Birth Of SimpleYouTubeDownloader

Birth Of SimpleYouTubeDownloader

A new project is born! It's goal is to provide a graphical user interface for youtube-dl - downloading YouTube videos will be secure and easy for everyone.

youtube-dl

youtube-dl is a command line tool (a tool, lacking fancy buttons and windows) providing many options for downloading YouTube videos. As it is installed locally on the computer, it is more secure than a web-based YouTube downloader. Unfortunately youtube-dl is hard to use for people without any command line experience. SimpleYouTubeDownloader will take away this obstacle and make the way free for everyone!

What SimpleYouTubeDownloader Will Be In The End

• Intuitive to use
• Beautiful and clean
• Cross-platform
• Offering as many options as youtube-dl
• Available in at least two languages

Goal: Cross-platform
In the end SimpleYouTubeDownloader will be available on Linux, Mac and Windows. First it will probably only be available on Linux.

Goal: Available In At Least Two Languages
SimpleYouTubeDownloader will be available in English and German. Other languages may be added by contributors.

Project Policies

• Transparent development
• Thoroughly tested releases
• Translations by humans

Policy: Transparent Development
I will post updates here - this includes posting the current todo list as well as providing information on the state of development. To start right off with this policy, here is the first version of the todo list:

Nr.	Name	Status	Notes
0	Create project	In progress	On SourceForge and locally, programming language: C++
1	Create window	Open	Background colour should contain red and should have a gradient (ideas for colours: #ff3300 & #ff00ff or #ff3300 & #ffaaff); use Qt; implement 2 buttons for page switching and place them at the bottom; show a progress bar, which shows how many pages are still left
2	Implement youtube-dl caller	Open	Find a efficient way to pass options to the caller; it should also be possible to pass custom arguments and to specify a target directory
3	Implement -x option	Open	Use at least one page for each option group - this would be on the page "Post-processing Options"
4	Implement –audio-format option	Open	Use a dropdown menu
5	Implement –yes-playlist & –no-playlist option	Open	Use a tickbox; only allow other playlist options if ticked
6	Implement -o option	Open	Let the user build their filename with boxes, but provide an default option; also provide a custom entry field
7	Implement fail-safe downloading using -i option	Open
8	Create installer and uninstaller for Linux	Open
9	Create installer and uninstaller for Windows	Open
10	Create installer and uninstaller for Mac	Open
11	Implement storing and loading of configurations	Open	It probably makes sense, to create a class that holds the configuration; this is related to 2
12	Implement passing custom options	Open	At the end there will be an entry, where custom options can be specified
13	Implement passing the URL	Open	Will be on the last page as well as the custom options entry (related to 12)
14	Create logo	Open	Make it similar to the YouTube logo, but with a "download" arrow

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