Progress and goals

This page is supposed to give a brief overview of how far CoubDownloader has come since its birth as a small Bash script.

These lists are not a complete changelog and only outline the most important changes from a user's perspective.

What's next?

The next version is supposed to be a major release, but there's still lots of work to be done.

• port GUI to GTK
• (Linux) use Flatpak for distribution
• save input sources for repeated usage
• add settings profiles
• progress bar
• proper manual
• allow to repeatedly scrape input sources in a given interval

Changes since Coub's database upgrade (watermark & co)

Coub started to massively overhaul their database and API. Of course those changes aren't documented (why would you document API changes anyway?).

• Only repair video streams that are actually broken
• Remove mobile option (they now come with a watermark and are the exact same as html5 med)
• Add AAC mobile audio as another possible audio version (ranked between low and high quality MP3 audio)
• Add options to prefer AAC or only download AAC audio
• Add shared option (video+audio already combined)
• Download coubs from the hot section
• Download coubs from communities (incl. Featured & Coub of the Day)
• Asynchronous coub processing
• Asynchronous timeline parsing
• Detect stream corruption (incl. old Coub storage method)
• Workspace cleanup (incomplete coubs) after user interrupt
• Colorized terminal output
• Download retries
• URL input without input options
• Autocompletion of incomplete/malformed URLs (to some extent)
• Advanced sorting per input
• Support for sort order related URLs
• Download random coubs
• Option to change the container format for stream remuxing
• Basic GUI frontend
• Read custom defaults from config file

Changes since switching to Coub's API (previously used youtube-dl)

• Download all coubs from a channel
• Download all recoubs from a channel
• Limit number of downloaded coubs
• Wait x seconds between downloads (not supported anymore due to async execution)
• Limit download speed (was only possible in the Bash version)
• Download all coubs with a certain tag
• Check for the existence of a coub before downloading
• Specify max. coub duration (FFmpeg syntax)
• Keep track of already downloaded coubs
• Export parsed coub links (from channels or tags) to a file for later usage
• Different verbosity levels
• Choose download order for channels and tags
• Custom output formatting
• Download all coubs from a search query
• Choose what video/audio quality to download
• Download videos for mobile devices to avoid watermarks (not possible anymore)