A Faster Parabolic 💨💨

V2024.10.0 is here!

This update features a brand new rewrite of Parabolic in C++. Users should now have a faster and more stable downloading experience, with the continued reliability and customizability loved by our users.

We have also redesigned the user interfaces on both the GNOME and Windows platforms to make it easier to find the Parabolic features you love and want to use. We have also refined and improved the options available when configuring individual downloads, playlists, and Parabolic as a whole. Besides new things, we have fixed tons of bugs throughout the downloading backend that users have been waiting for.

We hope you all love this release as much as we loved making it! A huge thank you to all users who worked with us in fixing issues, testing the betas, contributing translations and more ❤️

Full Changelog 📃

• Parabolic has been rewritten in C++ for faster performance
• The Keyring module was rewritten. As a result, all keyrings have been reset and will need to be reconfigured
• Audio languages with audio description are now correctly recognized and handled separately from audio languages without audio description
• Audio download qualities will now list audio bitrates for the user to choose from
• Playlist downloads will now be saved in a subdirectory with the playlist's title within the chosen save folder
• When viewing the log of a download, the command used to run the download can now also be copied to the clipboard
• The length of the kept download history can now be changed in Preferences
• On non-sandbox platforms, a browser can be selected for Parabolic to fetch cookies from instead of selecting a txt file in Preferences
• Added an option in Preferences to allow for immediate download after a URL is validated
• Added an option in Preferences to pick a preferred video codec for when downloading video media
• Fixed validation issues with various sites
• Fixed an issue where a specified video password was not being used
• Redesigned user interface
• Updated yt-dlp

Install 🧑‍💻

GNOME (Linux only)

Flathub

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.nickvision.tubeconverter
flatpak run org.nickvision.tubeconverter

snap-store:

sudo snap install tube-converter

AUR

The parabolic package

Manually (x64 only)

• Download the org.nickvision.tubeconverter.gnome.flatpak file from the assets below
• Run flatpak install org.nickvision.tubeconverter.gnome.flatpak from the directory containing the .flatpak file
• Run flatpak run org.nickvision.tubeconverter//master to start the app! (You should also see it in your app grid)

QT

Windows (x64 only)

• Download and run the NickvisionParabolicSetup.exe file from the assets below

Linux (x64 only)

• Download the org.nickvision.tubeconverter.qt.flatpak file from the assets below
• Run flatpak install org.nickvision.tubeconverter.qt.flatpak from the directory containing the .flatpak file
• Run flatpak run org.nickvision.tubeconverter//master to start the app! (You should also see it in your app grid)