Advanced Youtube Client - AYC

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• Downloads
• Installation
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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• Download from Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Dailymotion, Vimeo and 100s of other websites that yt-dlp supports.
• Automatically saves video chapters, thumbnails and subtitles (User configurable).
• Downloads playlists, channels, keyword topic urls on multiple websites.
• Supports directly searching and downloading from youtube.
• Multithreaded downloads using aria2c to fully utilize the available bandwidth (User configurable).
• Batch mode can create jobs, save urls to them and download, resume, edit, delete.
• Extremely light and instantly responding text based ui.
• Easily editable batch script.
• Compatible with Windows 7 SP1/8/8.1/10/11 (32/64-bit).
• Downloads only. Does not convert to other formats. All formats are given by the website.
• Except for audio. Along with untouched M4A and OPUS audio straight from youtube, there is also a 128k CBR MP3 option.
• Everything is designed to help create muscle memory.

v4.23 - 07/Sep/2024

Changelog

• New: Toggle to enable or disable downloading auto-generated subtitles.
• New: Subtitles support added to custom quality youtube downloads.
• Fixed: Thumbnails were not being shown on custom quality youtube downloads.
• Updated: ffmpeg, atomicparsley.

AYC is available for download at the following websites.

Note: Windows Defender will show a one-time warning before you try to start a batch file downloaded from the internet. You need to click More info and click Run Anyway for it to go away.

1. Download the latest AYC release from above.
2. Extract the ayc folder inside to anywhere on your computer (eg: C:\ayc). Do not extract inside Program Files.
3. Open AYClient.bat and follow the on screen instructions.
4. When you're done there'll be a shortcut created in ayc folder, on the desktop and in start menu. Open it to start using AYC.

1. How to resume a download that got cancelled?

Simply paste the url again and pick the same quality again. All partial downloads are kept in a temporary folder which you can resume anytime you want.

2. How to add my own yt-dlp options?

You can add these in 'ayc\resources\scripts\custom.bat' for each type of downloads. Instructions are in the file itself.

3. How to load cookies to download from sites that need an account?

AYC like yt-dlp supports loading cookies from a cookies.txt file or your browser.

For cookies.txt, all you have to do is place the cookies.txt file inside the ayc folder and start AYC. It'll auto detect it and ask you whether you want to load it or not.

For cookies from your browser, you need to add the following to the appropriate variable in 'ayc\resources\scripts\custom.bat'.

--cookies-from-browser chrome

Supported browsers: 'brave', 'chrome', 'chromium', 'edge', 'opera', 'vivaldi', 'firefox', 'safari'

Cookies.txt is loaded globally for all downloads. If you want to set cookies per site, you can add the cookie option per site in 'ayc\resources\scripts\custom.bat'.

4. Why is the installation so complicated?

AYC used to be compiled to exe files. These exe files extracted the batch script and then ran it which was easier for the user. But one day antiviruses everywhere started flagging this behaviour.

So AYC since v3.6 is released as straight batch files everyone can open with notepad and read. This requires some additional setup.

Some old v2 releases were lost due to this issue from Sourceforge before I could archive them for future reference. Their source codes were fine. The remaining recovered releases (thanks to videohelp) along with all source files and all the new releases are kept in an updated folder on MEGA. If you want you can download them below.

Be advised since then antivirus softwares have improved to detect that these are indeed harmless but some still falsely flag them. Windows defender sometimes does. It's not consistent.

MEGA Archive Link

5. Where are the old releases?

AYC started out on Sourceforge in 2016, it has only been on Github since 2021. Part of the old releases are available on Sourceforge. The complete archive is on MEGA and is always updated each release. The archive is still missing some early files from v2 era. I couldn't recover them.

6. How to remove AYC properly?

AYC can be removed by simply deleting the ayc folder. But do a reset first by going into AYC > Settings > Reset. This is needed to remove desktop, start menu shortcuts.