Slightly customized version of ClipGrab (http://clipgrab.org/)

ClipGrab is a GUI frontend for youtube-dl.

See README for build instructions if you are building yourself.

Unless you want to hack on the code, I would recommend downloading a pre-built AppImage file.

You'll need to make the AppImage executable, then you can run it:

# Set version of ClipGrab.  As of Oct 31, 2021 latest version is 3.9.7
CLIPGRAB_VER=3.9.7

# Change directory to ~/Downloads and download latest AppImage
cd ~/Downloads
wget "https://download.clipgrab.org/ClipGrab-${CLIPGRAB_VER}-x86_64.AppImage"

# Make downloaded AppImage executable
chmod +x "ClipGrab-${CLIPGRAB_VER}-x86_64.AppImage"

# Run it!
./ClipGrab-${CLIPGRAB_VER}-x86_64.AppImage

If you find this software useful, please consider making a donation.

Pre-compiled packages for ClipGrab are available on https://clipgrab.org But compiling ClipGrab is really easy!

You need to install the Qt5 developer libraries in order to compile the program.

On Ubuntu and Debian-based system, you can install the necessary libraries like this:

sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev

Other Linux distributions might have slightly different package names. Packages for Windows and macOS can be downloaded here: https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.12/

In addition, ffmpeg (no developer libs necessary) and python needs to be installed: Ubuntu 20.04 requires python-is-python3:

sudo apt install ffmpeg python-is-python3

To compile ClipGrab, simply execute the following command:

qmake clipgrab.pro && make

This will create an executable "clipgrab" that you can start via ./clipgrab.