Mr. Roboto

Mr. Roboto is a portable media downloader powered by yt-dlp and FFmpeg.

Platform status

• Windows: stable
• Linux: beta

Linux support is new. Please report issues with the command used, full terminal output, and latest log file where possible.

For troubleshooting and platform-specific help, see HELP.md.

Features

• Downloads yt-dlp and FFmpeg automatically on the first run if they are missing.
• Provides an interactive terminal menu for selecting quality profiles.
• Supports resuming interrupted downloads.
• Falls back to browser cookies if a download requires authentication (Edge on Windows; Firefox/Chrome on Linux).
• Uses stream-copy muxing to preserve original codec quality (GPU detection does not perform re-encoding).

Directory Structure

• roboto.bat - Windows launcher.
• roboto.sh - Linux native bash launcher.
• roboto.ps1 - Core PowerShell script (Windows).
• bin/ - Auto-downloaded yt-dlp and FFmpeg binaries.
• downloads/ - Default save location for downloaded media.
• logs/ - Session log files.
• state/ - Resume data for interrupted downloads.
• cache/ - Temporary files.

Quick Start (Windows)

The simplest way to use Mr. Roboto on Windows is via the batch launcher:

1. Double-click roboto.bat.
2. Follow the interactive menu prompts.

(Note: Always use roboto.bat for interactive use, as it automatically handles the PowerShell execution policy for the session).

Quick Start (Linux)

Run the native bash script from your terminal:

chmod +x roboto.sh
./roboto.sh

Prerequisites: bash, curl or wget, and tar (pre-installed on most distributions).

PowerShell Usage (Direct Mode - Windows)

You can run Mr. Roboto directly from PowerShell for single-command execution:

.\roboto.ps1 -Url "https://youtube.com/watch?v=..." -Profile high

Note: Direct mode is not fully headless and may still prompt the user to confirm the save location.