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Use this command to install Nickvision Parabolic:
winget install --id=Nickvision.Parabolic -e

Download web video and audio

Nickvision Parabolic is a yt-dlp frontend designed to simplify downloading videos and audio from supported platforms. It offers multi-format support for files like mp4, webm, mp3, and more, enabling users to download media in their preferred format.

Key Features:

  • Multi-Format Support: Download videos and audio in various formats such as mp4, webm, mp3, opus, flac, and wav.
  • Simultaneous Downloads: Run multiple downloads at the same time for efficient workflow.
  • Metadata and Subtitles: Include video metadata and subtitles during download for enhanced media organization.

Audience & Benefit: Ideal for content creators, educators, and individuals looking to archive or reuse online media. It provides an easy-to-use interface for downloading high-quality videos and audio files without technical complexity.

Nickvision Parabolic can be installed via winget, ensuring seamless integration across supported platforms.

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Features

  • A basic yt-dlp frontend (supported sites)
  • Supports downloading videos in multiple formats (mp4, webm, mp3, opus, flac, and wav)
  • Run multiple downloads at a time
  • Supports downloading metadata and video subtitles

Disclaimer

The authors of Nickvision Parabolic are not responsible/liable for any misuse of this program that may violate local copyright/DMCA laws. Users use this application at their own risk.

Installation

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Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how can you help the project and how to provide information so we can help you in case of troubles with the app.

Screenshots

GNOME

Home Page Downloading Dark Mode Add Download Dialog

Qt

Home Page Downloading Dark Mode Add Download Dialog

Building Manually

Parabolic uses vcpkg to manage its dependencies and cmake as its build system.

Ensure both vcpkg and cmake are installed on your system before building.

A C++20 compiler is also required to build Parabolic.

If building the GNOME version, blueprint-compiler must be installed from your system package manager as it is not available on vcpkg.

Configuring vcpkg

  1. Set the VCPKG_ROOT environment variable to the path of your vcpkg installation's root directory.

Windows

  1. Set the VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET environment variable to x64-windows
  2. Run vcpkg install boost-date-time gtest libnick qtbase qtsvg qttools

Linux (GNOME)

  1. Set the VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET environment variable to x64-linux
  2. Run vcpkg install boost-date-time gtest libnick libxmlpp

Linux (Qt)

  1. Set the VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET environment variable to x64-linux
  2. Run vcpkg install boost-date-time gtest libnick qtbase qtsvg qttools

Building

  1. First, clone/download the repo.
  2. Open a terminal and navigate to the repo's root directory.
  3. Create a new build directory and cd into it.

Windows

  1. From the build folder, run cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 17 2022".
  2. From the build folder, run cmake --build . --config Release.
  3. After these commands complete, Parabolic will be successfully built and its binaries can be found in the org.nickvision.tubeconverter.qt/Release folder of the build folder.

Linux (GNOME)

  1. From the build folder, run cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DUI_PLATFORM=gnome.
  2. From the build folder, run cmake --build ..
  3. After these commands complete, Parabolic will be successfully built and its binaries can be found in the org.nickvision.tubeconverter.gnome folder of the build folder.

Linux (Qt)

  1. From the build folder, run cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DUI_PLATFORM=qt.
  2. From the build folder, run cmake --build ..
  3. After these commands complete, Parabolic will be successfully built and its binaries can be found in the org.nickvision.tubeconverter.qt folder of the build folder.

Code of Conduct

This project follows the GNOME Code of Conduct.

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