YTConverter™

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YTConverter™ is a Python-based project developed by kaifcodec designed to provide a robust tool for converting YouTube videos into various formats. This tool simplifies the process of downloading and converting videos from YouTube.

✅ Features

Video Downloading : Fetch videos directly from YouTube.
Audio Downloading.: Downloads audio of any video with wide range of bitrate selection.
Multiple video download.: Now you can download multiple videos using the tool, just paste the urls one by one.
Subtitles: Subtitles download support.
Playlist download: Full playlist download in mp3 or mp4 format with subtitles
Detailed Quality : It fetches all the available resolutions for the video and let you select as per your need.
Path selections : It has inbuilt features to detect Downloads folder according to what platform user in.
Custom Path : Also you can enter your suitable path for every video.
Title sanitization : It has inbuilt re module implementation that converts special characters to text, avoiding errors
Format Conversion.: Convert downloaded videos into different formats such as MP3, MP4, etc.
Metadata Handling : Extract and manage metadata associated with YouTube videos.
Colored output : Colorful terminal output that make it easier to select options.
Interactive CLI : It provides interactive CLI menu that is way easier than using commands everytime.
Auto Update : You can simply run ytconverter -U and it will update yt-dlp and ytconverter to latest version, even it can auto detect whenever there's a new release of ytconverter.
Many more features inside try them all...

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Requirements

Python 3.x
Required Python libraries (listed in requirements.txt)
ffmpeg & yt-dlp binary

🧩 Installation

🐧 Linux / Termux / macOS

git clone https://github.com/kaifcodec/ytconverter.git
cd ytconverter/standalone/
./install.sh # Auto-setup ffmpeg + dependencies

If install.sh fails, install ffmpeg manually

sudo apt install ffmpeg       # Debian/Ubuntu  
pkg install ffmpeg            # Termux  
sudo dnf install ffmpeg       # Fedora  
sudo pacman -S ffmpeg         # Arch

Install ytconverter from PyPI

pip3 install ytconverter
ytconverter -S

⚙️ Update

Update ytconverter

./update.sh # update to new repo, new yt-dlp version 

ytconverter -U # pypi package

🪟 Windows

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/kaifcodec/ytconverter.git
cd ytconverter/standalone/
install.bat # Or manually install ffmpeg and add it to PATH
pip3 install ytconverter

Then run:

ytconverter -S

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