As someone who spent a lot of time on Windows using IDM to download YouTube videos, I faced a challenge when I switched to Linux: there’s no downloader with that convenient floating icon to grab videos instantly.

Being a broke developer with a problem to solve, I decided to build my own.

I created FastTubeDownloader, inspired by IDM, for Linux. It’s currently v1, but I’ll be improving it iteratively, aiming to make it the biggest open-source downloader in the world.

It uses yt-dlp for downloading YouTube videos and aria2 to speed up downloads.

📥 Installation

Option 1: GitHub Repository
Visit the repo and follow the instructions:
https://github.com/Dawaman43/FastTubeDownloader

Option 2: Quick Install
Run this command in your terminal:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dawaman43/FastTubeDownloader/main/scripts/easy_install.sh | bash

🌐 Browser Integration (Chrome)

Load the extension:

chrome://extensions → Developer Mode → Load unpacked → Select project root


Example project root: /opt/FastTubeDownloader


then clone the repo and open that cloned directory

Generate a permanent extension ID:

python3 tools/generate_extension_key.py


Example output:

Extension ID: ncfjijookndenoockeadgaidnpdlgmeh


Reload the unpacked extension in Chrome.

Run ./setup.sh and enter the Extension ID when prompted, so native host permissions are configured correctly.

I am planning to build something big and I got this score in https://www.dontbuildthis.com/

For this project, I have to master FastAPI, and I have given myself four weeks to learn everything related to it

For learning FastApi i will use the official doc

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

You can follow along and learn with me by checking out this repo
https://github.com/Dawaman43/FastApi

Thanks for the config

https://t.me/sifendev

You can download youtube playlist

Just copy the playlist link from youtube and paste in the app it will download all videos in that playlist

I will fix the progress tracking when I get time

now it shows 0% for completed downloads

Will try it after Fast api

I found this tool today


It creates documentation for your site

try it

We've been coding a lot

But the mid term exam is on monday😭

My hope is now on indian videos

This guy is life saver

I like his accent tho😂

i really like [ elysia ]and it is 21x faster than express which is crazy to me. Their OpenAPI Plugin is really easy one line of code and Auto-serves beautiful Scalar UI at /docs.

Google's Gemini 3 will launch today, it'll be included in the main app and Web and the main part is it's free🙂‍↕️


Rip open ai😁

I have added some fixes for fasttube and improved the ui


and

here is official doc


https://fasttube-docs.vercel.app/

I've seen the extension is removed from chrome after 1 or 2 days, because we did not pay 5$ to google and use load unpacked😭.

So let's shift our focus to firefox for free extension deployment

I've submitted the add-on to firefox


Let's hope they approve it🤞

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