YouTube DL Applet

This tool is convenient link handler, passing them to youtube-dl.
File name is properly detected by youtube-dl;
If case of multiple download modes for different quality and formats they are listed in menu (using youtube-dl -F option);

INSTALLATION

Just run ./install. For packaging variable DESTDIR is supported.

Runtime dependencies:
- bash
- coreutils
- grep
- kdialog
- notify-send (libnotify, in Debian/Ubuntu - libnotify-bin)
- optionally: some terminal emulator - previously was used to see progress, but now it is essential, using kdialog

USAGE

Place launcher on reachable for drag-n-drop place (panel, dock, etc), then just drag links from browsers to launcher.
Tested with konqueror, firefox and seamonkey, most other should work as well.
You may get some brief help, launching it directly by click.
Begining from version 1.5, it allowes to specify multiple formats for download.

CONFIGURATION

If you want to use default progress monitor, using kdialog, disable all download tools and terminal emulators (by default it is done).

Configuration is done currently by editing of configuration files in text editor. Description of files may be found in brief help.
To disable some "tools" or "term" variants just comment them by sharp (#), no need to remove them.

Since version 1.2.2, configuration files are created anyway if they don't exist, otherwise they are not changed.

CHOOSING DOWNLOAD TOOLS

Since version 1.3, progress is displayed by default, using kdialog.
Also download process may be fully managed by various download managers, using detected link.
However, there is no way for them to detect proper file name.
The only hope is when they accept filename argument; kde copy tool, which is in list by default, does it (its another feature is essential integration with KDE job control system).

Terminal emulator, initially used for progress tracking, may be still useful if you get some youtube-dl bug.
To disable some elements just clean this file (in this case there is nothing to probe).

Contact: nick87720z@gmail.com

TODO
- Integration with KDE KIO job control. May need another big refactoring, probably using other language.

Version 1.5
- Now can download multiple formats
- Show program name in all dialogs (forgot about kde-specific kdialog arguments)
- Program version and tip, how to recover video from youtube DASH files, in short help (still unsure, how better implement it using bash)

Version 1.4.5
- Don't use which command - some distros lack it out of box

Version 1.4.4
- Better desktop notifications, using notify-send instead of kdialog (new dependency, see README)

Version 1.4.3
- kdialog error messages from formats menu generator somehow missed /dev/null
- dev ooops: forgot to remove debug stuff, which printed generated menu and canceled program

Version 1.4.2
- Fixed formats list parser - now works not only with youtube
- Last element in formats list was not shown

Version 1.4.1
- Show url's as url's in all dialogs
- regression: Download formats menu did not appear

Version 1.4
- Show error text and cancel if youtube-dl produced error on first usage attempt
- Formated text in progress dialog

Version 1.3.1
- regression: Did not remember last used directory

Version 1.3
- Code refactoring
- Added support for external download tools
- Added progress dialog for terminal-less mode
- Terminal emulator is disabled by default for progress dialog
- Support for comments and empty lines in files with variants for probing
- Updated readme, extended startup help text
- Create or load non-existing configuration files even without any work

Version 1.2.2
- Added formats menu (auto-detection of best format by youtube-dl is not so perfect yet)
- Changed script backend shell to bash
- In some cases real working dir in terminal emulator was not same as in $PWD variable
- Write default term file if not found
- Extending term config file role: accept list of terminal emulators, probed begining from first
- Finally fixed DEBUG implementation code
- Set console title for terminal with runing youtube-dl
- Questionable usefulness of url list entry text box. Display usage help instead.
- Use desktop notification system in progress-less mode
- Typo in code comments

Version 1.2.1
- Wrong code in DEBUG mode, causing it to be always enabled

Version 1.2
- Added debug mode (use environment variable DEBUG=yes)
Bugfixes:
- In first start could not save configs because did not create config dir
- Did not use urls list from text box when started without arguments

Version 1.1.1
- Added copyright info

Version 1.1
- Added copying information to package;
- Changed layout of config files: now all files are in ~/.config/youtube-dl-applet
- Trying to find youtube-dl, if failed - ask user to select it
- Some comments in code, mostly for markup
- Info in readme, how to specify terminal

Version 1.0: Initial release