LiveLeaper

LiveLeaper is a Python tool for easily downloading YouTube videos.
It supports both a command line (CLI) version and a GUI version included as a sub-module.

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✅ Features

• 🎬 YouTube support - supports downloading high quality videos (using yt-dlp)
• 🖥️ CLI & GUI both support - can be used even by people who are not good with terminal
• ⚡ Fast and stable - parses streaming URLs directly instead of official API
• 🪟 Multi-OS support - runs on Windows / macOS / Linux.

Fast and stable - parses streaming URLs directly instead of through official APIs

🖥️ System Requirements

• Python 3.8 or higher
• OS: Windows 10+ / macOS 10.14+ / Debian Linux (Ubuntu, etc.)

📦 Installation instructions

# Clone the repository (including submodules)
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/yunfie-twitter/LiveLeaper.git
cd LiveLeaper

# Install necessary packages
pip install -r requirements.txt

🎛 Use the GUI version.

cd LiveLeaper-GUI
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

Click here to view the Github repository for GUI projects.

⚙️ How to use the CLI version

python main.py [URL1 URL2 ...] [options].

Available options Option Description --audio Extract and save audio only (according to default configuration file) --ext Specify output file extension (e.g. mp4, webm, mp3) --output Specify destination directory (e.g., downloads) --lang Specify language file (e.g. en, ja) --info Get only video information without downloading

🤝 How to contribute

Pull Requests and Issues are welcome!

# Create a branch
git checkout -b feature/your-feature

# Edit code and commit
git commit -m “Add new feature”

# Push to create a PR
git push origin feature/your-feature

Sponsor this project By Ko-Fi.