• Open a youtube video tab, right next to the subscribe button will be a save button, click this to open the LYT userscript GUI (this GUI is no longer in development, so it may not look the best).

Contribuing is greatly appriciated! Feel free to fork this repo and make a pull request, I've written documentation and types for most of the important functions and important data in LYT.

• Fork the repo and run npm i to install all the dependencies.

• Run npm run build to open 4 terminals which will compile the all Typescript & Postcss within the project.

• Run npm start to test the project with electron forge.

• (Optional) Run npx electron . to test quickly without temporarly compiling the project.

• (Optional) Run npm run build:app to just build the app & npm run build:extension to just build the extension