Glypdl
by Suresh Soundararajan
A lightweight native Linux graphical frontend for yt-dlp
About
Glypdl is a fast, native GTK4/libadwaita download manager that interfaces seamlessly with yt-dlp. Designed for modern GNOME desktop environments, it offers rich download controls, format selection, network throughput metrics, download queuing, playlist batch management, and complete download history tracking. Features include: - Native GNOME/libadwaita look and feel with dark/light mode support - Audio-only, Video-only, and Video+Audio download modes - Interactive YouTube playlist downloading with selective checkboxes - Smooth real-time network throughput and ETA calculations - Concurrent download queue management - History tracking powered by a local SQLite database - Saved Netscape cookie profiles and authentication recovery dialog - Zero web wrappers or heavy runtimes
Permissions
Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.
- network
--share=network - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - access to your download folder
--filesystem=xdg-download - access to xdg-run/glypdl
--filesystem=xdg-run/glypdl:create - notifications
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Who publishes this
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- repository is 22 day(s) old with 3 star(s): no track record yet
publisher:new-repo - hosted by github.com/sureshsoudararajan, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.sureshsoudararajan.Glypdl
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