Download videos from websites with an easy-to-use interface. Provides the following features:

• Convert videos to MP3
• Supports password-protected and private videos
• Download single videos or whole playlists
• Automatically selects a video format based on your quality demands

Based on youtube-dl.

• Flatpak
• Snap
• Fedora: sudo dnf install video-downloader

The behavior of the program can be tweaked with GSettings.

Paths can either be absolute or start with ~, xdg-desktop, xdg-download, xdg-templates, xdg-publicshare, xdg-documents, xdg-music, xdg-pictures or xdg-videos.

The default is xdg-download/VideoDownloader.

flatpak run --command=gsettings com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader set com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader download-folder '~/VideoDownloader'

gsettings --schemadir /snap/video-downloader/current/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas set com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader download-folder "~/VideoDownloader"

Prefer MPEG videos instead of free formats when both are available at the same resolution and frame rate.

The default is false.

flatpak run --command=gsettings com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader set com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader prefer-mpeg true

gsettings --schemadir /snap/video-downloader/current/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas set com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader prefer-mpeg true