# Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader

Downloads videos and playlists from YouTube

Repository: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/youtubedownloader
Homepage: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader/releases
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: youtube, download, video, playlist, mp3, mp4, webm, downloader, ffmpeg, reverse-engineering
Last push: 2026-08-26T11:47:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2847, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 17.5, "n_releases_24m": 17}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 16003, forks 2037 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:14.666510+00:00)

## What it is
YoutubeDownloader is a cross-platform desktop GUI application for downloading videos, playlists, and channels from YouTube in formats like MP4, MP3, and WebM. It is built on the YoutubeExplode library and supports keyword search and format conversion via FFmpeg.

## Use cases
- download a youtube video as mp4
- save a youtube playlist locally
- extract audio from youtube videos as mp3
- download all videos from a youtube channel
- search youtube by keywords and download results
- convert downloaded videos to webm

## When to choose
- you want a simple GUI to download YouTube videos, playlists, or channels
- you need audio extraction or format conversion via FFmpeg
- you prefer a cross-platform desktop app over command-line tools

## When to avoid
- you need a CLI or programmatic API for automation (use YoutubeExplode or yt-dlp instead)
- you need batch downloading from sites other than YouTube
- you require active feature development, as the project is in maintenance mode

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: video-processing, web-scraping, gui
- domain: media, desktop-applications, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, windows
- tags: youtube-downloader, youtube, ffmpeg, mp3, mp4, playlist-download, avalonia, csharp, video, macos, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:14.666510+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:05:17.337404+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:14.666510+00:00, sha e084ef79df37)
  - homepage: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader/releases (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:03.970093+00:00, sha a97eda983100)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.