VidPull

A small, fast YouTube downloader for Windows. No ads, no shady redirects, no "click here to continue" pop-ups. Just a paste-box, a download button, and the file ends up where you told it to.

Why

Every web-based YT downloader I tried was 90% ads and 10% bait-and-switch. So I packaged yt-dlp behind a tiny Tk GUI and called it a day.

Features

• MP4 up to 1080p, or MP3 up to 320kbps
• Playlist mode — toggle the box, paste a playlist URL, walk away
• Real progress bar with live speed + ETA (it actually moves)
• Thumbnail preview before you commit to a download
• Recent downloads list — double-click to open the folder
• Clipboard paste button next to the URL field
• Remembers your last save folder and quality choices between runs
• Single portable .exe, no Python install required

Quick start

1. Grab VidPull.exe from this repo.
2. Run it. Paste a URL. Click download.

Windows Defender sometimes flags PyInstaller exes as a false positive. If that bothers you, run from source — see below.

Run from source

git clone https://github.com/rawfilejson/VidPull.git
cd "VidPull/Source Code"
pip install -r requirements.txt
python GUI.py

You'll also want ffmpeg on your PATH for MP4 merging and MP3 conversion. On Windows: winget install Gyan.FFmpeg.

Project layout

Source Code/
├─ GUI.py            tkinter front-end
├─ yt_backend.py     yt-dlp wrapper (info, thumbnail, download)
├─ requirements.txt
└─ assets/           icons
VidPull.exe          the bundled portable build

Roadmap-ish

Things I might add when I have an evening:

• subtitle download toggle
• batch URL queue
• dark/light theme toggle
• per-channel download presets

PRs welcome, file a bug if you hit one.

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