M3U8 Downloader

Yet another m3u8 downloader built with vue3/vite, element-plus & electron.

Features

• Video/Audio stream selection
• Concurrent download support
• HTTP headers customization support
• HTTP proxy support
• HLS X-MAP support
• HLS AES-128 encryption support
• Automatic Ads removing

Dependencies

• Vite 5+: Node 18+ is required, and CJS Node API is deprecated.
• Electron 28+: It enables ESM support.

Notes

• NODE_ENV is a node environment variable, see here.
• Vite has a similar but different mode concept, see here.
• In development environment:
  • ESM are requested and loaded directly in browsers, see here.
  • Vite dev server transform *.vue/*.css and other files to ESM(in memory) to be hosted, see here.
  • Vite server and client communicate via websocket, a websocket connection can be found in devtools.
• In development environment, esbuild is used for:
  • pre-bundle dependencies to convert them to ESM.
  • transpile typescript to javascript, so that HMR can reflect in the browser.
• In production environment, rollup is used for bundling for its flexibility. see here.
• When using Github Actions, electron-builder auto detects CI environment via GITHUB_ACTIONS environment variable (via is-ci package).