About

An attempt to teach myself React, Redux and Electron

Desktop App to search and download YouTube videos

Built on

• Electron - Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• React - A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
• material-ui - React components that implement Google's Material Design
• electron-react-redux-boilerplate

With help from

• ytdl-core
• electron-config
• react-redux-loading-bar
• react-youtube
• simple-youtube-api

Features

• Search, Preview and Download Videos
• Download multiple videos at once
• Port to electron-react-redux-boilerplate for easier builds
• Create Linux executable
• Open Downloads folder in file explorer, browse to download directory
• Indicate download progress
• Electron application icon implementation

Future feature ideas

• Indicate video length
• Ability to cancel download
• Option to download Audio Only
• Option to select video download quality
• Display recent searches
• Congiure search results count

Mac and Windows Binaries

Mac, Windows and Linux binaries

Install and Run

git clone https://github.com/vanzylv/youtube-downloader-electron.git
cd youtube-downloader-electron

Update the app/config.js file with your youtube api key

npm install
npm run develop

License

MIT License