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I always use yt-dlp do download youtube videos. It doesn't require installation, you just download and run it.
I was just looking at this. Do you typically run it behind a VPN or do you expose your actual IP?
I've never used a VPN with it.
okay. Thanks. Gonna give it a go. It seems to be the one everyone is using.
I’ve never used a VPN with it either. But it should work, especially with an exit node in a country where Google has no incentive to/is prohibited from interfering with third party viewers.
but unless i am missing some edge case, there isn't really a reason, downloading video from youtube is perfectly legal, it wouldn't work otherwise after all
Love the handle, BTW. :)
I think downloading is against Google’s TOS. Whether that makes it illegal is a question for a lawyer.
Love the handle, BTW. :)
thank you
I think downloading is against Google’s TOS
maybe, but you are not going to jail for that. at least not today.
It shouldn't be needed but if you want extra privacy, you can try torsocks.
I use it all the time without any VPN and haven't had any issues. I watch almost all youtube videos in MPV, which uses yt-dlp to get the video. I download any video I may want to watch again later to my server.
I never used a VPN with it. I've been using it for years. I figured I'm getting it directly for YouTube. Google already knows my IP. I figured they wouldn't care unless I abuse it anyway.
No need of VPN. But it wouldn't harm if you wanted to have more privacy
I used a program based on that and got a block I think. I get errors in the logs saying I need to use the official YouTube app.
Anything to look out for or best practices for a noob? I think I got seen.
yt-dlp, full hd quality, best audio, reading from a txt file for every URL
I use a yt-dlp frontend like clipgrap or seal
+1 for yt-dlp
jdownloader2 also works for this
For channels I want to preserve, Tube Archivist. For individual videos, yt-dlp.
yt-dlp with a couple scripts I wrote, depending on the usecase.
JDownloader 2 has never let me down.
I pretty much only do it on my phone, pretty much the only place I watch videos. So I just use either Newpipe or Pipepipe, a Newpipe fork.
TubeArchivist with a browser extension to easily download any interesting video I want to preserve.
I have pending to link TubeArchivist to jellyfin for a more convenient frontend for my videos.
Tartube, a gui frontend for yt-dlp
+1
Nice and easy to use too with powerful automation if you want it.
Newpipe
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.
I just go to YouTube to MP3, or whatever it's called these days.
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.
[re-commenting as I meant this to be a top-level comment, not a reply]
I self-host MeTube, and have a shortcut set up for my share-screen. When I see a video I want downloaded, I hit the Share button, and press the custom script that sends the link to be downloaded onto my Emby server.
Skytube
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