Professional Media Downloader

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I was bored and decided to make an app that can download m3u8 files from any website, and save it as mp4. All you need to do is grab the m3u8 link from the website, by copying the link in the video player, or by using F12 to grab the link.

Save these two files in a folder and run python3 bootstrap.py. This will download all the files into a temp container.

Note: This application is in beta, and hasn’t been long term tested. Use at your own risk. 

app.py

import sys
import re
import yt_dlp
from PySide6.QtCore import QThread, Signal, Qt
from PySide6.QtWidgets import (QApplication, QMainWindow, QVBoxLayout,
QLineEdit, QPushButton, QTableWidget,
QTableWidgetItem, QWidget, QHBoxLayout,
QHeaderView, QLabel)
from PySide6.QtGui import QFont

class DownloadWorker(QThread):
status_update = Signal(int, str)

def __init__(self, row, url, filename):
super().__init__()
self.row = row
self.url = url
self.filename = filename

def run(self):
self.ansi_escape = re.compile(r'\x1b\[[0-9;]*m')
ydl_opts = {
'progress_hooks': [self.hook],
'outtmpl': f'./downloads/{self.filename}.%(ext)s',
'format': 'best',
'merge_output_format': 'mp4'
}
try:
with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
ydl.download([self.url])
self.status_update.emit(self.row, "✓ Completed")
except Exception:
self.status_update.emit(self.row, "⚠ Error")

def hook(self, d):
if d['status'] == 'downloading':
raw_p = d.get('_percent_str', '0%')
clean_p = self.ansi_escape.sub('', raw_p).strip()
self.status_update.emit(self.row, f"Downloading: {clean_p}")

class DownloaderApp(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.setWindowTitle("Professional Media Downloader")
self.setMinimumSize(850, 550)

# Pink Theme Stylesheet
self.setStyleSheet("""
QMainWindow { background-color: #1e1e1e; }
QLineEdit {
padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #333; border-radius: 6px;
color: #e0e0e0; background: #2d2d2d; font-size: 14px;
}
QPushButton {
padding: 10px 20px; background-color: #e91e63; color: white;
border-radius: 6px; font-weight: bold; border: none;
}
QPushButton:hover { background-color: #c2185b; }
QTableWidget {
background-color: #252526; color: #d4d4d4;
gridline-color: #333; selection-background-color: #880e4f;
}
QHeaderView::section { background-color: #333; color: #fff; padding: 8px; border: none; }
QLabel#HeaderLabel { color: #e91e63; font-weight: bold; }
""")

self.workers = []

main_widget = QWidget()
layout = QVBoxLayout()
layout.setContentsMargins(20, 20, 20, 20)

# Header
header = QLabel("Add New Download Task")
header.setObjectName("HeaderLabel")
layout.addWidget(header)

# Input Area
input_layout = QHBoxLayout()
self.url_input = QLineEdit(placeholderText="Paste URL here...")
self.name_input = QLineEdit(placeholderText="Filename...")
self.btn = QPushButton("Start Download")
input_layout.addWidget(self.url_input, stretch=3)
input_layout.addWidget(self.name_input, stretch=1)
input_layout.addWidget(self.btn)
layout.addLayout(input_layout)

# Table
self.table = QTableWidget(0, 3)
self.table.setHorizontalHeaderLabels(["URL", "Filename", "Status"])
self.table.horizontalHeader().setStretchLastSection(True)
layout.addWidget(self.table)

# Clickable Pink Footer
footer = QLabel('<a href="https://taksshack.com/members/thumbtak/" style="color: #e91e63; text-decoration: none;">Created by thumbtak @ https://taksshack.com/members/thumbtak/</a>')
footer.setAlignment(Qt.AlignCenter)
footer.setOpenExternalLinks(True)
footer.setStyleSheet("font-size: 11px; margin-top: 10px;")
layout.addWidget(footer)

main_widget.setLayout(layout)
self.setCentralWidget(main_widget)

self.btn.clicked.connect(self.add_task)

def add_task(self):
row = self.table.rowCount()
self.table.insertRow(row)
self.table.setItem(row, 0, QTableWidgetItem(self.url_input.text()))
self.table.setItem(row, 1, QTableWidgetItem(self.name_input.text()))
self.table.setItem(row, 2, QTableWidgetItem("Initializing..."))

worker = DownloadWorker(row, self.url_input.text(), self.name_input.text())
worker.status_update.connect(lambda r, s: self.table.setItem(r, 2, QTableWidgetItem(s)))

self.workers.append(worker)
worker.start()

self.url_input.clear()
self.name_input.clear()

def closeEvent(self, event):
for worker in self.workers:
if worker.isRunning():
worker.terminate()
worker.wait()
event.accept()

if __name__ == "__main__":
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
app.setFont(QFont("Segoe UI", 10))
window = DownloaderApp()
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec())

bootstrap.py

import os
import subprocess
import venv
import shutil

VENV_DIR = ".temp_env"

def setup():
if not os.path.exists(VENV_DIR):
print("Creating temporary environment...")
venv.create(VENV_DIR, with_pip=True)

pip_path = os.path.join(VENV_DIR, 'bin', 'pip')
python_path = os.path.join(VENV_DIR, 'bin', 'python')

print("Installing dependencies...")
subprocess.check_call([pip_path, "install", "yt-dlp", "PySide6"])

print("Launching application...")
try:
subprocess.call([python_path, "app.py"])
finally:
print("Cleaning up environment...")
if os.path.exists(VENV_DIR):
shutil.rmtree(VENV_DIR)

if __name__ == "__main__":
setup()

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