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Video Downloader

by truelockmc

A simple GUI and CLI media downloader application

Sandboxed Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later
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About

Video Downloader is a graphical and command‑line application to download media from many websites. It lets you choose formats, quality and can handle multiple downloads at once. This application supports both GUI and CLI usage, interactive or for scripting.

Permissions

Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.

  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • access to your videos folder
    --filesystem=xdg-videos
  • access to your download folder
    --filesystem=xdg-download
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri

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.github.unrud.VideoDownloader on Flathub but from a different repository
    publisher:lookalike
  • hosted by github.com/truelockmc, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.truelockmc.video-downloader
    publisher:namespace

Maintenance

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

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.