Not sure if you can archive this without losing the video, but I would, if I were you, OP, because I fully expect it might be gone, soon, unfortunately…
Easy to save videos locally using yt-dlp free, open-source software. It's text only, but not hard to use. Following should work on a normal Windows 10.
Open command window and check for updates (after installing, type bold part):
Start Button -> cmd.exe
C:\Users\MyUserName> cd Downloads
C:\Users\MyUserName\Downloads> yt-dlp.exe -U
Copy a website video URL and download in best quality or 720p max (paste URL with ctrl+v or right click):
Open ffmpeg zip file, find "ffmpeg.exe" inside the "bin" folder. Drag or save to Downloads folder, same folder as yt-dlp.exe.
You just need those two programs in the same folder and cd the command window to that folder. The ffmpeg.exe is used to combine different audio/video streams and is needed for many videos and to get the best quality. Some videos will save without it, but it's really worth the trouble of getting it.
The reason it's text only is because there are a million features that can handle anything and making a GUI for all that is more work that actually writing the downloader itself.
I see it all the time people wanting to know how to download videos to save, and these programs are the best by far... it just works, everywhere.
But not super easy to use because it comes from linux so I tried to make a simple guide.
Is it better to just link to the main yt-dlp site and have people figure out how to get it and use from their instructions? It would be great if the admins here or patriots.win could make an official guide for average joe on how to use this software!
It is true that the ffmpeg.exe is built from source by some rando who could put something bad in it, but it's linked from ffmpeg main site. They don't make binaries available directly because it's media codecs and they don't want to get patent sued.
The Tweet is already playing up…
Not sure if you can archive this without losing the video, but I would, if I were you, OP, because I fully expect it might be gone, soon, unfortunately…
already saved. if you googlefu around you can find a place or two to save them for yourself too.
Easy to save videos locally using yt-dlp free, open-source software. It's text only, but not hard to use. Following should work on a normal Windows 10.
Open command window and check for updates (after installing, type bold part):
Copy a website video URL and download in best quality or 720p max (paste URL with ctrl+v or right click):
Installing is a little bit involved as it's designed for linux:
You just need those two programs in the same folder and cd the command window to that folder. The ffmpeg.exe is used to combine different audio/video streams and is needed for many videos and to get the best quality. Some videos will save without it, but it's really worth the trouble of getting it.
The reason it's text only is because there are a million features that can handle anything and making a GUI for all that is more work that actually writing the downloader itself.
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I can not vouch for this software or this procedure. Proceed at your own risk.
Fauxgnaws, you don't seem like an evil person and these aren't immediately obviously illegitimate programs so I'm not removing this as spam.
Does anyone want to vouch for these?
I see it all the time people wanting to know how to download videos to save, and these programs are the best by far... it just works, everywhere.
But not super easy to use because it comes from linux so I tried to make a simple guide.
Is it better to just link to the main yt-dlp site and have people figure out how to get it and use from their instructions? It would be great if the admins here or patriots.win could make an official guide for average joe on how to use this software!
It is true that the ffmpeg.exe is built from source by some rando who could put something bad in it, but it's linked from ffmpeg main site. They don't make binaries available directly because it's media codecs and they don't want to get patent sued.