Abby front-end for cclive and clive that can be used to download videos from Youtube and similar video hosting services

Abby is a front-end (or a graphical user interface) for cclive and clive that can be used to download videos from Youtube and similar video hosting services. See the above links for a more complete list of supported video websites.

Abby is free software and is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Abby is written in C++.

Repo:

<big><span class="pln">git clone git</span><span class="pun">:</span><span class="com">//repo.or.cz/abby.git</span></big>

Prerequisites:

• cclive 0.5.0+ (recommended) or clive 2.2.5+
• qt 4.4+

Install.

Get source code and compile it:

<big><span class="pln">wget http</span><span class="pun">:</span><span class="com">//abby.googlecode.com/files/abby-$release.tar.bz2</span><span class="pln"><br />tar xjf abby</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">$release</span><span class="pun">.</span><span class="pln">tar</span><span class="pun">.</span><span class="pln">bz2</span><span class="pun">;</span><span class="pln"> cd abby</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">$release<br />qmake</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">qt4 </span><span class="pun">&&</span><span class="pln"> make</span></big>

Screenshots:

Linux/FreeBS.

Options (with cclive):

Options / Website video formats (with cclive):

About box (with cclive):

RSS and Scan features.

Parsed contents of an RSS feed:

Feed manager can be used to save feed links:

Scan can be used to scan URLs for video links:

Preferences.

Preferences: General settings

Preferences: Connection settings

Preferences: Misc. settings

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