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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] SolOrion 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't know that I've ever had jdownloader 2 fail to download a video- maybe give that a go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

95% of the sites I tried jDownloader works. Nice thing is, you can just copy and paste the URL if the site, no need to crawl for the video stream url.

Highly recommended

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You don’t even have to paste 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"internet Download Manager". Stupid name , great tool. Not just for video-dl. Not free though, but only a fair pay-once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

yt-dlp and jdownloader.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could you link to an example

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I have had the most success with Firefox, grease monkey and media downloader

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

DVD is a good android app on fdroid, and 9xbuddy is a decent (though riddled with ads) web based solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Newpipe found on fdroid.org is also great.