Open Video Downloader v3.2.0

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New & improved features:

• Select video/audio codecs and tracks. (#229, #393, #635)
  • Optionally show codecs or tracks below quality selection.
• Use timestamps or chapters to download only part of a video. (#161)
• Add per-video setting overrides
  • Configure headers per video. @mp3butcher
  • Configure output & network settings per video. (#269, #522)
• Chapters in a YouTube video are shown when clicking the 'info' icon.
• Improve yt-dlp argument building. (#710) @atsushi2965

Bug fixes:

• Fix the window losing focus until the app is restarted when using screenreaders. (#688, #698)
• Fix an incorrect value for toggle buttons when using screenreaders. (#698)
• Fix the portable version writing webview data to %LOCALAPPDATA%. (#720)
• Fix subtitles sometimes not being detected due to a wrong yt-dlp argument. (#700)

Languages:

• Add the Turkish language. @TURBOKANTR

Not sure what file to download? Check in the README.

Open Video Downloader v3.1.3

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New features:

• Added support for Windows ARM64 builds. @talynone

Bug fixes & behavior improvements:

• Improved file location detection for downloads that were already completed. (#678)
• Improved error handling when YouTube bot detection is triggered.
• Fixed playlists/channels getting stuck on “Fetching metadata”. (#679)
• Fixed the pause button not always stopping a download. (#679)
• Fixed remaining-item counts showing “1” after pausing a playlist.
• Fixed download speed calculation for playlists (speed could keep increasing over time).

Not sure what file to download? Check in the README.

Open Video Downloader v3.1.2

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New & improved features:

• Added support for pausing and resuming downloads (#206)
• Added additional options to clean up the queue (#639)
  • Clear successful, pending, or errored items
  • Pause all items or resume all items
• Added a toggle to disable the proxy without losing the configured value (#648)
• New items are added to the top of the queue by default (#646)
• Reorganized the footer to provide more space

Bug fixes & behavior improvements:

• Fixed videos getting stuck on "Fetching metadata" when maximum concurrency was set to 1 (#658)
• Fixed ffmpeg ghost processes that keep running after stopping a download (#670)
• Fixed playlists getting stuck when they have a livestream in them (#670)
• Fixed a path traversal vulnerability when parsing yt-dlp output templates @independent-arg
• Disabled the "External URL" button when the URL is invalid
• Fixed Windows & Linux showing the wrong shortcuts in the tray menu
• Fixed several yt-dlp parsing errors

Languages:

• Added Spanish locale @independent-arg
• Added Russian locale @Dv1st
• Added Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) locale @chiyi4488

Not sure what file to download? Check in the README.

Open Video Downloader v3.1.1

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New & improved features:

• Added Best audio quality option (produces MP3 V0 output) (#623, #631)
• Remember window size and position (#516, #552)
• Option to show a tray icon and minimize to tray (#310, #552)
• Option to start the app automatically on system startup (#311, #552)
• Optional notifications for queue progress and completion (#552)
• Added distribution via Winget on Windows (#629)

Bug fixes & behavior improvements:

• Fixed “See the guide” links not working on the authentication page (#627)
• Fixed broken destination path detection for remuxed and converted videos (#624)
• Fixed settings not being able to be saved due to failed shortcut setup (#640)
  • Windows & Linux now use alt instead of control as modifier keys for shortcuts, to prevent conflicts.
• Added missing music_offtopic SponsorBlock category (#628)
• Improved error handling when yt-dlp fails to start
• Ensure the app hides instead of quitting when closing the window on macOS

Linux fixes:

• Workaround for window control buttons not working on Wayland
• Workaround for notifications not showing on GNOME
• Improved AppImage reliability by switching to an experimental tauri-cli build (#603)

Languages:

• Added Norwegian (Bokmål) locale @Kf637
• Update Italian language @bovirus

Not sure what file to download? Check in the README.

