Does yt-dlp work on Windows?

Edit: oh I just saw I'm the third person to say yt-dlp lol

Relevant thread: https://lemmy.today/post/32621021

tl;dr https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hls-stream-detector/ + yt-dlp

Stacher, maybe? It's a GUI frontend for yt-dlp and I've had success using it elsewhere besides YouTube but YMMV.

https://cobalt.tools/ works for some things that I've needed that yt-dlp wasnt able to

It doesnt do playlists tho so its a bit labor intensive—i have to really want the videos and be unable to source them literally anywhere else at the time and it requires you to schlepp thru each single video to download manually with cobalt. Copy paste, copy paste over and over till you get every item

Jdownloader2 is some horrid looking Java program that actually kicks ass.

nowadays i just use the browser devtool, but i used to use IDM for this

I use XDM. It's open source, has no ads or other shit, and it will download almost any DRM-free video on a web page.