Is there a usable Youtube downloader?

lamarca

@cantankrus said in Is there a usable Youtube downloader?:

Use vlc to get the actual video location on the googlevideo servers.

That tip indeed deserves an upvote

jpaulbiss

@pesala If they don't want me to download the occasional video, all they have to do is block me and the other 100 or so million that visit their site.

jpaulbiss

Youtube-dl works ok. It is not as convenient as the extension in Firefox that I used to download tutorials for my video editing software.

paul1149

Yes, the command line is not as convenient as an interface. I have helped it by creating a command alias, so all I need to type is "ytdn" for the command I usually use. And the program works extremely fast.

JDownloader is a very nice piece of work. But I found two problems. First, it requires Java, and second, it is very slow. It took at least 4 minutes to download a video that ytdn did in about 12 seconds.

Catweazle

I use a desktop utility

https://yvd.sourceforge.io/

GPL Open Source, works fine but only for YT

Downloading videos is not a crime, by the way, while it is for private non-profit use.
However, it is illegal to upload music videos or movies that are not your own to YT and charge for clicks, as this is for profit

lamarca

@catweazle The VLC tip is great!

Catweazle

@lamarca said in Is there a usable Youtube downloader?:

@catweazle The VLC tip is great!

Yes, with the VLC there are also possibilities, although you can not download videos directly, but you can record it in sxreaming with the VLC

lamarca

@catweazle There is a website conversor vídeo which hogs all your CPU.
wanna test?

Catweazle

@lamarca said in Is there a usable Youtube downloader?:

@catweazle There is a website conversor vídeo which hogs all your CPU.
wanna test?

The smal CPU I have. Do not forget that my laptop is already very old

nearbaskara

Internet Download Manager is good

Felemur

Please don't hate me for this suggestion, I'm a Vivaldi fan through and through, but there are times when I go to the dark side and use other browsers for specific reasons, and one of the best ways (IMO) to download a YouTube or other video, or just the sound is to use the SlimJet Browser. It has the YouTube downloader built right into it, and you can easily choose the parameters and just download and convert.

The nice thing about doing it this way, is you can preview and download the video all in one place with no copy and paste of the URL. Also, SlimJet is Blink based, so you can use most any Chrome extension - including uBlock origin, so you can do away with YouTube ads.

Once you go to a Youtube video, just look on the bottom left of the video, and click "Download Video" and a box will pop up with choices.

https://www.slimjet.com/

PS - I did make the suggestion in the suggestion thread for Vivaldi to add a downloader like SlimJet, and I even included a link and description. Still not too late to add it!

Zalex108

EagleGet - you need the app too -.
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bimlas

I use 4k video downloader to download video or extract audio only (for music).

mib2berlin

@felemur
Hi, checking Slimjet but video download on Youtube does not work.

Opensuse Leap 42.3 x86_64
CPU Intel T4200 4 GB
GPU Intel GN 965
xf86-video-intel 2.99.917-6.1
KDE Plasma 5.8.7

Cheers, mib

Felemur

@mib2berlin said in Is there a usable Youtube downloader?:

@felemur
Hi, checking Slimjet but video download on Youtube does not work.

Opensuse Leap 42.3 x86_64
CPU Intel T4200 4 GB
GPU Intel GN 965
xf86-video-intel 2.99.917-6.1
KDE Plasma 5.8.7

Cheers, mib

Hmmm, never had that problem - I use Mint Linux (Ubuntu). Not sure if that has anything to do with it. I'm busy today, so won't be able to reply again until tomorrow, but here is some info, not sure if it will help:

If the video is 360p only, try this:
https://www.slimjet.com/en/force-flash-on-youtube.htm

Basic info:
https://www.slimjet.com/en/download-youtube-videos.php
https://www.slimjet.com/en/webhelp/youtube-video-downloader.htm

Forum (creators of Slimjet do reply). Like here, the folks on this forum are very helpful:
https://www.slimjet.com/en/forum/

Zalex108

* EagleGet - you need the app too -.
Sorry, forgot you are on Linux.

paul1149

@felemur said in Is there a usable Youtube downloader?:

the SlimJet Browser

This was how I did it too, before I found youtube-dl. SJ is a good way to go, and it still works for me here on Linux.

cc: @mib2berlin

Felemur

@paul1149 said in Is there a usable Youtube downloader?:

@felemur said in Is there a usable Youtube downloader?:

the SlimJet Browser

This was how I did it too, before I found youtube-dl. SJ is a good way to go, and it still works for me here on Linux.

cc: @mib2berlin

Now that there is a GUI for YouTube-dl, I install it on computers that I replace Windows with Linux for friends / family. In Mint Linux, go to the software manager, and search for youtube, then check Youtube-dl and Youtube-dlg, install, and you get the GUI version of Youtube-dl which you can start from the Menu, and never have to use the bash version. You can do the usual Youtube-dl stuff like extract audio to mp3, etc.

paul1149

@felemur Interesting. I think the command line is virtually as easy, and has a lot more power, but there is a bit of a learning curve and I can see that some would prefer the GUI.

BW.

Felemur

@paul1149 said in Is there a usable Youtube downloader?:

@felemur Interesting. I think the command line is virtually as easy, and has a lot more power, but there is a bit of a learning curve and I can see that some would prefer the GUI.

BW.

I agree - I still use the command line version myself when I use it, even though I have installed the GUI version so I could learn it to teach others.

Its just that I find it easier (on myself) to teach former Windows users how to use Linux if I can avoid the command line at first. Windows users look at the command line like something totally impenetrable. So, I just say to them (if they don't want any other browser than Chrome or Firefox), just click menu and type "Youtube" and click the one that says, "Youtube dl GUI" and select what you want and click start.

One day I sent someone who wanted to extract .mp3 files from a video for their phone this by email: youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https:// and said, "paste that after the $ in the terminal and paste the youtube URL after that and hit Enter. I had to exchange about 8 emails with them before they could make it work. I decided after that to not even tell them about the terminal version and install the GUI. My nerves could not take it!