🎬 Youwee v0.16.0

A modern, beautiful YouTube downloader built with Tauri.

✨ What's New

Added

• Persistent download queue - Added an optional Download setting to save YouTube, Universal, and Gallery queue items in the app database so queued items can be restored after closing and reopening Youwee
• Data Export - Added a new Data Export workspace for exporting YouTube playlist and channel data, choosing exactly which fields to include, saving files in formats such as CSV, Excel, JSON, Markdown, HTML, SQLite, and Word, and keeping exported files in Library for later access
• Telegram Remote Download - Added a Remote Download settings section with Telegram long-polling control, allowed chat ID tags, bot command guide, /add, /download, /status, /queue, /stop, and /help support, plus optional quality shortcuts such as 720, audio, and mp3

Changed

• Download queue additions while running - Allowed adding new URLs to YouTube, Universal, and Gallery queues while downloads are already running, with queue workers waiting briefly for newly added items before ending the active session
• YouTube format selection - Changed the default YouTube video codec to Auto so new downloads no longer force H.264-only format selection and better match Universal downloads for videos without matching AVC streams

Fixed

• Linux deb install conflict - Renamed the bundled yt-dlp sidecar to a Youwee-specific binary name so .deb installs no longer conflict with distro-managed yt-dlp packages
• System dependency paths - Improved Windows PATH resolution for yt-dlp, FFmpeg, Deno, gallery-dl, and helper tools
• Firefox cookie profile selection - Prioritized the active Firefox profile from profiles.ini so browser-cookie downloads target the profile where cookies are most likely stored

📥 Download

📋 Requirements

• Windows: Windows 10 or later
• macOS: 10.15 (Catalina) or later
• Linux: Ubuntu 22.04 or equivalent

🔧 Optional

• FFmpeg - for best video/audio quality (auto-download available in Settings)
• Bun Runtime - if you can only download 360p from YouTube (auto-download available in Settings)

🌐 Browser Extension Install

• Chromium: download Youwee-Extension-Chromium.zip -> extract -> open chrome://extensions -> enable Developer mode -> Load unpacked.
• Firefox: download Youwee-Extension-Firefox-signed.xpi and open it directly to install.

🔐 Verify Downloads

Download SHA256SUMS.txt and verify:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

Full Changelog: v0.15.1...v0.16.0