I’m looking to download a number of educational youtube videos for future reference. Looking for a reliable way to download videos. OS is Ubuntu. FF extensions and docker containers all good. I don’t really want to install an executable on bare metal unless it is a flatpak.
My goal is for the downloaded videos to be accessed locally via jellyfin. Jellyfin is already sorted.
Thanks in advance for your recommendations!
For channels I want to preserve, Tube Archivist. For individual videos, yt-dlp.
I just add “pp” into the URL bar. Between the .com and youtube (youtubepp.com).
Idk if it’s safe or whatever, I get my video, and funny haha pp joke.
yt-dlp, full hd quality, best audio, reading from a txt file for every URL
Newpipe
yt-dlp with a couple scripts I wrote, depending on the usecase.
yt-dlp is pretty much the standard program for it https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
It is installable as a python module, so it should be easy to sandbox if you need to (though it requires ffmpeg too). Nowadays I almost view it as a standard unix utility though and wouldn’t think twice about installing the native package
https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer mobile and desktop
If you’re into selfhosting I’ve heard good things about tube archivist. It integrates with jellyfin
Seconded. It downloads metadata, thumbnails, and comments too. Also has a browser extension that adds a download button into YouTube to trigger downloads on the server.
I use a yt-dlp frontend like clipgrap or seal
I tend to drop the link into yt1s.com
Sometimes just for audio, sometimes for the full vid.
I’m rarely grabbing more than one video at a time though.
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I just go to YouTube to MP3, or whatever it’s called these days.
+1 for yt-dlp
jdownloader2 also works for this
on android: ytldnis
[i only trust the github one]Seal is another great downloader for Android
Just used this to load up some concerts for my long haul flights tonight and it worked great, thanks for the rec
Tartube, a gui frontend for yt-dlp
+1
Nice and easy to use too with powerful automation if you want it.
You should listen to all the yt-dlp comments, but I’ve always had trouble getting all the yt-dl variants to just download the best version and subtitles consistently.
I use 4K Video Downloader, and it’s easier to use. It has a 30 video per day limit is all, which is more than I need.
the best version is always the default for me on yt-dlp, that and
--embed-subshas always worked perfectly for me, weird you’ve had issues with it, this is the first I’ve heard of anyone having that problem.WDYM you’ve had difficulty?? Isn’t it just --embedded-subs or something?
Maybe the command line version is consistent, but day to day I prefer not to do command line. I’ve tried like 5 different GUIs and they all have failed downloads, incorrect formats, and other issues just doing test downloads. I don’t know why, but it’s been a problem every time for me.
Well there’s your problem.
Learn how to actually use a computer.
Huh… That’s really not nice.
True, that guy seems like a jerk
Also, if you only want the highest quality using the command line version is easy as running
yt-dlp “link”
for example:
yt-dlp “https://m.youtube.com/watchv=dQw4w9WgXcQ”
Although it needs ffmpeg too for certain websites that have seperate audio and video streams. Maybe that’s why your previous experiences have been wonky
If you want to use a computer you’re going to need to learn how to use it.
It’s not reasonable to expect maintainers of a very nice Python CLI tool to also maintain a GUI that works perfectly with it. Just look at the manpage if you need to find an option.
I tend to drop the link into yt1s.com
Sometimes just for audio, sometimes for the full vid.
I’m rarely grabbing more than one video at a time though.
