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Hiya, so looking to download videos of certain websites. So far been using https://www.downloadhelper.net/ extension to download the videos manually, but it turns into a very tedious process after a while. Looking for a way to automate this process :) Let me know if there are any tools, programs or solutions to grab stuff off the internet.

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[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Yt-dlp?

If you want to download several videos on the same website, just write a python script in combination with the yt-dlp command. It’s not that hard.

It supports downloading playlists on some websites and also supports reading a file with URLs.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Figured it was YT specific, but will check it out in more detail - thanks :)

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

oh wow even the site I wanted to download from is listed there.. Well this solves exactly what i was looking for :)

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, it does videos of websites? What are you looking to capture, exactly? Like, screen recordings of what the website looks like?

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

No I wanted to download videos of a specific streaming service, as certain shows are about get removed.