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Another YT-DLP Gui application for Windows but it built with Windows 11 Style (Win UI 3)

This is my first project with Win UI 3 trying to do my best 💖

🗺 Here is the roadmap and to-do list for this project 📌

How to install 📥

Which version should you choose?

• Microsoft Store version provides automatic updates. (Suggested)
• GitHub version is free and open-source, but requires manual updates. Installing the GitHub version is a bit more complicated than the Microsoft Store version.

Using Microsoft Store

Using .msixbundle installer

1. Go to the latest release page
2. Download the "*.cer" file (real certificates cost a lot of money)
3. Open the certificate and press "Install Certificate..."
4. On the Certificate Import Wizard, select "Local Machine", press "Next" and grant Admin Access
5. Select "Place all certificates in the following store", then "Browse...", choose "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" and "OK"
6. Finally, press "Next" and then "Finish". It might ask you to confirm, press Yes
7. Download the "*.msixbundle" file (depending to your architecture: x64, x86, arm etc.)
8. The App Installer will pop up, press "Install", or "Update" if you've installed Lech YT-DLP before

Contributing

There is a Türkçe saying for this, Google it:

"Bir elin nesi var, iki elin sesi var."

Just open a pull request, your help is always welcomed (●'◡'●)💕

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

I will try to answer some of the most common questions here. If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask.

Why I need to pass my cookies here?

1. Some videos are age-restricted or region-restricted.
2. If you want to download videos from a private playlist or channel.
3. You can download a few videos without cookies, but after a while, you will hit download limits.
4. Some videos require authentication to access.
5. Some videos are only available to users with certain permissions (e.g., subscribers, members, etc.).

✨ By passing your cookies, you can bypass these restrictions and download the videos you want.

• But don't worry, your cookies are created by you and stored on your local machine LechYTDLP is only using your cookies to pass YT-DLP but if you have trust issues. See yourself in the source code.

How to get my cookies?

In future, I will create a browser extension to make it easier for you to get your cookies.

But for now, you can check out following method to get your cookies:

See YT-DLP official documentation (recommended)

Why I am getting "No JavaScript runtime" warning?

It means that you haven't installed a JavaScript runtime on your machine.

To download from YouTube, yt-dlp needs to solve JavaScript challenges presented by YouTube using an external JavaScript runtime.

Sometimes formats can be extracted without a JavaScript runtime, but in some cases, especially when downloading from YouTube, a JavaScript runtime is required to solve the challenges and extract the video formats.

💖 See this topic on YT-DLP official documentation because they have download links to Deno, Node, Bun or QuickJS.

After you have installed one of the JavaScript runtimes open Lech YT-DLP and in app go to:

Settings > Customize YT-DLP > JavaScript Runtime

Select the JavaScript runtime you have installed. After that, you should be able to download videos without any issues.