Its handy to download youtube videos to watch or listen offline when communiting.
I used this site which does work: www.yt1s.com
However, its started giving lots of popups, ads. Need to click and close 10s of popups.
Just wondering if anyone is aware of cleaner website that make it simple to download?
+1 for stacher
Is it available for iPhone? Can't find on App Store
Not sure, I use it on my windows PC
Whichever one pops up on Google. You have to try a few before you get a good one. I'd say Google deliberately puts the duds high on the results.
i have a button that says "download" on all videos
once the plus membership ends they no longer play?
i dunno never downloaded one
Except it's not actually " downloading it "
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That does nothing but adds it to you local storage if no mobile/tablet or cache on desktop. It doesn't give you a .mp4 video file to use in other locations. That technically goes against the ToS of Youtube.
Jdownloader 2, I dont know what happened to the first version but this one works great.
Also, this gives you the choice of which vid quality stream to download. Can also download audio only in various qualities.
I just went on that site and don't see a single ad. I presume you're using Chrome or something? Download Firefox with uBlock Origin
That's for suggestion. . Did you try to download a video? That's when all ad pop ups
Yep, no issues
Ok thanks. I'll switch to mozilla
@bin555: Yeah I've got uBlock Origin on Brave and never get ads on YouTube etc. Brilliant extension.
It's not a website, but the best solution is yl-dlp. Only if you are comfortable copy and pasting things into a command prompt.
IIRC, you can provide yt-dlp with a text file of urls and let it rip.
I have a simple script that basically just loops back on itself so you can paste a URL, it downloads… repeat until done. Beats having to remember and/or type the command line.
@echo off
set /p id="Enter URL:"
yt-dlp.exe %id% >> log.txt
YouTubeDL-Video-dlp.bat
Also a slight variation if you just want audio.
@echo off
set /p id="Enter URL:"
yt-dlp.exe -x —audio-format mp3 %id% >> log.txt
YouTubeDL-Audio-dlp.bat
Even another stupid script to update it:
yt-dlp.exe —update
pause
There are GUI implementations on top of it for those who don't want to deal with command line stuff
yt-dl
Macytdl
Seal app on Android. Can download YT, FB, Insta videos, basically anything with a direct link.
I think avast safe browser has a youtube downloader built-in
YouTube
https://pipepipe.dev/ it's a Youtube front-end and it has the ability to download videos in several formats and/or just the audio if you don't need video.
Download while you still can before Google ends the ability to sideload from unverified devs.
How to you use this?
You download the .APK package, and install it on your Android phone.
Interesting, how different is it from newpipe?
Thanks. Second recommendation on this tool.
It works on youtube, vimeo, reddit, etc. Very handy.
This is the way
I love that DLP is an acronym for Data Loss Prevention. Ho Ho Ho
If you hate going commando and prefer a GUI, there is the very basic yt-dlp-gui.
Does anyone have a recommended iPhone application?
I use app called "Documents"
I've used yt-dlp in Termux on my Android phone quite a few times, I am curious for an iPhone alternative.
A coworker runs a Linux VM in UTM on his iPhone, but it's pretty slow.
Did a little googling (and a little perplexing). iSH and a-Shell are available on iOS and are similar to Termux. You can also run yt-dlp in them. The downloaded files apparently then appear in that application's files, and video players can pick them up from there - I have no idea how files work nowadays on iPhones.
SW-DLT shortcut which is a frontend for running yt-dlp on a-Shell Mini
There's also TubeTweaks et al if you want to get into AltStore
JDownloader 2
No idea why one would use a website.
Have a few I go through
https://yt.savetube.me/1kejjj1 (lots of ads but it works just keep closing the extra pop ups)
https://ytmp4.is/en1/ (does both MP3 and MP4)
https://ytmp3.cx/ (does both MP3 and MP4)
https://www.save-free.com/video-downloader/ (for Instagram videos)
Grayjay App? Runs on Windows, Linux, macOS and Android. Saw it recommended in previous YouTube related threads.
https://cnvmp3.com/v33
URL doesn't look like a video downloader and I don't think it does 4k but it works well.
yt-dlp is the only answer, it works well, reliable, and when Youtube changes things, yt-dlp updates pretty quick to fix it.
I edited my Windows System Variables so that I can use it in any explorer window when I want to use it.
Yes. THis worked well.
Glad to hear it, I've never found anything that's worked as well or better.
Just get youtube premium via india if you have an iphone (Probably can create apple id on computer without iphone?)
I am paying like $5 a month for 5 people. Totally worth it.
If you want to download a YouTube video quickly, just remove https://www. from the link and put SS instead.
So to use a sample (1st ever YouTube video) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw&ab_channel=jawed
Becomes_
ssyoutube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw&ab_channel=jawed
Then just click download.
pwnyoutube.com works too. Though the options has gone downhill, you just gotta remember which of them reliably works.
Newpipe.
An Android app thats not available on playstore.
This.
This x2
I use Pinchflat to automatically download videos from channels I’ve subscribed to and also my playlists. Everything automatically gets imported into Jellyfin and I get everything neatly organised with images and metadata. With that said, if you’re not familiar with Docker, it’s somewhat complicated to get started with.
Any app that uses yt-dlp will work well.
android app, TubeMate
Revanced with ad/sponsor block and newpipe for downloads
I have YouTube Premium, and I download videos in the mobile app and watch them without the internet.
I hate those sites that won’t let you in if they detect an adblocker, yet trying to browse the site without an adblocker is impossible due to redirects. Https://appnee.com
Internet Download Manager will catch the links if you have it installed.
early 2004 vibes…
Most of the listed programs work just fine, they all do almost the exact same thing.
One thing none of them currently have the capacity to do though is download a video tagged as "adult" (which just means it has swearing in it or video of people fighting / news images of "violence") without you having an active age-verified Youtube account. In order to have an age-verified account, you have to create an account, then access it's settings and hand over photos of a valid drivers licence or passport with an active mobile number & then have that verified by Youtube.
As of the start of this week, almost any video or stream/podcast worth watching will be tagged as adult content, to avoid being struck by Youtube's AI rule enforcement technology. So the download programs have become almost useless now.
stacher
It's an app though