I’m looking for a good, reliable way to download embedded YouTube videos. These videos are not always accessible on YouTube.com, so the method can’t be specific to that site. Thanks for any recommendations!
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YT-DLP always works great for YouTube and some other sites. There are also a few browser extensions around, called similar to Video Download Helper. But don’t install the super fishy ones, I don’t know which of them are good.
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In my experience nowadays video is often streamed with something like hls and pieced together with a javascript player. If that’s the case inspecting the source won’t help you much as its hundreds of 4s snippets or something like that. It could be worth a try but often times you really need a tool to do it.
Media Downloader - https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader
It’s a front end for yt-dlp, but lets you add other plugins too. I find it easier to use, because of the gui options :)
Tyvm!
I have had the most success with Firefox, grease monkey and media downloader
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DVD is a good android app on fdroid, and 9xbuddy is a decent (though riddled with ads) web based solution.
Newpipe found on fdroid.org is also great.
