ROSI is an Electron GUI for yt-dlp

- Rosi includes the official YT-DLP binary which on its own uses the [unlicense] license, however there are bundled third party packages. Read THIRD‑PARTY‑NOTICES for more.
- Please make sure to also read the license for the source of this project (excluding third part binaries and packages).
ROSI requires ffmpeg to be installed in your system and available in its PATH. Learn how to install ffmpeg: https://help.rosie.run/installing-ffmpeg
- MacOS:
brew install ffmpeg
- Windows:
winget install ffmpeg
- Linux:
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- Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt install ffmpeg
- Fedora:
sudo dnf install ffmpeg
- Arch:
sudo pacman -S ffmpeg
- Debian/Ubuntu:
ℹ️ The Microsoft Store version of ROSI is in a seperate repo. The MS store version contains minor changes to work with the MS Store.
Download ROSI source code from source (main)
- Download zip of release source code (non-release source code are not recommended as they may contain issues not yet fixed for a release).
- Unzip the folder folder, place it in a good location on your computer.
- Install NodeJS and NPM (Required to build ROSI).
- Open a terminal window within the project's folder and type
npm i --save-dev electron
to download the required electron packages. (May also need to runnpm i
on its own if other required packages were not installed). - Run
npm run build
ornpm run build -- --[extra args]
to build ROSI for your Host OS.
If there is an issue with the program, feel free to create a Github Issue!
For other issues/general contact, please go to https://help.rosie.run/contact.