I built a free YouTube/SoundCloud downloader for Windows that runs entirely on your PC

Описание и применение

Простой Windows‑приложение, позволяющее скачивать видео и аудио с более чем 1000 сайтов, включая YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo, TikTok и др., без рекламы и сторонних серверов. Работает полностью локально, поддерживает плейлисты, поиск музыки, субтитры и прокси.

Задача

Users need a single tool to download videos from many sites without ads, pop‑ups, or third‑party servers.

Результат

A single, ad‑free Windows application that downloads videos and audio from over 1000 sites, supports playlists, music search, subtitles, and proxy usage, all running locally without installing Python system‑wide.

Рабочий процесс

• Download universal-downloader.zip from the GitHub release.
• Unpack the zip and double‑click Запуск.bat to start the app.
• Paste a link into the UI to download the desired format or playlist.
• Optionally use the Music tab to search and download by name.
• Use the browser extension or bookmarklet to trigger downloads from any page.
• Configure proxy settings if needed.
• Use the built‑in player to preview audio tracks.
• Uninstall via Удалить.bat when finished.

Доказательства

I built Universal Downloader, a free, open‑source Windows app on top of yt-dlp.

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Everything happens on your computer. The UI is just a local web page, served by a tiny Flask server that listens on 127.0.0.1 only.

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On first start a small script downloads a private copy of Python 3.12, yt-dlp, ffmpeg and Deno into the app folder and verifies every download with SHA-256.

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