ArcDLP - Desktop app to download videos and playlists from YouTube, Instagram, Twitter/X, Vimeo, SoundCloud and 1000+ other sites. Free, open source, zero setup.

I know there are already ways to download videos. Chrome extensions, terminal tools, websites with a million ads. But I was learning Electron and wanted to build something actually useful for myself. Something where you just download the app, paste a URL and go. No installing Python, no downloading binaries, no terminal. yt-dlp and ffmpeg are bundled inside so there's zero setup.

ArcDLP is a desktop app for Linux (also Mac and Windows). Here's what it can do:

* Download videos (uses yt-dlp under the hood) in up to 4K, or extract audio as MP3/OPUS
* Playlist support. Select the items you want, pick a format, queue them all at once
* Instagram saved collections. yt-dlp doesn't actually support these, so I built a scraper that grabs every post from a collection and queues them for download
* Sign in to YouTube and Instagram to access private, age-restricted and members-only content
* Download queue that keeps going even if something fails. One broken link doesn't kill the rest
* Download history with cached metadata for quick re-access
* Simple, clean and easy to use UI with light and dark mode :)

No cloud, no accounts, no tracking, no ads. Everything runs locally on your machine.

[https://github.com/archisvaze/arcdlp](https://github.com/archisvaze/arcdlp)

It's open source so issues and contributions welcome. Hopefully you find it useful!

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