LoadTube

Small project in C using SDL3 to create a minimalist UI for downloading Youtube videos via their links.

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Features

• Creation of a graphical window using SDL3.
• Text field for entering a video link.
• Keyboard input / clipboard handling.
• Real-time display of typed text within the window.
• Video download

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Prerequisites

• SDL3 and SDL_ttf
• CMake
• yt-dlp standalone

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Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/SqualFost/LoadTube.git
cd LoadTube

2. Install dependencies

   For macOS (Brew) :

    brew install sdl3 sdl3_ttf cmake yt-dlp

   For Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) :

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install libsdl3-dev libsdl3-ttf-dev cmake build-essential

   For Windows (Chocolatey):

    choco install sdl3 sdl3-ttf cmake

   • Might not be available since SDL3 is new

3. Open the project in your ide and configure cmake

Compilation and execution

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
./yt-dl

• An SDL window will open with a text field
• Enter the video URL then click "Download"
• Text will be displayed and be used to display the download status (not done)
• The video will be downloaded in the cmake-build-debug folder

Notes

• Everything is basic, thanks to C UI
• The video is dowloading there's just no text to display the status.

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Open to contributions <3