🎥 LilYTDownloader

LilYTDownloader (or LYT for short) is a Windows app that lets you download youtube videos free of hassle on your own network, ignoring forced network limitations from websites.

🏃‍♂️ How do I use LYT?

! LilYTDownloader was designed to be used on a x64 windows machine !

More support may come in the future

! LilYTDownloader is still in beta !

LYT runs in the background when you close the window, to fully close LYT open the Windows tray and right click on the LYT icon then hit quit. A setting to disable this will be added in the future.

• Download the latest release from the releases page.

• Run the setup (Windows may stop you from running, this is because the LYT installer is unsigned, to sign LYT would cost 459$ a year. To continue, hit "More info" then "Run anyway").

• Wait for LYT to download, if a prompt asking for which networks to allow LYT to access, make sure to ALWAYS select "private networks such as my home network", this is so LYT can open a WebSocket on your local machine, which is the backbone of how LYT works.

• If LYT doesn't open after the installation, open your Windows start menu and search for "LilYTDownloader".

• Go to your browsers extension settings and enable Developer Mode (if you're unsure how to do this, search "enable extension developer mode on [YOUR BROWSER HERE]")

• Install the extension.zip from the releases page and unzip it, go to your browser's extension settings and hit "Load Unpacked" and select the unzipped folder.

• Pin the extension (or don't 😔) and click on the extension.

• You're all set!

Using the userscript (old)

• Install a userscript extension on your browser, something like tampermonkey.

• Install the userscript.

• Open a youtube video tab, right next to the subscribe button will be a save button, click this to open the LYT userscript GUI (this GUI is no longer in development, so it may not look the best).

🎥 Contributing

Contribuing is greatly appriciated! Feel free to fork this repo and make a pull request, I've written documentation and types for most of the important functions and important data in LYT.

📺 Setting up the Developer Enviroment

• Fork the repo and run npm i to install all the dependencies.

• Run npm run build to open 4 terminals which will compile the all Typescript & Postcss within the project.

• Run npm start to test the project with electron forge.

• (Optional) Run npx electron . to test quickly without temporarly compiling the project.

• (Optional) Run npm run build:app to just build the app & npm run build:extension to just build the extension