Downline is a free, cross-platform desktop application for downloading video and audio from YouTube and many other sites. Works on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Download the latest version here.

• Works for links from several sites
• Choose audio and video quality (with support for 4K videos)
• Convert audio to multiple formats (mp3, aac, m4a and more)
• Convert video to multiple formats (mp4, webm, mkv)
• Pause and resume downloads
• Download entire playlist and channel
• Download and embed subtitles
• Download multiple files simultaneously

• More file naming options
• Notifications and system tray integration
• Load links from text file
• Display errors

After downloading the source code, add the platform specific versions of youtube-dl and ffmpeg for the current platform as shown:

resources
├ ffmpeg
│ └ ffmpeg.exe
└ youtube-dl
  └ youtube-dl.exe

Install dependencies (electron and electron-builder) and run the app (on port 5500):

npm install
npm run dev

Before proceeding with the build steps, create a folder named releases in the root directory. The build process performs the following steps:

• Clean output directories (removes dist and removes files from releases)
• Build distributable(s) for target platform(s)
• Compress portable distributions (requires tar and 7z)
• Rename distributables in the format downline-{version}-{type}-{platform}.{ext}
• Move all distributables to releases folder

Place the dependencies for the target platform (e.g. for windows) in a folder as shown:

resources
│ ...
└ win
  ├ ffmpeg
  │ └ ffmpeg.exe
  └ youtube-dl
    └ youtube-dl.exe

Build for the target platform (win, mac or linux):

npm run build:platform

Build for all three platforms in parallel:

npm run build:all

If you would like to build for a platform without all the extra build steps (or npm run build:platform fails), run:

./node_modules/.bin/electron-builder build --platform

• youtube-dl
• ffmpeg
• electron
• electron-builder
• vuejs

This software is distributed under the MIT license.