You-Tube Video downloader

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Apparently, youtube is intent on not allowing people to download videos. I've tried a couple, but they don't seem to work at all now, this may be because of all these restrictions the big companies put on you ( like dropbox does not work on "free" wifi). I have Firefox, so need to grab some pinball related videos to study off-line.

Any one have suggestions on what they use that works, so I can start grabbing a couple videos?
 
I was using something else up until a couple of years ago when a lot of Firefox plugins stopped working, found a replacement called Video DownloadHelper:


Just tested it again and it works, lots of options.
 
I sent a pm, to shiva, I also wrote in chat, but maybe you don't see it?
 
@shiva - I use the "4K Video Downloader" desktop application, and have not had any issues to date; although everything is undoubtedly subject to change.
 
Thanks guys. Did find something that works, so happy little shiva...
 
So, what’s up with this YouTube video to mp3 conversion gig? Well, as I’ve said, there are any number of reasons why it’s a good idea to save a local copy of your favorite song: Internet connection going down the drain, tinfoil hat notions, building a time capsule.
i provide you free and fast service youtube mp3 to access it go to https://www.mp3from.com/en
 
I bought 4k video downloader for 39$

I download 4k...playlist...anything.. your welcome :)
 
I do think there is also online free tool that you simply put the url of the video. It maybe help you in your FP creations
 
An alternative (and a bit overkill) is to use jDownloader2. Multi-platform, free and constantly updated.
You can set it to capture the links from the clipboard and it does a fine job at it, and it can manage the type of video you download from Youtube: resolution, video codec, audio codec, bitrate, batch process...
 
I tried this one found it like you said overkill so went back to YT1s.
 
Just used OBS. In fact will be doing a JG video tonight, apparently I'm a game of the week. Should be fun. :)
 
"Easy YouTube Video Downloader Express" is what I use in Firefox through Linux. Works fine for me - I've downloaded HUGE videos with no issues. Been using it now for over a year.
 
🆘 Skill Share - YouTube Video Downloading / Chopping...

I made this guide the other week. Sometimes I need to download a small clip of a long video, so instead of downloading the full video you can give a timestamp to download whatever part you like.

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- Requires a PC (Win, Linux, Mac)
- Download a YT-DLP release for your Operating System (Releases (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases))
- Download FFMPEG (Required to crop without downloading a whole video and for conversions) (Releases (https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases))
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This guide will be for Windows.
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SETUP - NO INSTALL
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- Put the FFMPEG and YT-DLP files somewhere. "C:\Temp" is good.
- Add this path to your environment to access from command line
- See image how to add to paths. This will allow you to run the files from cmd window.
- You can test this in a cmd window by running "ffmpeg" or "yt-dlp" from cmd line.

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BASIC EXAMPLE - DOWNLOAD VIDEO
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- Go to your Videos folder and do "ALT+D" then type "cmd" and enter
- This will open a cmd prompt for this video directory

This will download the video, a 10 second clip and convert to MP4
Code:
yt-dlp --recode mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vQ8If7f374

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MORE EXAMPLES
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Download but also resize to lowest quality. 144p (Height)
Code:
yt-dlp -S "res:144" --recode mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vQ8If7f374

Download 25 seconds starting from 25 seconds, resize to 360p
Code:
yt-dlp -S "res:360" --recode mp4  --external-downloader ffmpeg --external-downloader-args "ffmpeg_i:-ss 00:00:25.00 -to 00:00:50.00" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTVheyDY4s

Download as MP3
Code:
yt-dlp -x  --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTVheyDY4s

Download playlist as MP3
Code:
yt-dlp -x  --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9OtwvCRJUxoGFbzyO7caGKLPBNkfabA2

This also applies to Rumble, Vimeo and any other online video, streams.
 
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Meh & eh, @HorsePin--

As long as YT is going to be around, now and in to the future, I predict (haha, remember Criswell?) that there will *always* be online services offered to download the media, parsing it across a variety of formats & qualifiers in to downloadable media one can save locally. For example:


Point is, dude-- nobody really needs to download special software or introduce unwanted variables upon same. That said: turn on your ad-blockers, like you do with all other sites.
 
Meh & eh, @HorsePin--

As long as YT is going to be around, now and in to the future, I predict (haha, remember Criswell?) that there will *always* be online services offered to download the media, parsing it across a variety of formats & qualifiers in to downloadable media one can save locally. For example:


Point is, dude-- nobody really needs to download special software or introduce unwanted variables upon same. That said: turn on your ad-blockers, like you do with all other sites.

Behind the scenes most of those sites and apps will be using YT-DL or YT-DLP and FFMPEG. It's actually quicker and easier on the command line anyway and it's not just Youtube, any stream online should work.
 
Behind the scenes most of those sites and apps will be using YT-DL or YT-DLP and FFMPEG. It's actually quicker and easier on the command line anyway and it's not just Youtube, any stream online should work.
For sure that's true IME.
Just look at the page-scripts & cross-directs for these services, and... yeah.
Judas Priest.

But HorsePin-- isn't there a better alt than installing an EXE? (because... you know?)
 
For sure that's true IME.
Just look at the page-scripts & cross-directs for these services, and... yeah.
Judas Priest.

But HorsePin-- isn't there a better alt than installing an EXE? (because... you know?)

Both of those applications, executables are open sourced and the releases are on Github, they are heavily used by a lot of people and services like the one you have just shown.

You don't have to install anything, it's download and extract. You don't have to add as a harmless environment variable either, that's just to make it easier so you can run from anywhere. I can be on a different drive and fire up a cmd window with "Alt+D" in a directory and just run it from there.

If you just put the apps in one folder then you can run them there but you have to go to that directory to run then and you would have to set output path for video, otherwise you'll be manually moving files around, that's if you are organized of course. Most people probably just use the windows videos folder.

It's easier when you can fire up a command line from any directory and download to that directory you're in.

I have had the commands in windows sticky notes for a long time and that's all I do when I need to download something.

I mainly use it for clips. Let's say if I need 1 minute of an hour video then I can chop it and download in one command. Otherwise what would you do?

- Download full length video using app or from youtube itself
- Run FFMPEG to chop it or load it into video software and take a clip

You see that can get very long winded, this is just single command.
 
It has been my experience that you might find a site that works for awhile and then it stops working. You just have to keep finding new sites as time goes on.
 
While on topic , do you know a good online converter that automatically adds thumbnail image to the file and can choose the bitrate (eg. 64 kbps for lectures , 320 kbps for music) ?
 
While on topic , do you know a good online converter that automatically adds thumbnail image to the file and can choose the bitrate (eg. 64 kbps for lectures , 320 kbps for music) ?




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If you use --audio-quality 0 then that grabs the best, which was 256 in this case. --audio-quality 9 was 77kbps/

Code:
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTVheyDY4s

Code:
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTVheyDY4s

Write thumbnail to audio file:

Code:
yt-dlp -x --embed-thumbnail --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTVheyDY4s

You can also include the metadata, artist, album

Code:
yt-dlp -x --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTVheyDY4s

You can an output format, for music then usually, artist - title. Otherwise it puts the youtube id on the filename.

Code:
-o "%(artist)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"
 
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@HorsePin,
Thanks a bunch, matey.

I haven't looked in to this stuff closely for years, but it's always great to have options and more control. Indeed, some years back @mrschultz posted an all-in-on software suite popular with the science staff at Widener U, but I forget what it was called at the moment.

I used to use that suite on my old rig, but somehow forgot about it over the years.
But now, I wouldn't be surprised if the one you mentioned wasn't integrated in there.

Hmm..
 
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