Preferences

Preferences

Downie contains a whole array of options and settings that allow you to customize it to your needs. The Preferences window can be accessed from the menu bar by following Downie > Preferences…. It contains various sections that are described below in greater detail.

General

General preferences allow you to set your preferences about the general behavior of Downie:

Proxy Server

Proxy server is an online service that allows you to browse the Internet using a different IP address. You can set up a proxy server here in order to download videos that are otherwise inaccessible to you in your current geolocation. Note that Downie currently supports only HTTPS and SOCKS 4 and 5 proxy servers and that this setting doesn't currently affect the User Guided Extraction nor the Login Browser.

Note: Changing the proxy settings doesn't affect existing downloads or items that are already in the queue. Each download copies the proxy settings at the very moment that it's created.

History

History settings allow you to set up automatic cleanup of your download history or to automatically clear deleted files. For more information, please see the History help.

Parental Controls

Editing parental controls requires to be unlocked by an administrator using the Lock button. After that you can disable:

Advanced

Advanced preferences are fairly advanced - we recommend not to modify those unless you are certain that this is really what you want.

Postprocessing

Once the download is done, you may want Downie to do several things:

Downie includes various options when it comes to changing the format of downloaded files. You can select from 4 options when it comes to postprocessing. Please see Postprocessing help for more information on these options.

Some files can be downloaded as multi-part - they will consist of several e.g. 6-minute parts. This is already done by the server they are downloaded from. Stitching of these is not an easy task and unfortunately requires Permute to perform the stitching.

Subtitles

Downie can download subtitles for supported sites - if you do not wish for the subtitles to be downloaded automatically, uncheck this option. Downie will by default convert all subtitle formats to the most common .srt format - this is not always desired - in such cases, enable the option to keep original format of the subtitles.

Browser Extensions

See Browser Extensions help.

Supported Sites

You can view sites with explicit support here. Note that this list doesn't by default include sites considered as adult - to include those sites as well, check the All Sites checkbox in bottom-left corner.

Important note: This only lists sites with explicit support. There are thousands and thousands more that will work with Downie either on its own or via User Guided Extraction.

Search Engines

In the main window, there is a Search field from which you can search sites directly and download from them using Downie. Here you can enable and disable various Search Engines.

Updates

Set options on how should Downie handle updates. We recommend that you check for updates automatically and even download them automatically - each update brings many improvements and given the nature of Downie integrating with 3rd party online services, things are bound to get broken over the course of time.