Video Downloader, an application to download YouTube videos in a simple way

Within the type of most demanded applications we can find media players and image editors, although we also cannot download those applications that facilitate the task with the YouTube platform.

Although YouTube is natively accessed and managed from a web browser or from its applications for mobile devices, there are also other applications that function as features that are usually found in the native YouTube application as well as applications that extend the type of use .

Among those we can find those that They are in charge of “trying to block” the advertisements and advertisements that we constantly find on the videos and the platform. Other nThey allow you to download the videos to later view them.

That is why today we will talk about an excellent application that will help us with this work.

About Video Downloader

Video Downloader is a simple but powerful free and open source application which is intended to work under Linux systems. Its code can be found on github and it is distributed under the GPL-3.0 + license.

Importantly Video Downloader is based on youtube-dl and that despite this the features offered by the application are relatively limited compared to what youtube-dl offers.

So Video Downloader can be considered as a GUI for youtube-dl but barely under development.

Within One of the main features of the application stands out that it allows us to convert videos to mp3.

Video Downloader It also has the support to download password protected videos and private. (Access link or credentials are required for this).

In addition, it is possible to download the videos individually (this from the url) or complete playlists (in the same way it has support to download the url of the list).

Another of the functions found in Video Downloader is that it allows you to automatically select a video format based on your preferred resolution.

How to install Video Downloader on Linux?

For those who are interested in being able to install this application on their systems, they can do it in two ways, so they can choose the one they like.

The first method to install Video Downloader on your Linux distribution is with the help of Flatpak packages, so they must have the support to be able to install this type of application on their system.

The installation is carried out by opening a terminal and on it we are going to type the following command:

flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader.flatpakref

We respond with “y” to accept the download and installation and wait for this to finish so that we can start using Video Downloader on the system.

In case you cannot find the application in the applications menu, you can run it from the terminal with the help of the following command:

flatpak run com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader

As extra data, if you want to check if there is an update to the application, you can do this by executing the following command in the terminal:

flatpak --user update com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader

The other installation method with which we have to be able to obtain this application and have it in the system it is with the help of Snap packages.

So you will have to have the support to be able to install this type of application on your system.

The installation can be done by opening a terminal on your system and in it you are going to type the following command:

sudo snap install video-downloader

And that's it, you can start using this application on your system.

Using Video Downloader

To use the application we will have to open it and in it we will see that the GUI is quite simple and very intuitive.

We just have to select what we want to download if the video or just the audio of it.

We place the url and click on the "Download" button.

Finally, the downloaded videos or audio files (converted) will be found inside a folder called "VideoDownloader" that is inside your "Downloads" folder.