Youwee v0.20.0

Beautiful and Ultimate yt-dlp GUI & Video Downloader - Processing - Free & Open Source

What's New

Added

• Japanese language - Added Japanese translations for the app interface
• Spanish language - Added Spanish translations for the app interface
• Universal codec selection - Added video codec choices to Universal downloads
• Long video AI Summary - Added format options and connected multi-part summaries so detailed summaries for long videos preserve more context
• Linux Flatpak package - Added a Flatpak release bundle for Linux users on modern distributions where AppImage may require extra FUSE packages

Changed

• Flatpak updates - Skip the built-in AppImage updater when Youwee runs from Flatpak so updates can be managed by Flatpak instead

Fixed

• Windows titlebar maximize - Fixed double-clicking the custom titlebar on Windows maximizing and immediately restoring the window
• Open in folder actions - Routed file reveal actions through Youwee's platform-aware app command for more reliable folder opening
• Dependency detection - Added ~/.local/bin to Unix dependency lookup so GUI-launched apps can find user-installed tools more reliably
• Firefox cookie profiles - Use the real Firefox profile folder or absolute profile path from profiles.ini for browser-cookie downloads while keeping display names in Settings
• Unicode download titles - Preserve Unicode video titles from metadata and UTF-8 final file paths instead of falling back to lossy progress output
• Pasted text URLs - Extract HTTP(S) links from pasted text across Download, Universal, Gallery, and metadata inputs
• Windows safe filenames - Harden yt-dlp filename handling on Windows with path-aware trimming and Windows-safe filename rules without changing output templates
• OpenAI summaries - Automatically adjust OpenAI and OpenAI-compatible Proxy sampling parameters so legacy and reasoning models can generate summaries without 400 errors

Download

📋 Requirements

• Windows: Windows 10 or later
• macOS: 10.15 (Catalina) or later
• Linux: Ubuntu 20.04 or equivalent

Optional

• FFmpeg - for best video/audio quality (auto-download available in Settings)
• Gallery-dl - for download images from supported sites (self-setup required)

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:

:::bash
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

What's Changed

• Let native titlebar dragging handle double-click maximize by @anhtahaylove in https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/pull/91
• Find user-local Unix binaries during dependency lookup by @anhtahaylove in https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/pull/92
• fix(ui): route file reveal actions through app command by @anhtahaylove in https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/pull/96
• Keep Unicode titles from lossy download output by @anhtahaylove in https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/pull/98
• feat(ui): extract URLs from pasted text in shared parser by @anhtahaylove in https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/pull/99
• fix(windows): improve yt-dlp filename safety without changing defaults by @blueyi in https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/pull/100
• feat: add self-correcting OpenAI sampling-param handling by @thuytx03 in https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/pull/101
• Use Firefox profile folder names for browser cookies by @anhtahaylove in https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/pull/89

New Contributors

• @anhtahaylove made their first contribution in https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/pull/91
• @blueyi made their first contribution in https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/pull/100
• @thuytx03 made their first contribution in https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/pull/101

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vanloctech/youwee/compare/v0.19.0...v0.20.0