Pro tip to teach people to fish instead of giving them a fish:
Whenever you’re looking for a new software tool to do something, especially something “sketchy” like this, add something like “GPL” or “open source” to the end of your search string. It might not be quite enough to get the official site of the best tool all the way to the first search result, but it cuts way, way down on the scam sites.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
yt-dlp
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
I was surprised at how well it works but anything command line is not for normies
Saithe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Anyone who’s done “/gamemode creative” is smart enough to figure out “yt-dlp <url>”. Seriously people need to stop acting like typing the most basic commands that you can find tutorials about is some kinda level 9 magic
Honeybee@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Thats why I run it in docker with a web ui
Shut up, im not a nerd
stewi1914@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Nah I’m sorry. There is a point where it’s unreasonable to expect someone to learn something, but that isn’t it.
Using yt-dlp is extremely straightforward.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
If you are on an android phone you should check the F-Droid pages for Seal. No commandline, a nice GUI, works great.
stom@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
You can use the OpenWith extensions to add it as a right click option.
I have this setup for my non-technical family members, so they just right click on the page choose open with -> ytdlp and it saves it to their downloads folder.
You can set up different options for example video or audio only.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Normies don’t deserve joy.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
listen bro, just get better. It’s worth it. It’s literally just yt-dlp, followed by whatever specific flags you want, and the video link, in the directory that you want it to download.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Large language models from two years ago can write you a script.
My “subscriptions” are downloaded automatically on a schedule and imported in jellyfin. I never need to interact with it myself.
BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
There’s GUIs for it though. Obviously not for everyone, but I made my own.
That it can download virtually from any site is pretty useful, assuming you know what to give it.
stom@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
You can add it as a right-click option to Firefox:
You should now be able to right click on a YouTube page and choose “External Application launcher -> Open in YT-DLP: mp4”
If you want audio only, add another application in the extension settings and use the arguments -f ba[ext=m4a] [HREF] for m4a files.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I love you
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Do you type that in the windows finder bar?
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Its a package, so it gets delivered in the mail
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Grayjay works too, and they have a desktop client now (at least for Linux, and probably windows).
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
this, gods software, litearlly.
ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Youtube seems to be blocking that for me unfortunately
stom@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Might need an update. Just fixed mine by grabbing the latest release from 2 weeks ago.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It shouldn’t. When I first set it up the commands I was entering were creating an unreadable file. Double check the format you’re outputting too and dont listen to the people in this thread saying its easy. Its pretty complex.