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What is your preferred way of downloading youtube videos?

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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
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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
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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
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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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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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Fleppensteyn@feddit.nl
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It shouldn’t be needed but if you want extra privacy, you can try torsocks.

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Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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yt-dlp with a couple scripts I wrote, depending on the usecase.

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TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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I just go to YouTube to MP3, or whatever it’s called these days.

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Deello@lemm.ee
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+1 for yt-dlp

jdownloader2 also works for this

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WorkingClassCorpse [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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If you’re into selfhosting I’ve heard good things about tube archivist. It integrates with jellyfin

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local_taxi_fix [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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Seconded. It downloads metadata, thumbnails, and comments too. Also has a browser extension that adds a download button into YouTube to trigger downloads on the server.

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