YTDLnis

YTDLnis is a free and open source video/audio downloader using yt-dlp for Android 7.0 and above.

Created by Denis Çerri

💡 Features

⬇️ Downloading

• Download audio, video or run custom yt-dlp commands on 1000+ websites
• Share a link to the app and download straight from the bottom card, no need to open the app
• Quick download mode to start instantly without waiting for data to load
• Playlists and bulk downloads: edit every item separately or bulk edit type, format, path and filename template for all of them, sort by author, duration, title or date
• Feed a .txt file of links, playlists or search queries and the app processes them all
• Queue, schedule by date and time, and run multiple downloads at the same time
• Pause / resume, re-download failed or cancelled items with swipe gestures
• Observe sources: watch playlists and channels and automatically download new uploads, with optional sync
• Duplicate checking, failed data fetches are saved so you can retry them later
• Uploads to cloud providers (e.g. Nextcloud) when your download path is an external storage provider
• Android 16 live notifications for every running download

✂️ Editing your files

• Cut videos by timestamps or chapters with unlimited cuts, and optionally merge the cuts into one file
• Crop videos right from the download card
• Split items into separate files by chapters
• Remove or mark SponsorBlock segments as chapters
• Embed subtitles, metadata, chapters and thumbnails, or edit the title and author
• Burn subtitles into the video
• Search synced or plain lyrics from lrclib.net, preview and adjust their timing, then embed them or save them as .lrc
• Compatible mode to re-encode into widely supported formats
• Filename templates with live preview, or simple subfolders by playlist, website or download type

🧑‍💻 For power users

• Full terminal with bash, where yt-dlp, Python, pip, FFmpeg and the other bundled tools are ready to use
• Command templates with syntax highlighting that you can back up and share
• Cookies support: log in through the built-in browser and download private or premium content
• Generate YouTube PO tokens with the built-in BGUtils provider or inside the app's webview
• Choose NewPipe or yt-dlp as the data fetching extractor
• Python with curl-cffi bundled, plus JS runtimes (QuickJS, Deno, NodeJS) for website challenges
• Custom yt-dlp sources and automatic yt-dlp updates
• Intents for automation with apps like Tasker

🎨 App

• Material You design with theming options and a customizable bottom navigation
• Incognito mode so no history or logs are saved
• Download logs, search history and a detailed download history with different card layouts
• Backup and restore almost everything, right from the welcome screen too
• Files manager to clear caches and leftovers

🧩 Plugin Support

YTDLnis orchestrates plugins so users can freely upgrade and downgrade components such as:

• Python
• JS Runtimes (NodeJS, Deno)
• FFmpeg
• Aria2c

You can install ytdlnis packages from this repository ytdlnis-packages or through the updating section in the application.
For more information refer to the repo's README.

📲 Screenshots

💬 Contact

Join our Discord or Telegram channel for announcements, discussion and releases.

😇 Contributing

Please read the contributing section if you would like to contribute.

📝 Help translate on Weblate

🔑 Connect with third-party apps using the package name

The app's package name is "com.deniscerri.ytdl".

🔍 Verify application signature

The app should contain the signature below. The github workflow action uses it, and the releases are based on it to make it a reproducible build. If the signature is different, your third party distributor has modified the application. Please use the app with the original signature.

Signer #1 certificate DN: CN=Denis Cerri, OU=Personal, O=Personal, L=Albania, ST=Albania, C=AL
Signer #1 certificate SHA-256 digest: 263645cb5272eb290759fe1f59149ae24df6ce171e9f6666eead981d3fc64c95
Signer #1 certificate SHA-1 digest: 2fec9c2fcef68d29a60857e185c795fec5f56fb6
Signer #1 certificate MD5 digest: 429d0c6315d2f99650f66cc44cf5a794

🤖 Connect with third-party apps using intents

You can use intents to push commands to the app to run downloads without user interaction. Accepted variables:

TYPE -> it can be: audio,video,command
BACKGROUND -> it can be: true,false. If its true the app won't show the download card no matter what and run the download in the background

An example of downloading an audio item in the background with Tasker

1. Create Send Intent task
2. Action: android.intent.action.SEND
3. Cat: Default
4. Mime Type: text/*
5. Extra: android.intent.extra.TEXT:url (instead of "url" write the URL of the video you want to download)
6. Extra: TYPE:audio
7. Extra: BACKGROUND:true

📄 License

GNU GPL v3.0

Except for the source code licensed under the GPLv3 license, all other parties are prohibited from using the "YTDLnis" name as a downloader app, and the same is true for its derivatives. Derivatives include but are not limited to forks and unofficial builds.

😁 Donate

🙏 Thanks

• decipher3114 for the app's icon
• dvd for being an example youtubedl-android implementation
• seal for certain design elements and features I wanted to have in this app when I started developing it
• youtubedl-android for porting yt-dlp to Android
• yt-dlp and its contributors for making this tool possible. Without it this app wouldn't exist

and to a lot of other people, such as contributors.