Cadmium

Cadmium is a python command line application made to conveniently download youtube videos for without the risk of accidentally installing malware or getting overwhelmed with ads. It's a great all in one tool that has all the features you'll ever need for downloading youtube videos.

Features

• ✔️ Simple to Use
  • Cadmium has a very simple command line user interface with great tutorials and documentation.
• 🛡️ Safe
  • Cadmium's source code as well as it's dependencies are publicly visible and completely open source ensuring full transparency as to how the program functions.
• ✨ High Quality Downloads
  • Cadmium can download super high quality video up to 4320p (8K) resolution.
• 🔄 Automatic File Conversion
  • Cadmium converts downloaded videos into highly supported file formats for you automatically while allowing you to also control what kind of files they are converted to as well.
• ⚙️ Configurable
  • Personalise Cadmium with it's many configuration options to make it work the way you want.

Supported Platforms

Operating System	x86_64	arm64
Windows 10/11	✅	✅
Linux	✅	✅
macOS	✅	🚧

Download instructions for the prebuilt executable (Recommended for most users)

This section will help instruct you through the download process, please note that this is for the prebuilt executable file. If you wish to build or run the source code please follow this tutorial instead.

1. Download the latest version of Cadmium for your system from here.
2. Once downloaded unzip and extract the folder.
3. Open the "Cadmium" folder and run Cadmium.exe file.
4. You're all set! Happy downloading!

Download instructions for running the raw source code or building (For advanced users)

To learn how to build Cadmium from it's source code please look at this tutorial, it covers building Cadmium from source and running the source code manually with the Python interpreter.

Tutorials

• How to use Cadmium
• Understanding the configuration file
• Building Cadmium from scratch

Acknowledgements

Huge thanks to all the open source libraries and projects that helped make Cadmium possible!

• The maintainers of the python programming language. ❤️ (Support the project here)

• The maintainers of the ffmpeg project. ❤️ (Support the project here)

• The maintainers of the node project. ❤️ (Support the project here)

• The maintainers of the pytubefix python package. ❤️ (Support the project here)

• The maintainers of the python-ffmpeg python package. ❤️ (Support the project here)

• The maintainers of the tqdm python package. ❤️ (Support the project here)

• The maintainers of the pick python package. ❤️ (Support the project here)

• The maintainers of the pyinstaller python package. ❤️ (Support the project here)

• Name inspired by the wonderful song Cadmium Colors. ❤️ (Support the artist here)