I wouldn’t need such a tool usually, but when I watch content in my native language, the sites are clearly overused, and the video blocks every 5 seconds. On Android I use LJ Video Downloader, and I’m wondering if there’s something for Windows.
Jdownloader2 is some horrid looking Java program that actually kicks ass.
Relevant thread: https://lemmy.today/post/32621021
tl;dr https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hls-stream-detector/ +
yt-dlpDoes yt-dlp work on Windows?
Edit: oh I just saw I’m the third person to say yt-dlp lol
And I will be the 4th.
Ytdlp ftw
https://cobalt.tools/ works for some things that I’ve needed that yt-dlp wasnt able to
It doesnt do playlists tho so its a bit labor intensive—i have to really want the videos and be unable to source them literally anywhere else at the time and it requires you to schlepp thru each single video to download manually with cobalt. Copy paste, copy paste over and over till you get every item
Stacher, maybe? It’s a GUI frontend for yt-dlp and I’ve had success using it elsewhere besides YouTube but YMMV.
nowadays i just use the browser devtool, but i used to use IDM for this
You can’t always use the dev tools. Sometimes the sites have JavaScript that detects when you open the dev tools and then lock stuff up more.
yeah right… btw theres an about:config item on firefox that fixes one of the glitches sites use to block devtools. (the paused on breakpoint thing)
RTFMegathread
Link? I went to https://lemmy.today/post/18243468 , but didn’t see anything relevant. (I’m sure there probably is something relevant in there, but it’s a huge area to sift through.)
Thats the idea, go in the rabbit hole
