If you are into docker use tubearchivist as it lets you host the videos as well.
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The fundamental issue is that he's looking for someone to provide a free service instead of for someone to provide free software.
The latter happens so much more often because it doesn't create ongoing costs for the developer.
What's the best free software?
Yt-dlp
I haven't tried enough of the options to tell you that.
Personally I use Smooth Video Project anyway, so it's conveniet to also use their SVPtube tool. It just wraps youtube-dl and provides a little GUI for it.
There are a bunch of other GUIs for youtube-dl too
jdownloader includes yt-dlp and is generally good if you want to download things that you might or might not be supposed to download
This was legit me untill I learnt about yt-dlp. I remember I used some random ass website for downloading yt vids, since I didn't have mobile data back then, and I wanted to listen to some tunes while I was going to school. The site would completely mess up file names every single time. Yt-dlp is the reason that pushed me to use cli apps more.
Yt-dlp my beloved
Yeah yt-dlp is an amazing software, unfortunately it no longer works for nsfw without cookies.
On firefox: shift + right click -> save video as
Some say there’s an allow right click extension needed to bring it back for YouTube
Alternatively yt-dlp
The save as option is greyed out for me. I've even inspected the element, removed a class="nodownload", but no dice
Same thing when I use to want to download photos from instagram for... uh... personal research.
[email protected] has a list ;)
Also, I'm just gonna leave this here: https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui
Thats what I use now. Got it through scoop.sh.
If anyone looking for Android app. It's flkay for sites other than youtube, but do give it a try
I checked soundcloud is working.
If on Android, use Seal, a FOSS app that uses yt-dlp and allows you to download the video in a shit ton of format and stuff. Apparently can even embed subtitles and metadata into the files, although I never do that.
I really like Seal. Clean UI, FOSS, transparent about the fact that it's "just" a yt-dlp frontend
EDM mixes, downloaded as audio only, split by YouTube chapters, thumbnail embedded as cover and the single parts named by the chapter names, 5/5. I usually do an extra step where I embed fideo name and file name splits as Album, Artist and Track and then they're good to go into my Jellyfin instance.
The screenshot is an old version of MacOS. Either install yt-dlp (at the command line) or, and this is better by far, get the Downie app. I've been downloading videos all morning.
yes yt-dlp,
no to random app that’s probably just a wrapper for yt-dlp with spyware and ads bundled in
There are no ads and not everyone can utilize the command line (I actually taught someone that they could double-click to do something super basic that you'd think everyone knows by now just last week). The developer (Charlie Monroe) makes quality software and I gladly paid for a license. Don't shit on things you haven't investigated.
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i can’t wait to download that!
I did legitimatly use a tool named that when I was like 12.
i feel bad for the younger generations that grew up with locked down apps….
when i was 8, my first computer didn’t have pictures on it… my dad was a programmer so we got a new computer every year… my next one had graphics… the next one had speakers….
the first program i hacked was a dos menu program i locked myself out of (at 8 or so)….
for me, apps that magically do stuff in the background are painful….
i use a terminal emulator to run yt-dlp directly on my phone….
I love termux.
yt-dlp
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