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Youwee v0.6.0

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6 months ago

🎬 Youwee v0.6.0

A modern, beautiful YouTube downloader built with Tauri.

✨ What's New

Changed

  • Replaced Bun with Deno - Now uses Deno runtime for YouTube JavaScript extraction (required by yt-dlp)
  • Auto-download Deno on first launch - App automatically downloads Deno if not installed
  • Setup progress dialog - Shows "Setting Up YouTube Support" popup when downloading Deno on first launch

Fixed

  • YouTube downloads with bundled Deno - Fixed path escaping issue when Deno is installed in Application Support folder (paths with spaces)
  • Use --js-runtimes flag - Switched from --extractor-args to --js-runtimes deno:PATH for better compatibility
  • yt-dlp update not taking effect - Fixed issue where updated yt-dlp version was not used after restart (now prioritizes user-updated version over bundled)

📥 Download

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)

📋 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)

🔐 Verify Downloads

Download SHA256SUMS.txt and verify:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

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