I know there are already ways to download videos. Chrome extensions, terminal tools, websites with a million ads. But I was learning Electron and wanted to build something actually useful for myself. Something where you just download the app, paste a URL and go. No installing Python, no downloading binaries, no terminal. yt-dlp and ffmpeg are bundled inside so there's zero setup.
ArcDLP is a desktop app for Linux (also Mac and Windows). Here's what it can do:
- Download videos (uses yt-dlp under the hood) in up to 4K, or extract audio as MP3/OPUS
- Playlist support. Select the items you want, pick a format, queue them all at once
- Instagram saved collections. yt-dlp doesn't actually support these, so I built a scraper that grabs every post from a collection and queues them for download
- Sign in to YouTube and Instagram to access private, age-restricted and members-only content
- Download queue that keeps going even if something fails. One broken link doesn't kill the rest
- Download history with cached metadata for quick re-access
- Simple, clean and easy to use UI with light and dark mode :)
No cloud, no accounts, no tracking, no ads. Everything runs locally on your machine.
https://github.com/archisvaze/arcdlp
It's open source so issues and contributions welcome. Hopefully you find it useful!
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