Nah, just use yt-dlp. Harder to use, but much less sketchy, and no limitations. It's got half a billion settings but it's not hard to look up the exact commands you want, and it supports premade configurations so you only have to actually set it up one time.
In Windows if you put ffmpeg.exe in the same folder it'll merge the best video and audio together so you can get any size for any video. Linux already has ffmpeg.
They don't distribute ffmpeg.exe with yt-dlp because of patents I guess.
Also get phantomjs.exe to bypass youtube download rate limit. It's kind of annoying to get these extra programs but you only have to do it once. Instructions are in the yt-dlp guide.
It also handles a lot of other streaming video besides youtube, too. So far every video URL that I have fed it has worked. It can even take a youtube playlist page for an input and it will download every video in that list. Can set this up with other options that remember what has previously been downloaded to automatically archive entire channels.
Biggest issue I run into is with twitter videos; it tries to name the output file with the full text of the tweet, which often is too long for the filesystem. Have to use the -o option and specify the output file name. Oh no! Woe is me!
Nah, just use yt-dlp. Harder to use, but much less sketchy, and no limitations. It's got half a billion settings but it's not hard to look up the exact commands you want, and it supports premade configurations so you only have to actually set it up one time.
Can you download 1080 versions?
You can get any version YT has uploaded. If you just pop in a video without specifying, it'll get the best version it can find.
In Windows if you put ffmpeg.exe in the same folder it'll merge the best video and audio together so you can get any size for any video. Linux already has ffmpeg.
They don't distribute ffmpeg.exe with yt-dlp because of patents I guess.
Also get phantomjs.exe to bypass youtube download rate limit. It's kind of annoying to get these extra programs but you only have to do it once. Instructions are in the yt-dlp guide.
By default it grabs the best quality version of any video and it bypasses signing in for age gated videos too.
It also handles a lot of other streaming video besides youtube, too. So far every video URL that I have fed it has worked. It can even take a youtube playlist page for an input and it will download every video in that list. Can set this up with other options that remember what has previously been downloaded to automatically archive entire channels.
Biggest issue I run into is with twitter videos; it tries to name the output file with the full text of the tweet, which often is too long for the filesystem. Have to use the -o option and specify the output file name. Oh no! Woe is me!
Reddit did a purge of piracy related subs and fora couple of years ago. They were actually useful.
Personally, I don't use a specialized YouTube downloader, I use jDownloader, which can download almost anything.
And for my phone I use NewPipe.
What version of jDownloader? Any adware problems?
It's just called jDownloader 2, and I haven't had any problems with adware or anything.
I run YouTube dl in a docker
In a docker?
Yeah. Docker is sorta a localised virtual os for that kind of stuff. ts free and you can run all sorts of programs on it.
Its like a program or app but it is in its own virtual machine that can't interact with any other parts of the computer running it?
Yeah the ones I've used are like a VM for a specific app.
You mean a sandbox?
Give us the tutorial. ;)
Well, you can check this out. It covers how to install docker on linux/windows/etc
https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
then this was the app I was suggesting
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
and here it is in docker form
https://github.com/mikenye/docker-youtube-dl
Once you get several containers going, I suggest using portainer
https://docs.portainer.io/start/install-ce/server/docker/linux
In most use cases "docker" translates to "unnecessary nerd shit".
Looks like Youtube-dl has been shut down by a German court? There is a source available version of ClipGrab (which uses yt-dl) here:
https://github.com/FreedomBen/clipgrab
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
this is the one I used
Like an MP4 converter? Those work