[APP][FREE][Android 7.0+] YouTube Downloader 8.2.2 & 9.0_beta
An Android app to download YouTube videos (and extract/convert audio to mp3).
Compatible from Android Nougat (7.0 - API24) and up.
Get it here:
DOWNLOAD LATEST BUILDS: https://dentex.github.io
Installation
The app supports Android versions starting from Nougat (7.0);
Remember to enable Unknown Sources from your device’s Security settings, to allow installations of non market apps (safely ignore the subsequent dialog). Please note: in newer versions of Android, this kind of permission is not system-wide, but has to be given to single apps;
If the “install” button is not working, temporary disable apps as Halo, Screenfilter, Twilight, LastPass password manager or anything similar (apps that do “draw on other apps”);
Usage
Search for video and music within the app itself, OR
Select the “share” button in the YouTube App while watching a video (or share any YouTube plain text link via any App) and choose “YouTube downloader”;
You’ll see all the video codecs and qualities available for the video you’re on. then:
Press an item to download the video locally (on the device) or to send the download via SSH to a remote PC. Destination machine requirements: Bash and Wget (and FFmpeg for muxing 480p and 1080p videos). More SSH info available in the app’s tutorials;
Long-press an item and choose between copy to clipboard or share link as text. Note: such a link (differently from when you send it via SSH) can be only used from the same device where it has been created OR from the same LAN, if you share it to another PC;
Use the Dashboard to interact with downloaded video (audio extraction/conversion/mux and file management);
You can copy/move/rename/delete files on the external sdcard.
Features
Known issues
Anti-features
Are not supported for download all videos that:
Credits
Code excerpts Licenses
An Android app to download YouTube videos (and extract/convert audio to mp3).
Compatible from Android Nougat (7.0 - API24) and up.
Get it here:
DOWNLOAD LATEST BUILDS: https://dentex.github.io
Installation
The app supports Android versions starting from Nougat (7.0);
Remember to enable Unknown Sources from your device’s Security settings, to allow installations of non market apps (safely ignore the subsequent dialog). Please note: in newer versions of Android, this kind of permission is not system-wide, but has to be given to single apps;
If the “install” button is not working, temporary disable apps as Halo, Screenfilter, Twilight, LastPass password manager or anything similar (apps that do “draw on other apps”);
- To install the app, click on the notification about the completed download; If you have a file manager installed, you can browse to your download folder and install YTD directly, clicking on its apk file.
Usage
Search for video and music within the app itself, OR
Select the “share” button in the YouTube App while watching a video (or share any YouTube plain text link via any App) and choose “YouTube downloader”;
You’ll see all the video codecs and qualities available for the video you’re on. then:
Press an item to download the video locally (on the device) or to send the download via SSH to a remote PC. Destination machine requirements: Bash and Wget (and FFmpeg for muxing 480p and 1080p videos). More SSH info available in the app’s tutorials;
Long-press an item and choose between copy to clipboard or share link as text. Note: such a link (differently from when you send it via SSH) can be only used from the same device where it has been created OR from the same LAN, if you share it to another PC;
Use the Dashboard to interact with downloaded video (audio extraction/conversion/mux and file management);
You can copy/move/rename/delete files on the external sdcard.
Features
- Search for YouTube videos within the app;
- Download on your device;
- Remote download on another PC via SSH;
- Multi-threaded downloads: maximizes bandwidth available and minimizes YouTube’s speed throttling;
- Support for almost any format/quality available from YouTube;
- Audio extraction to aac/ogg or conversion to mp3 (menu available via single-click on items in the Dashboard tab);
- Mp3’s ID3 tags edit;
- Mux Audio-Only and Video-Only streams into a complete video (to enjoy HD resolutions available as separated streams only);
- File management (menu available via long-click on items in the Dashboard tab);
- Handle download link: copy and/or pass it to other apps;
- Video list filters by format, quality etc via (left) sliding menu;
- Many preferences to customize usage.
