I wouldn’t need such a tool usually, but when I watch content in my native language, the sites are clearly overused, and the video blocks every 5 seconds. On Android I use LJ Video Downloader, and I’m wondering if there’s something for Windows.
I use XDM. It’s open source, has no ads or other shit, and it will download almost any DRM-free video on a web page.
how do you know the browser extension is safe?
Relevant thread: https://lemmy.today/post/32621021
tl;dr https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hls-stream-detector/ +
yt-dlpDoes yt-dlp work on Windows?
Edit: oh I just saw I’m the third person to say yt-dlp lol
And I will be the 4th.
Ytdlp ftw
https://cobalt.tools/ works for some things that I’ve needed that yt-dlp wasnt able to
It doesnt do playlists tho so its a bit labor intensive—i have to really want the videos and be unable to source them literally anywhere else at the time and it requires you to schlepp thru each single video to download manually with cobalt. Copy paste, copy paste over and over till you get every item
It’s yt-dlp. Don’t mess with any of the front ends, just learn how to type “yt-dlp” and whatever flags you want then paste your url.
any reason why I should not just use Stacher? I used to use yt-dl as a kid but nowadays I like more chill approaches
It works better, stays up to date, has better error reporting, has better documentation, is more trustworthy and isn’t gonna become abandonware in the near future.
It’s probably also faster for you once you get used to it: (if you’re on a webpage with a video you wanna download) ctrl-l, ctrl-c, (open your command prompt, for me it’s win-r -> “cmd” -> enter), yt-dlp ctrl-v.
I can’t think of anything more chill than pasting the url. It’s got incredibly good defaults.
I tried using it but the problem is the video it’s always a generic page. When I use LJ on Android it lets me open the page from a browser and detect the video after I select season and episode on that page
Get the uri for your video somehow. Theres about a million ways just pick the one you like the best.
nowadays i just use the browser devtool, but i used to use IDM for this
You can’t always use the dev tools. Sometimes the sites have JavaScript that detects when you open the dev tools and then lock stuff up more.
RTFMegathread
Link? I went to https://lemmy.today/post/18243468 , but didn’t see anything relevant. (I’m sure there probably is something relevant in there, but it’s a huge area to sift through.)
Thats the idea, go in the rabbit hole
