Youwee v0.17.1

A modern, beautiful YouTube downloader built with Tauri.

What's New

Upcoming live scheduling - Added an inline queue action to schedule another download attempt when a YouTube live event has not started yet
Data Export YouTube keyword source - Added a YouTube keyword source so search results can be exported from Data Export
CLI output folder - Added --output / -o so each CLI-queued download can use its own absolute output folder

Schedule controls - Refined the schedule popover and active schedule state with quicker presets, clearer preview text, and a more compact countdown display

FFmpeg app-managed updates - Store the installed app-managed FFmpeg release version so update checks no longer loop when the FFmpeg binary reports an internal git build version
FFmpeg dependency status - Show auto-detected system FFmpeg as System instead of App managed, and report clearer app-managed install verification errors
yt-dlp bundled version - Prefer the sidecar shipped with the current app build so old app-managed binaries no longer mask newer bundled releases
Channel yt-dlp source - Fixed Channel browsing to respect the selected yt-dlp source/channel, including Stable and System
Escaped pasted URLs - Normalize shell-escaped URL punctuation in Download, Universal, and Gallery inputs so pasted links like watch\?v\=... enqueue the intended video
CLI escaped URLs - Normalize shell-escaped URL punctuation so quoted YouTube URLs like watch\?v\=... download the intended video
Scheduled livestream errors - Show clear upcoming livestream messages instead of grouping scheduled YouTube lives into generic skipped or unspecified errors
Windows CLI output - Fixed youwee -V and youwee --help not printing output in Windows terminals

Platform	File	Description
🍎 Mac (M1/M2/M3/M4)	`Youwee-Mac-Apple-Silicon.dmg`	For Apple Silicon Macs
🍎 Mac (Intel)	`Youwee-Mac-Intel.dmg`	For Intel-based Macs
🪟 Windows	`Youwee-Windows.msi`	MSI Installer
🪟 Windows	`Youwee-Windows-Setup.exe`	EXE Installer
🐧 Linux	`Youwee-Linux.deb`	Debian/Ubuntu
🐧 Linux	`Youwee-Linux.AppImage`	Portable (all distros)
🌐 Extension (Chromium)	`Youwee-Extension-Chromium.zip`	Unzip and load unpacked on Chrome/Edge/Brave
🦊 Extension (Firefox)	`Youwee-Extension-Firefox-signed.xpi`	Signed unlisted add-on for Firefox stable

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)

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.

Download SHA256SUMS.txt and verify:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.17.1