PineFetch

Local Tauri desktop UI for yt-dlp with a minimal terminal-inspired interface. Designed for legitimate use-cases only (your uploads, Creative Commons/Public Domain, or content you have explicit permission to download).

Note: Please only download content you have the rights or permission to access.

Features

• Tauri app
• Minimal dark UI with split view
• Queue (FIFO), cancel, progress, ETA/speed
• yt-dlp spawned with argument array (no shell strings)
• Info fetch via --dump-json (title/uploader/duration/thumbnail)
• Persisted config (yt-dlp path + default output directory)

Setup

Prerequisites

• Rust toolchain (stable)
• Node.js
• Tauri CLI
• yt-dlp installed and available in PATH, or set a custom path in the app
• ffmpeg + ffprobe (required for merging streams, audio extraction, and text preset)
• deno (recommended for reliable YouTube extraction in recent yt-dlp versions)
• Optional for local dev of text preset: Python 3 + faster-whisper (pip install faster-whisper)

Install

npm install

Run (dev)

npm run dev

Build

npm run build

npm run build now prepares and bundles a local fast-whisper runtime under src-tauri/resources/whisper-runtime and a local ffmpeg runtime under src-tauri/resources/ffmpeg-runtime, plus a local deno runtime under src-tauri/resources/deno-runtime, before creating the app bundle.

yt-dlp location

• If yt-dlp is in your PATH, the app will find it automatically.
• Otherwise, set the full path in Settings → yt-dlp Pfad.
• PineFetch automatically tries to use ffmpeg/ffprobe from the same directory as yt-dlp.

Legal/Use-Case Notes

• This app is for legitimate usage only: your own uploads, Creative Commons/Public Domain, or content with explicit permission to download.
• No DRM or paywall circumvention is supported or promoted.