What is your preferred way of downloading youtube videos?

posted 8 months ago

piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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!

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de

32 points

8 months ago

I always use yt-dlp do download youtube videos. It doesn’t require installation, you just download and run it.

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ReedReads@lemmy.zipOP

8 points

8 months ago

I was just looking at this. Do you typically run it behind a VPN or do you expose your actual IP?

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de

2 points

8 months ago

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.

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IllNess@infosec.pub

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8 months ago

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.

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