Ask HN: What do you use to download videos?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39301478

by ravshan • 2 years ago

9 13 2 years ago

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Sometimes I want to download a video, but there is no download option most of the time. How do you download videos?

kuschkufan• 2 years ago

ytp-dl for everything

ravshan• 2 years ago

Is that an executable? Isn't there an extension which can do it? The ones I searched from chrome store don't seem to work.

Am4TIfIsER0ppos• 2 years ago

It can be. It is a python program from here https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

techietim• 2 years ago

The correct spelling is yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

mtmail• 2 years ago

https://deturl.com/ or rather when you type in a URL is will link to another 10 tools https://deturl.com/www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBsypHzF3U

dxs• 2 years ago

Take a look at www.downloadhelper.net

keiferski• 2 years ago

An app called ClipGrab works well enough for me:

https://clipgrab.org

palashkulsh• 2 years ago

Literally Using ffmpeg to download m3u8 videos these days. Whenever they need a header i proxy that url via nginx

navjack27• 2 years ago

Jdownloader

ChildOfChaos• 2 years ago

Downie on Mac

sircastor• 2 years ago

Synology’s download manager - which is an amalgamation of tools, but for video it’s ytp-dl

It works great.

bjourne• 2 years ago

Yt-dlp ftw!

leros• 2 years ago

I pay for YouTube premium and Nebula which both let me download videos. I use it to save videos for when I travel. I also sometimes live off grid with a Starlink and I'll download videos so I can turn Starlink off to save power.