• @grue
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    5 hours ago

    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 raise 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.

    Or perhaps even better yet, go straight to checking AlternativeTo.net.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

      • stewi
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        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.

        Being ignorant and proud of it is a horrid personality trait. The average person knows how to drive a car, how to call others using their phone and how to use an ATM.

        Typing 7 characters and copy-pasting a link is well within their abilities.

      • @[email protected]
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        196 hours 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

        • @essell
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          63 hours ago

          I think you’ve defined the problem rather well there…

          It’s not that Normies couldn’t use it, it’s that Normies won’t use it.

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        8 hours ago

        Thats why I run it in docker with a web ui (On my server behind a reverse proxy, so I could get HTTPS working)

        Shut up, im not a nerd

      • @[email protected]
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        108 hours ago

        If you are on an android phone you should check the F-Droid pages for Seal. No commandline, a nice GUI, works great.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 hours 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.

      • @Sanctus
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        33 hours ago

        Its a package, so it gets delivered in the mail

    • @[email protected]
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      36 hours ago

      Is that just a yt-dlp front end? Was hoping it would also do the streaming which is what I currently have been thinking of setting up. Probably yt-dlp to download all latest videos and then stream that over UPNP so any device with VLC can watch over the LAN.

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        15 hours ago

        That’s what I do! Just save everything to my media server, better that way.

  • @[email protected]
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    Parabolic is super easy to use and allows you to download either a single video or entire playlist/channel. Also if you download playlists, it makes separate folders for them and embeds all the metadata you may need.

    Open-source (GPL-licensed), available for Windows and Linux.

  • @[email protected]
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    37 hours ago

    I haven’t had to do this in awhile so I can’t recommend the best downloader for this job… But I will say that this is the sort of thing where you absolutely need to have a good adblocker

    • @[email protected]
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      16 hours ago

      yt-dlp. Works right from the command line, no sketchy sites, on linux you can probably install it from your package manager

  • RejZoR
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    26 hours ago

    Actually one of the steps is always offering downlaoder EXE to get the fucking video…

    • @[email protected]
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      97 hours ago

      This might not be bullshit, but after hitting 3 separate download buttons and not starting a download, I can say without a doubt that this link is an offender.

      • SnausagesinaBlanket
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        15 hours ago

        I just tried it on 3 separate browsers and it worked fine.

        I can say without a doubt this app works great. I have been using it for almost 10 years.