Known issues
- Some very long running downloads may be forced to PAUSE state if the app is not kept to the front for a certain amount of time. In this cases a manual resume is needed;
- It's possible to use the external (removable) sdcard as download destination folder, but that’s one caveat: only the app’s private folder will be available. IMPORTANT note: this folder will be deleted by the system (together with all your downloads) if you uninstall the app. For the moment it’s not possible to choose a different directory on the external/removable sdcard;
- The stream traditionally used by the app for the video preview if often missing nowadays, so a low resolution video-only stream is being used in such cases.
Anti-features
Are not supported for download all videos that:
- require login for age confirmation;
- implement encrypted streams (some complete movies);
- are not available in your country;
- are live events.
Credits
Translations: see https://dentex.github.io/docs/translators.html.
Credits for the custom download manager to Hiroshi Matsunaga (matsuhiro):
https://github.com/matsuhiro/AndroidDownloadManger (released "unlicensed").
The FFmpegKit and the FFmpeg binary (http://www.ffmpeg.org/index.html),
used for the audio extraction feature, are released under the LGPL-3.0.
Launcher and notification icons by Sam Plane:
http://samplane123.deviantart.com/, released under the CC BY-NC-ND
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0)
Search and results saving adapted from the project at
https://github.com/falikk/MediaSearch by Yaroslav Maslov
(released "unlicensed").
The SlidingMenu library is released under the Apache License:
(Copyright © 2012 Jeremy Feinstein)
GitHub - jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu: An Android library that allows you to easily create applications with slide-in menus. You may use it in your Android apps provided that you cite this project and include the license in your app. Thanks!
An Android library that allows you to easily create applications with slide-in menus. You may use it in your Android apps provided that you cite this project and include the license in your app. Th...github.com
The liblame library, used to compile FFmpeg, is released under the LGPL.
A GitHub project, https://github.com/intervigilium/liblame,
has been used to compile the lame libraries for Android.
(liblame Copyright © 2010 Ethan Chen)
(LAME Copyright © 1999-2007 The LAME Project,
Copyright © 1999-2001 Mark Taylor,
Copyright © 1998 Micheal Cheng)
(mpglib Copyright © 1995-1997 Michael Hipp)
Audio tags editing library: Jaudiotagger by Paul Taylor, released under the LGPL.
http://www.jthink.net/jaudiotagger/index.jsp
Copyright © 2004-2007 JThink Ltd
Picasso: Image downloading and caching library;
OkHttp: An HTTP and SPDY client for Android and Java applications;
Okio: A modern I/O API for Java;
Copyright 2013 Square, Inc.
GitHub - square/okhttp: Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.
Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM. - square/okhttp
GitHub - square/okio: A modern I/O library for Android, Java, and Kotlin Multiplatform.
A modern I/O library for Android, Java, and Kotlin Multiplatform. - square/okio
Gold Medal icon by Andy, from http://psdblast.com/
SmoothProgressBar: https://github.com/castorflex/SmoothProgressBar
Copyright © 2014 Antoine Merle, released under the Apache License 2.0.
Code excerpts Licenses
Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com):
a question and answer site for programmers where all the content is CC BY-SA 3.0 licensed
(see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
Utils.scanMedia(http://www.grokkingandroid.com/adding-files-to-androids-media-library-using-the-mediascanner/)
by Wolfram Rittmeyer
DashboardAdapter.java and DashboardListItem.java: code adapted from
https://github.com/survivingwithandroid/Surviving-with-android/
by Francesco Azzola (JFrankie)
Rhino.jar: open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java;
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Rhino
license: http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/
QueueThread.java reference:
by Ivan MemrukAndroid Guts: Intro to Loopers and Handlers | Mind The Robot
One of the reasons I love Android API is because it contains so many useful little things. Many of them are not even specific to the platform and I really miss them in Java SE. Today I'd like to give a short introduction to two nice classes - Looper and Handler. They are used inmindtherobot.com
CustomAsyncTask.java "priority" patch by http://stackoverflow.com/users/3153792/corsair992
SHA1 file checksum method: http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0416.html
CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CA licensed (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/)
Last edited:
