Best Software For Online Videos Downloading

[mammamia11]

Interestingly, JD used to have this feature, but quietly removed it at some point (presumably because it was out of scope as you mentioned). It still uses ffmpeg in the background to combine video chunks and audio stream into a single file.

ah i didnt know that, i just downloaded and tried J-downloader after DarkSaibot mentioned it and i wanted to see the deferens :)

[DarkSaibot v.1.3.10]

The solution is usually blocking their network access, but that obviously wouldn't be an option here...



Instead of pasting a link in a window and clicking a download button, you type something like this in a terminal and press Enter.

yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDEFGHIJK

worked in the past ,but now it seems like is still working only if i unplug the cable or disable the network

yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDEFGHIJK

common to much work for grandpa,just to download some videos,where alternatives exists without have to know how to code

I speak for my own experience , i made many mp3 rips from youtube to my usb flash using win11, never had problems. second thing, J-downloader is only a download tool, cant be compared to 4k video because the one i use can do much more stuff then downloading.

from where did you get the version ? to be sure i'm not getting an infected one

[mammamia11]

worked in the past ,but now it seems like is still working only if i unplug the cable or disable the network



common to much work for grandpa,just to download some videos,where alternatives exists without have to know how to code



from where did you get the version ? to be sure i'm not getting an infected one

from filecr, they have the latest version, torrent sites have old one from 2022

[DarkSaibot v.1.3.10]

interesting website,thanks

[H265]

I'm trying to download some videos from cbtnuggets using idm and i get this error message. is it possible to bypass this?

[buttnudge]

I'd like to mention that people using yt-dlp should probably also use aria2 along with it. Big sites especially YouTube throttle the shit out of your download speed. I actually have a nifty bash script for this. I'll post it when I get back from work. Meanwhile you can just prompt any LLM-type chat online to give you a command that uses yt-dlp and aria2.

[anon]

Since there's so much appreciation for terminal stuff here, I'll cross-post this.

If you add raw=1 to the query string, you get redirected straight to the video stream... there's also a local parameter which can be true or false (not 1 or 0, confusingly) to proxy the video through Invidious or not, and quality which can be one of dash, hd720 or medium.

Can also be used from a terminal.

wget "https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=q6o49pbJaDo&quality=medium&local=false&raw=1"

Adding &listen=1 downloads the audio track instead. Neither preserves the original name...

Works in PowerShell with Invoke-WebRequest, so you don't need to install anything irrespective of your platform, which makes it at least situationally useful. Changing the "local" parameter to true will let you download VEVO stuff and possibly avoid geoblocking (depending on where the Invidious instance is hosted).

[buttnudge]

As promised here is the bash script.

#! /usr/bin/env bash
# depends on: aria2, yt-dlp

a2() {
	BASE_YTDL=(
		"--geo-bypass"
		"--no-cache-dir"
		"--no-call-home"
		"--restrict-filenames"
	)
	BASE_AR2C="\
                --no-netrc=true \
                --log-level=error \
                --summary-interval=0 \
                --auto-save-interval=0 \
                --file-allocation=falloc \
                --console-log-level=error \
                --split=16 \
                --min-split-size=1M \
                --http-no-cache=true \
                --max-connection-per-server=16 \
                --max-overall-download-limit=6M \
                "
	TYPE="$1"
	shift
	case $TYPE in
	aud)
		mkdir -p "${HOME}/Music"
		(cd "${HOME}/Music" && exec yt-dlp "${BASE_YTDL[@]}" \
			--external-downloader aria2c \
			--external-downloader-args aria2c:"$(echo -e "$BASE_AR2C")" \
			-o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' \
			-f 'bestaudio/best' \
			--no-playlist \
			"$@")
		;;
	alb)
		mkdir -p "${HOME}/Music"
		(cd "${HOME}/Music" && exec yt-dlp "${BASE_YTDL[@]}" \
			--external-downloader aria2c \
			--external-downloader-args aria2c:"$(echo -e "$BASE_AR2C")" \
			-o '%(playlist_title)s/%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s' \
			-f 'bestaudio/best' \
			--yes-playlist \
			"$@")
		;;
	vid)
		local QUA='bestvideo[height<=1440]+bestaudio/best[height<=1440]/best'
		mkdir -p "${HOME}/Movies"
		(
			cd "${HOME}/Movies" && exec yt-dlp "${BASE_YTDL[@]}" \
				--external-downloader aria2c \
				--external-downloader-args aria2c:"$(echo -e "$BASE_AR2C")" \
				--sub-langs "en.*" \
				--write-subs \
				--no-playlist \
				-o "%(upload_date)s_%(title)s-[%(id)s].%(ext)s" \
				-f "$QUA" \
				"$@"
		)
		;;
	*)
		echo "Options: aud, alb, vid"
		return
		;;
	esac
}
opt="$1"
shift
for link in "$@"; do
	a2 "$opt" "$link"
done

I have it in PATH and use it most of the time to download albums off youtube that are playable as playlists on normal youtube. For videos be sure to change "1440" and yt-dlp options to what you actually want on your machine.
Ideally this should be converted to python since it doesn't really need bash and this way it would also work on Windows but my python experience is just some scripts I needed to do for work and never got around to it.