Same thing when I use to want to download photos from instagram for… uh… personal research.
The screenshot is an old version of MacOS. Either install yt-dlp (at the command line) or, and this is better by far, get the Downie app. I’ve been downloading videos all morning.
yes yt-dlp,
no to random app that’s probably just a wrapper for yt-dlp with spyware and ads bundled inOn a mac, this works too: https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui
There are no ads and not everyone can utilize the command line (I actually taught someone that they could double-click to do something super basic that you’d think everyone knows by now just last week). The developer (Charlie Monroe) makes quality software and I gladly paid for a license. Don’t shit on things you haven’t investigated.
Minitool ™ Youtube © Downloadtooler®
i can’t wait to download that!
I did legitimatly use a tool named that when I was like 12.
i feel bad for the younger generations that grew up with locked down apps….
when i was 8, my first computer didn’t have pictures on it… my dad was a programmer so we got a new computer every year… my next one had graphics… the next one had speakers….
the first program i hacked was a dos menu program i locked myself out of (at 8 or so)….
for me, apps that magically do stuff in the background are painful….
i use a terminal emulator to run yt-dlp directly on my phone….I love termux.
If you’re technically inclined, you can selfhost metube for your friends/family
This is a really nice front end, thanks.for the recommendation.
Is that just a yt-dlp front end? Was hoping it would also do the streaming which is what I currently have been thinking of setting up. Probably yt-dlp to download all latest videos and then stream that over UPNP so any device with VLC can watch over the LAN.
That’s what I do! Just save everything to my media server, better that way.
Actually one of the steps is always offering downlaoder EXE to get the fucking video…
VLC still works right?
Yeah, last time I checked anyway. I think it’s been about a year since I last used it for that though.
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Grayjay works too, and they have a desktop client now (at least for Linux, and probably windows).
I was surprised at how well it works but anything command line is not for normies
If you are on an android phone you should check the F-Droid pages for Seal. No commandline, a nice GUI, works great.
+1 for Seal, Newpipe and Tubular both work fine too
Anyone who’s done “/gamemode creative” is smart enough to figure out “yt-dlp <url>”. Seriously people need to stop acting like typing the most basic commands that you can find tutorials about is some kinda level 9 magic
It’s not that peoplecan’t figure it out, it’s that they won’t. As soon as you mention the terminal they stop listening or thinking
/gamemode creativedoesn’t have that problem because it’s not a terminal, it’s a chat windowI think saying “anything command line isn’t for normies” would only worsen the problem
I think you’ve defined the problem rather well there…
It’s not that Normies couldn’t use it, it’s that Normies won’t use it.
Which generally helps it fly under the radar so us nerds can have nice things for longer.
I’m not for gate keeping, but I kinda like having tricky things if it means they don’t get ruined/stopped as fast.
Normies don’t deserve joy.
There’s GUIs for it though. Obviously not for everyone, but I made my own.
That it can download virtually from any site is pretty useful, assuming you know what to give it.
Large language models from two years ago can write you an executable script that displays a window to provide an url.
My “subscriptions” are downloaded automatically on a schedule and imported in jellyfin. I never need to interact with it myself.
Thats why I run it in docker with a web ui (On my server behind a reverse proxy, so I could get HTTPS working)
Shut up, im not a nerd
Metube?
Exactly
Nah I’m sorry. There is a point where it’s unreasonable to expect someone to learn something, but that isn’t it.
Using yt-dlp is extremely straightforward.
Being ignorant and proud of it is a horrid personality trait. The average person knows how to drive a car, how to call others using their phone and how to use an ATM.
Typing 7 characters and copy-pasting a link is well within their abilities.
simply downloading a video? sure, but literally anything else is insanely complicated for an average person.
If they want the music from a video they would have to look through all of https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp and probably still wouldn’t find what they’re looking forIs searching in duckduckgo ‘insanely complicated’?
I agree with the sentiment but you are going way too hard on it. Chill.
The average person learns how to drive a car, which is akin to operating it. The average person does not know how to muck about in the engine of their car, and should not, because if they do the wrong thing they could break it. For that matter, I wouldn’t even recommend someone OPERATES the car without training.
The terminal is considered for advanced users for the same reason. Learning to copy/paste into the terminal without understanding how to use it could mean I say "oh yeah the fix for that issue is doing
rm -rf / --no-preserve-root.
You can use the OpenWith extensions to add it as a right click option.
I have this setup for my non-technical family members, so they just right click on the page choose open with -> ytdlp and it saves it to their downloads folder.
You can set up different options for example video or audio only.
- In Firefox install: https://webextension.org/listing/external-application-button.html
- In the Extension options, add an application
- Name it something like “Open in YT-DLP: mp4”
- Set the exe name to the path of a local copy of yt-dlp
- Set the arguments to be
-S res,ext:mp4:m4a --recode mp4 [HREF] - Under the Placement options -> Context Menu -> select “All Contexts”
You should now be able to right click on a YouTube page and choose “External Application launcher -> Open in YT-DLP: mp4”
If you want audio only, add another application in the extension settings and use the arguments
-f ba[ext=m4a] [HREF]for m4a files.
You can add it as a right-click option to Firefox:
- Install: https://webextension.org/listing/external-application-button.html
- In the Extension options, add an application
- Name it something like “Open in YT-DLP: mp4”
- Set the exe name to the path of a local copy of yt-dlp
- Set the arguments to be -S res,ext:mp4:m4a --recode mp4 [HREF]
- Under the Placement options -> Context Menu -> select “All Contexts”
You should now be able to right click on a YouTube page and choose “External Application launcher -> Open in YT-DLP: mp4”
If you want audio only, add another application in the extension settings and use the arguments -f ba[ext=m4a] [HREF] for m4a files.
I love you
Do you type that in the windows finder bar?
Its a package, so it gets delivered in the mail
Youtube seems to be blocking that for me
Might need an update. Just fixed mine by grabbing the latest release from 2 weeks ago.
It shouldn’t. When I first set it up the commands I was entering were creating an unreadable file. Double check the format you’re outputting too and dont listen to the people in this thread saying its easy. Its pretty complex.
I just tried it again and the problem seems to have fixed itself
If you are into docker use tubearchivist as it lets you host the videos as well.
[email protected] has a list ;)
Also, I’m just gonna leave this here: https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui
Thats what I use now. Got it through scoop.sh.
yt-dlp
If on Android, use Seal, a FOSS app that uses yt-dlp and allows you to download the video in a shit ton of format and stuff. Apparently can even embed subtitles and metadata into the files, although I never do that.
EDM mixes, downloaded as audio only, split by YouTube chapters, thumbnail embedded as cover and the single parts named by the chapter names, 5/5. I usually do an extra step where I embed fideo name and file name splits as Album, Artist and Track and then they’re good to go into my Jellyfin instance.
I really like Seal. Clean UI, FOSS, transparent about the fact that it’s “just” a yt-dlp frontend
I haven’t had to do this in awhile so I can’t recommend the best downloader for this job… But I will say that this is the sort of thing where you absolutely need to have a good adblocker
yt-dlp. Works right from the command line, no sketchy sites, on linux you can probably install it from your package manager
Well damn, guess I’m still windows-brained, never thought that there’d be a package for that!
This was legit me untill I learnt about yt-dlp. I remember I used some random ass website for downloading yt vids, since I didn’t have mobile data back then, and I wanted to listen to some tunes while I was going to school. The site would completely mess up file names every single time. Yt-dlp is the reason that pushed me to use cli apps more.
Yt-dlp my beloved
Yeah yt-dlp is an amazing software, unfortunately it no longer works for nsfw without cookies.
