EasyTube

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A simple, cross-platform video downloader powered by yt-dlp. Works on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Features

• One-click download — paste a URL, pick quality, done
• Clipboard auto-detect — toggle to detect copied video links automatically
• Smart duplicate detection — warns if same URL + same quality was already downloaded
• Parallel downloads — download multiple videos at once (configurable 1-60)
• Three languages — 繁體中文 / 简体中文 / English
• AI-ready — built-in MCP server for Claude Desktop, Cursor, opencode
• CLI mode — easytube download <url> for terminal users
• No tracking, no telemetry — clipboard contents never leave your device

Install

macOS

Download the .dmg from Releases.

Or via Homebrew (coming soon):

brew install easytube

Windows

Download the .msi installer from Releases.

Or via winget (coming soon):

winget install EasyTube

Linux

Download .deb or .AppImage from Releases.

Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js >= 22
• pnpm >= 9
• Rust >= 1.85

Setup

pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev

Scripts

Script	Description
pnpm dev	Start Vite dev server
pnpm tauri dev	Start Tauri desktop app
pnpm build	Build frontend
pnpm check	TypeScript type-check
pnpm test	Run frontend tests
pnpm lint	Biome lint check
pnpm i18n:generate	Generate zh-CN from zh-TW via OpenCC
pnpm tauri build	Build production binaries

Project Structure

src/                React 19 + Vite 7 + Tailwind v4 + shadcn/ui + use-intl
src-tauri/          Tauri 2.11 desktop shell (Rust)
crates/
  core/             Download engine, filter pipeline, binary provider
  mcp/              MCP stdio server (AI assistant integration)
  cli/              CLI subcommands (download, probe, history)

MCP Server

EasyTube can act as an MCP server for AI assistants:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "easytube": {
      "command": "easytube",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

See docs/mcp-setup.md for details.

CLI

easytube download <url> [-f <format>] [-o <output_dir>]
easytube probe <url>
easytube history
easytube settings [<key> [<value>]]

Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Desktop	Tauri 2.11 (Rust)
Frontend	React 19 + Vite 7 + TypeScript 5.8
CSS	Tailwind CSS v4 + shadcn/ui v4 (radix-vega)
Icons	lucide-react
i18n	use-intl + OpenCC tw2sp
Caching	TanStack Query v5 + IndexedDB (idb-keyval)
Lint/Format	Biome (JS/TS) + rustfmt + clippy (Rust)
Test	Vitest + cargo test

License

MIT © EasyTube Contributors

Disclaimer

EasyTube is a tool for downloading publicly available videos for personal use. Please respect the terms of service of the platforms you use.