YTDM
by Shahzaib Hassan
Download manager for YouTube
About
YTDM is a desktop download manager specialized for YouTube. It brings the classic download-manager workflow — a queue you control — to video downloads. - Download queue with pause, resume, and retry - Playlist downloads into their own folders, with per-video selection - Quality presets from 720p to best available, or audio-only M4A/MP3 - Subtitle download (.srt) and metadata embedding - Bandwidth limit, clipboard link detection, light and dark themes - Self-updating download engine (yt-dlp) that keeps working when sites change Download only content you have the right to save.
Permissions
1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
--socket=x11 - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - network
--share=network - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - access to your download folder
--filesystem=xdg-download - system tray
--talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
Who publishes this
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- repository is 40 day(s) old with 0 star(s): no track record yet
publisher:new-repo - installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source
source:prebuilt - hosted by github.com/shahzaib-hasaan, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.Shahzaib_Hasaan.ytdm
publisher:namespace
Maintenance
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