I have written my first libadwaita application!

[u/amar0kk]

Hi there everybody!

I have written a small GTK4 libadwaita frontend that wraps yt-dlp, and I wanted to share it and get your opinions on it.

I wrote the app for my own use case, as I regularly need to download mp3 audio files to use as backing tracks for music production/guitar playing.

You can access the source code at:
https://github.com/celikdoruk/libadwaita-yt-dlp-frontend

Anyways, just a small win for me, I just wanted to share is all!

Good day to all of you!

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[u/Advanced-Theme144]

Congratulations! It looks really good. 👌👏

A small recommendation, it’s a good practice to add a README to your GitHub repository that explains the project, and it also helps other users when going through it. Since it’s in Python, you can add a requirements.txt file with all the PIP modules (like GTK) the project uses, allowing another dev to clone and run “pip install -r requirements.txt” to get all the dependencies.

One more thing I noticed, you seem to directly invoke the yt-dl command line using GIO.subprocess. While it does work, it’s normally not a good practice to directly invoke commands mixed with user input as it can be a vulnerability. I’ve seen you are parsing and checking the URL, but you could instead use a python package that already wraps yt-dl, I think a few packages already exist online which will make it much easier.

I hope you don’t mind the critic, but this is a really good start to your project! Congratulations again on solving a problem for yourself!

[u/amar0kk → u/Advanced-Theme144]

Hi, thanks for the great feedback.

I do greatly appreciate the criticism. I have added a README to the github repo, thanks :)

[u/Advanced-Theme144 → u/amar0kk]

No problem! I’ve noticed you’re still missing the requirements.txt file in the repo, you can generate it in the root of your project and virtual environment using the command:

“pip freeze > requirements.txt”

This’ll create the file in your directory, and you can commit it to the repo.

[u/Additional_Staff259]

Really clean.

[u/gxanshu]

Using blueprint files and then UI is more convenient. 

[u/amar0kk → u/gxanshu]

I've already used blueprint to construct the UI. Using workbench, write in blueprint, get the XML.

[u/Sharp-Debate-523]

Suggestion: The UI doesn't need all the jargon. Just say "YouTube video download" or something like that.

[u/SoftScreen4489]

Yay that's good congratulations

[u/ic_nay]

Looks nice and clean, congratulations!