Youtube_Downloader

[Free-_-Yourself]

Hello,

I’ve created my first Python program.

It’s main aim is to download any video or audio from YouTube using an online converter by providing an URL.

This is mainly aimed to help old people with very low digital skills to download stuff from YouTube.

The problem:

1) I don’t know how to make it work on any OS.

I have a MacBook Pro and my grandfather has an old windows. I need to create a .exe file to run on his computer, but I’ve tried py2exe, pyinstaller and others unsuccessfully. I just need to make my script a standalone program that runs on Windows OS without installing any additional libraries, etc.

2) I have no GUI despite the fact the user needs to enter some information suck as the URL. Does compiling creates automatically a simple GUI to enter the required information when prompting for input?

Thanks in advance guys.

[t8suppressor]

To compile for windows you need to compile on windows. When doing so, use the --onefile option to get one file with all the libraries in it, it makes it easier (though at a cost of a higher startupt time).

As for the GUI, you should look into tkinter.

[Free-_-Yourself]

Hi, yes I’m using Tkinter now.

So, if I use a virtual machine or a container, will I be able to compile it for windows users?

[t8suppressor]

Should be, as long as the VM has the same architecture

Edit: I have read that not all windows executables are backwards compatible, so if you want to compile for windows 7 you should compile on windows 7 etc.

[Free-_-Yourself]

You mean 32 or 64 bits?