XtractForge4Windows

A powerful, modern and modular media engine capable of downloading, extracting and processing content through multiple CLI‑based workflows.

Native Windows app (WinUI 3 + .NET 8, single window, Mica). Drop or paste a link — video, audio, gallery, stream, or direct file — and XtractForge routes it to the right tool and downloads it.

Bundled tools (install the ones you use): yt-dlp, lux, gallery-dl, spotDL, FFmpeg, and curl (pre-installed on Windows 10+).

winget install yt-dlp.yt-dlp Gyan.FFmpeg
pip install gallery-dl spotdl
scoop install lux

Build & run

Requires Windows 10 1809+ and Visual Studio 2022 with the WinUI 3 / Windows App SDK workload (or the .NET 8 SDK for CLI builds).

dotnet build                          # build the solution
dotnet test                           # run the xUnit suite (XtractForge.Core — runs on any OS)
dotnet run --project XtractForge     # run the app (Windows only)

The solution is split so all download logic lives in XtractForge.Core (plain .NET 8, no Windows dependencies) — that project and its tests build and run on macOS/Linux too; only the WinUI XtractForge app project requires Windows.

Development

See CLAUDE.md for architecture, scope rules, and contribution conventions, and CONTRIBUTING.md for workflow.