Open Video Downloader v3.1.0

Changelog

New features:

• Improved download locations
  • Organise downloads into folders (#324, #254)
  • Separate locations for audio and video (#584)
  • Remember recently used files and folders (#149)
• Global shortcuts and app icon progress/badges (#611)
• Remember last selected download type (#530)
• Settings reset button (#325)
• Restricted filename option (#152) @LeviSnoot
• FLAC & WAV audio downloads (#604)
• Embed subtitles directly into media files
• MacOS builds are now notarized

Bugfixes:

• Fix incorrect audio quality selection (#614)
• Fix videos getting stuck loading (#610)
• Show fatal errors more clearly (#610)
• App now restarts automatically after updates
• Download button only enables when videos are ready to download

Languages:

• Added German language support @Auguschd

Not sure what file to download? Check in the README.

Open Video Downloader v3.0.1

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Improvements:

• Release aarch64 (arm64) linux versions. (#334)
• Release windows portable version. (#588)
• Release RPM's for linux installs.
• Link to authentication and subtitle settings from the settings page. (#591)
• Focus the URL input field on start. (#341)

Bugfixes:

• Fix playlist templates in the output format like ${playlist_index}. (#601)
• Only download video's that haven't been downloaded yet. (#589)
• Preserve playlist order when splitting up videos. (#597)
• Fatal error when duration is given back as a float. (#599)
• Show fatal errors properly in the UI. (#599)

Languages:

• Add Italian language. (@bovirus)
• Add Portuguese (Brazil) language. (@fco-pires)
• Add French language. (@Exosys40)
• Improve Dutch error translations (@jely2002)

Not sure what file to download? Check in the README.

Open Video Downloader v3.0.0

A full rewrite of Open Video Downloader. Faster, cleaner, smaller. Built with Vue 3 + TypeScript and a Rust (Tauri) backend. It’s a fresh start for the app and the project.

Highlights

• New architecture: no more Electron or jQuery
• Faster startup, better performance, smaller footprint
• Secure credential storage via system keychain
• Safer binary updates with a signed manifest
• Improved concurrency & background processing
• Cleaner UI, better accessibility, reorganized settings
• Better progress/error reporting
• Added Dutch language support 🇳🇱

Notes

• Some older features may be missing and will be revisited
• Expect occasional bugs, please report anything you find
• I’m cleaning up old issues/PRs so we can start fresh
• Older versions won’t auto-update to 3.0.0, please install the new version manually

Thanks for sticking around. More updates soon.

Not sure what file to download? Check in the README.

v2.4.0

Changelog:

Features

• Use yt-dlp instead of youtube-dl (#151)
• Sponsorblock support (#183)
• Add option to use empty user-agent string for downloading certain VR videos. (#213)
• No longer ship with binaries, download them on first launch

Bugfixes

• Ignore youtube-dl config file (#190)
• Only set the default format if there are any (#212, #197)
• Fix chmod command on linux systems

v2.3.1

Changelog:

Features

• Add ffmpeg check, when the executable can't be found, extract if from the package again. (#153)

Bugfixes

• Disable log viewer button for unified playlist downloads.
• Fix the audio codec selector showing while codec selection is disabled.
• Fix variable always being null in openVideo function. (#155)
• Fix files not being copied over correctly on first start. (#153)
• Fix sentry not being able to initialize on linux builds.
• Use the old filename extractor when the new one fails. (#160, #163, #166)
• Fix linux version of youtube-dl being downloaded on a windows portable build. (#156)
• Change the product name in fix-appimage.js to open-video-downloader.
• Fix playlist metadata being accidentally cleared, resulting in playlist related output formats not working. (#148)

v2.3.0 - Open Video Downloader

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Breaking changes

• Change visible names to Open Video Downloader (#130)

Features

• Add auto option to preferred audio qualities. (#137)
• Add rate limit option to rate limit the network speed per video. (#140)
• Add specific qualities to the global quality selector. (#52)
• Add bitrates to audio only quality selection. (#142)
• Add the option to select video/audio codecs to download. (#47)
• Add setting to always download a video or playlist. (#88)
• Add setting to disable global shortcuts. (#144)
• Save the global download type selection. (#141)
• Add log viewer (#132)
• Make cards draggable so they can be re-ordered. (#115)

Bugfixes

• Fix error handler triggering on warnings. (#125)
• Improve stability of the Open file button. (#126)
• Store user data in folder next to portable executable. (#136)