Do you have a fool-proof method?
Test link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMeWsh7H6RI
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I have Internet Download Manager and it has browser integration. But the programmer can be very annoying. It stopped working 100% of the time. And I guess he’s not going to fix it. And I bet he won’t even make the link available so I can grab it with another app.
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I also use yt5s.com. It used to be golden but starting yesterday it’s gives me 403 error sometimes.
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At deturl.com - I tried all the download links to other sites but it seems the site was abandoned. The links are dead and the sites that work - also generated 403 yesterday. I’m about to try right now but I expect 403s again.
yt-dlp (a fork of youtube-dl) is the best option in my opinion, probably IDM just pulls its python package in but then doesn’t get updated until IDM gets updated. There are free/open source GUI front ends for it too, I’m not familiar with them myself.
Sometimes it breaks when Youtube update something, and there is probably a battle over ads/3rd party addons for Youtube that may come to a head next year.
I’ve used it for a decade and a half at this point, based on the earliest stuff in my video archive folder.
yeah yt-dlp is the goat for sure. Does a lot of sites besides youtube too. I use it for any old m3u8 video embed I find too, plus twitch vods, etc etc. Not the most user friendly for those that don’t like CLI but there are GUI frontends
https://cobalt.tools/
yt-dlp
jdownloader2
freetube
some of the invidious sites have downloading but youtube is hitting them hardWas going to say Freetube as well. One of the best open source programs available.
youtube-dl is as fool-proof as it gets. I typically just google around for youtube video download websites, then try about 20 before landing on one that works.
then try about 20
I think that was my problem. I only tried ~8.
I use metube, which is a web based front end for yt-dpl/youtube-dl. It’s useful if you run a Plex server or a host-your-own-music server(like subsonic). I can log in to the front end, paste in a video/playlist link, and it downloads it into a folder that Plex can pick up.
It’s probably overkill unless you self-host a media server, though.
Whenever I need clips now I use a screenrecorder and crop out the free trial logo in a video editor, because I can also get the captions
but I also use yt-dl or similar to the other commenter
Theres also telegram bots that are real clunky but can be useful if youre unable to use a significant amount of download data, I think a lot of them send the video back to you as a message you can download later
I have a concerning amount of stuff backed up on telegram in private chats
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: