- Download from Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Dailymotion, Vimeo and 100s of other websites that yt-dlp supports.
- Automatically saves video chapters, thumbnails and subtitles (User configurable).
- Downloads playlists, channels, keyword topic urls on multiple websites.
- Supports directly searching and downloading from youtube.
- Multithreaded downloads using aria2c to fully utilize the available bandwidth (User configurable).
- Batch mode can create jobs, save urls to them and download, resume, edit, delete.
- Extremely light and instantly responding text based ui.
- Easily editable batch script.
- Compatible with Windows 7 SP1/8/8.1/10/11 (32/64-bit).
- Downloads only. Does not convert to other formats. All formats are given by the website.
- Except for audio. Along with untouched M4A and OPUS audio straight from youtube, there is also a 128k CBR MP3 option.
- Everything is designed to help create muscle memory.
Note: Windows Defender will show a one-time warning before you try to start a batch file downloaded from the internet. You need to click More info and click Run Anyway for it to go away.
- Download the latest AYC release from here or here.
- Extract the ayc folder inside to anywhere on your computer (eg: C:\ayc). Do not extract inside Program Files.
- Open AYClient.bat and follow the on screen instructions.
- When you're done there'll be a shortcut created in ayc folder, on the desktop and in start menu. Open it to start using AYC.
If you're on v4.14 or newer, you don't need to do it, everything is set up automatically! :)
If a newer AYC redirected you here, that means it failed to do the setup automatically. Follow the instructions to setup manually.
Warning: Windows 11 may undo these changes randomly without ever asking you. If AYC ever appears broken, redo the instructions from this guide.
- Change where batch scripts open by default.
- Open Windows Terminal App. (Either right click Start and select Terminal or search for Terminal in the start menu).
- If you're on Windows 10 and don't have Windows Terminal you can skip to Step 2.
- Press
Ctrl + ,(comma) to open Settings. - Change your Default terminal application to
Windows Console Hostand click Save. - You can now close this terminal.
- Copy the below magic phrase and paste into AYC. This is to ensure you actually read these instructions. Why?
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- Copy the below magic phrase and paste into AYC. This is to ensure you actually read these instructions. Why?
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Simply paste the url again and pick the same quality again. All partial downloads are kept in a temporary folder which you can resume anytime you want.
You can add these in 'ayc\resources\scripts\custom.bat' for each type of downloads. Instructions are in the file itself.
AYC like yt-dlp supports loading cookies from a cookies.txt file or your browser.
For cookies.txt, all you have to do is place the cookies.txt file inside the ayc folder and start AYC. It'll auto detect it and ask you whether you want to load it or not.
For cookies from your browser, you need to add the following to the appropriate variable in 'ayc\resources\scripts\custom.bat'
--cookies-from-browser chrome
Supported browsers: 'brave', 'chrome', 'chromium', 'edge', 'opera', 'vivaldi', 'firefox', 'safari'.
Cookies.txt is loaded globally for all downloads. If you want to set cookies per site, you can add the cookie option per site in 'ayc\resources\scripts\custom.bat'.
AYC used to be compiled to exe files. These exe files extracted the batch script and then ran it which was easier for the user. But one day antiviruses everywhere started flagging this behaviour.
So AYC since v3.6 is released as straight batch files everyone can open with notepad and read. This requires some additional setup.
Some old v2 releases were lost due to this issue from Sourceforge before I could archive them for future reference. Their source codes were fine. The remaining recovered releases (thanks to videohelp) along with all source files and all the new releases are kept in an updated folder on MEGA. If you want you can download them below.
Be advised since then antivirus softwares have improved to detect that these are indeed harmless but some still falsely flag them. Windows defender sometimes does. It's not consistent.
MEGA Archive Link: https://mega.nz/folder/HgtFmBxQ#5Qd4j73u_O5CZIomc3S3AQ
AYC uses a command mode to dynamically change window size to fit and display all it's content. This works on Windows Console Host, the application which ran batch scripts for 30 years since Windows NT was first released and works on everything upto Windows 11.
Recently Microsoft's been trying to push the newer Windows Terminal to it's users on Windows 10 and 11. But this is not feature complete. One of the features it's missing at the moment is mode or any ability for the script to control window and buffer size.
So on these computers users have to manually change their setttings to allow batch scripts to open in Windows Console Host. But people downloading this from other websites and even from here skipped over the instructions to do that and thought the script was broken.
So AYC now makes all users go through this once when they open it for the first time.
AYC started out on Sourceforge in 2016, it has only been on Github since 2021. Part of the old releases are available on the Sourceforge page and the complete archive is on MEGA and always updated each release. The archive is still missing some early files from v2 era. I couldn't recover them.
AYC can be removed by simply deleting the ayc folder. But do a reset first by going into AYC > Settings > Reset. This is needed to remove desktop, start menu shortcuts.