Video Downloader

Improvement - January 28, 2026

• Added MP3 format option for audio downloads
• Fixed slow video info loading for playlist URLs
• Fixed download progress not updating in real-time

Fix: Windows Path Resolution Issues - December 7, 2025

• Resolved error with winget command detection on Windows systems
• Fixed path validation issue where fs.existsSync() incorrectly returned false for existing Windows paths

Feat: Windows Update Libraries Support - December 7, 2025

• Added support for updating yt-dlp and FFmpeg on Windows using winget

Improvement - November 11, 2025

• Updated extension icon.

Fix: Update Button Text to "Open in Explorer" on Windows - October 20, 2025

• The text on the "Open in Finder" button will now display "Open in Explorer" on Windows.

Fix: Instagram Same Title Issue - October 3, 2025

• Resolved a bug where videos from the same Instagram user overwrote each other due to identical filenames. Filenames now include both username and video ID for uniqueness.
• Updated dependencies.

Fix: Long Video Name Compatibility - September 29, 2025

• Resolved issues with long video names on Windows and macOS.
• Automatically removes invalid characters from video file names to ensure compatibility.

Fix: Add install flags - September 15, 2025

• Added acceptance flags when installing packages with winget.

Feat: Windows Support - September 12, 2025

• Added support for Windows OS, enabling video downloads and transcript extraction on Windows devices.
• Ensured compatibility with Windows-specific file paths and dependencies.
• Improved installation and setup instructions for Windows users.
• Fixed platform-specific bugs to provide a seamless experience across Windows and macOS.

Chore: Fixed a typo in the installation view - August 22, 2025

Chore - March 10, 2025

• Rename extension folder and handle to video-downloader

Fixes - March 7, 2025

• Avoid to run onSubmit while fetching video

Features - March 5, 2025

Enhanced extension with AI. You can now download videos and extract transcripts by @-mentioning the extension in Raycast AI.

• Add a new tool for downloading videos
• Add a new tool for extracting transcripts

Improvements - March 5, 2025

• Add support to manage installed Homebrew libraries
• Add support for checking if libraries outdated
• Adjust preferences usage code to make used options more intuitive
• Organize command views to keep entry file clean
• Update tsconfig lib to es2022 to match Node.js 18

Features - March 4, 2025

• Add support for downloading all possible formats
• Use a short & good video for placeholder
• Update screenshot

Improvements & Fixes - February 21, 2025

• Use execa instead of nano-spawn for advanced usages
• Fix Homebrew installer & use more friendly toasts with actions for downloader & Homebrew installer
• Add some troubleshooting tips to preference descriptions
• Update extension description to cover more users
• Bump all dependencies to the latest

Improvement - February 21, 2025

• Add an experimental preference option for forcing IPv4 to solve some network issues
• Add a message to remind users not to close the current window while installing homebrew packages

Enhancements - February 17, 2025

• Unlock its full ability from all sites
• Move the warning message to the form description
• Only show download failed message on errors
• Fix live video condition
• Add a link accessory to the form view to show the supported sites
• Mention the yt-dlp in readme
• Mention supported sites in readme
• Comment Can I download clips from YouTube out since we don't support it yet
• Update screenshots since the format selector is not ready yet

Improvement - February 15, 2025

• Add a preference option for toggling read URL from clipboard support
• Add a preference option for toggling read URL from selected text support

Fixes - February 12, 2025

• Add a preference option for toggling Browser Extension support

Improve Error Message - February 4, 2025

• Improve error message
• Fix URL validator while link has no protocol prefix
• Replace execa with nano-spawn
• Adjust import orders
• Fix yt-dlp from preferences

Fixes - February 3, 2025

• Fixed error: Unable to get selected text from frontmost application

Insert active tab URL - February 2, 2025

• If the raycast browser extension is installed, the extension will automatically insert the active tab URL into the input field

Improve URL Validator - January 23, 2025

• Improve isYouTubeURL function
• Bump all dependencies to the latest

Simplify Extension - January 22, 2025

• Simplified the extension by focusing on core functionality and relying on the yt-dlp executable instead of fork libraries which give so many issues.

Enhancement - November 25, 2024

• Update README with FAQs

Fixed bug #15306 - November 11, 2024

• Fixed the highest quality bug

Add WAV support - October 21, 2024

• Added WAV support for audio downloads

Remove empty dropdown items - August 29, 2024

• Removed empty dropdown items from the format selection to improve user experience
• Added mp3 keyword for audio options

Update package dependency - August 12, 2024

• Update the @dustube/ytdl-core dependency to resolve the video download failure issue.

Fix video not found - August 1, 2024

• Update the @dustube/ytdl-core dependency to fix the video not found issue

Fix Live Premiere video download - July 30, 2024

• Fix the live premiere video download issue

Fix download failed - July 16, 2024

• Replace the ytdl-core with @distube/ytdl-core to fix the download failed issue

Update copy the video or audio file name with the video title - July 5, 2024

• Update copy the video or audio file name with the video title
• Fix the key rendering problem in the format dropdown

Fix FFmpeg v7 error - May 26, 2024

Update FFmpeg installation docs - April 17, 2024

Error handling for livestreams - October 28, 2023

• Show unsupported error message for livestreams links

Better error handling - October 28, 2023

Add trimming support - September 3, 2023

• Added optional Start Time and End Time fields to trim the output video

Sanitizing file name - August 8, 2023

Added new format - August 5, 2023

• Updated ytdl-core dependency from ^4.11.4 to ^4.11.5
• Added an option to enable .webm for higher quality downloads

Custom `ffmpeg` path - July 8, 2023

• Added a preference so users can configure the ffmpeg executable path

Added metadata images - June 19, 2023

• Added metadata images
• Updated dependencies

Initial Version - March 28, 2023