Flatsonar

Media Downloader

by Hmidani Abdelilah

Download videos and audio from online platforms

Broad permissions Verified creator MIT v3.2.1
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Screenshot 1 of Media Downloader

About

Media Downloader is a graphical application for downloading video and audio from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and many other platforms. It supports quality selection, subtitles, playlists, media cutting, compression, and accelerated downloads with Aria2.

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • full access to your home folder
    --filesystem=home
  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
  • sets environment variable MEDIA_DOWNLOADER_DISABLE_YTDLP_AUTO_UPDATE
    --env=MEDIA_DOWNLOADER_DISABLE_YTDLP_AUTO_UPDATE=1

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • same name as com.markopejic.downloader on Flathub but from a different repository
    publisher:lookalike
  • same name as com.warlordsoftwares.media-downloader on Flathub but from a different repository
    publisher:lookalike
  • same name as io.github.mhogomchungu.media-downloader on Flathub but from a different repository
    publisher:lookalike
  • hosted by github.com/hmidani-abdelilah, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.hmidani_abdelilah.Media_Downloader
    publisher:namespace

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

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