Show HN: YouTube-DL GUI Powered by Electron

Re:Show HN: YouTube-DL GUI Powered by Electron by mayeaux on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @01:18PM (#20337225)

Electron is a small Chromium browser that can interact with Node.JS, youtube-dl is packaged with this app as a node package manager dependency. The youtube-dl binary is downloaded and then called via a child process, let me know if that clears things up for you.

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Re:Show HN: YouTube-DL GUI Powered by Electron by geokon on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @03:57AM (#20342468)

So you need to have the python runtime installed for this to work? Or is that downloaded as well?

I was just thinking I could for instance make a similar JavaFX crossplatform GUI on the JVM, but I'd have no idea how to call the youtube-dl python code. So I'm just curious how Electron solves that problem :)

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Re:Show HN: YouTube-DL GUI Powered by Electron by mayeaux on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @01:08PM (#20346281)

No you just need the prereqs to run node, the binary comes compiled already

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Re:Show HN: YouTube-DL GUI Powered by Electron by geokon on Saturday July 06, 2019 @09:51AM (#20369657)

Oh okay with precompuled binaries then that's not so crossplatform. Thanks for clarifying :)

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