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.
Jdownloader 2 is the most straightforward.
It’s an unholy Java monster
The fundamental issue is that he’s looking for someone to provide a free service instead of for someone to provide free software.
The latter happens so much more often because it doesn’t create ongoing costs for the developer.
What’s the best free software?
Yt-dlp
I haven’t tried enough of the options to tell you that.
Personally I use Smooth Video Project anyway, so it’s conveniet to also use their SVPtube tool. It just wraps youtube-dl and provides a little GUI for it.
There are a bunch of other GUIs for youtube-dl too
VLC still works right?
yt-dlp
jdownloader includes yt-dlp and is generally good if you want to download things that you might or might not be supposed to download
Cobalt.tools
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com has a list ;)
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!
Parabolic is super easy to use and allows you to download either a single video or entire playlist/channel. Also if you download playlists, it makes separate folders for them and embeds all the metadata you may need.
Open-source (GPL-licensed), available for Windows and Linux.
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 inMinitool ™ 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.
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.
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
If you are into docker use tubearchivist as it lets you host the videos as well.
Actually one of the steps is always offering downlaoder EXE to get the fucking video…
