Most kids today don't know how to use a computer, but old farts like me use yt-dlp.
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Yt-dlp is what I see mostly
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yt-dlp
As others have already said, yt-dlp is absolutely the gold standard. It even works in Termux. As for a dedicated Android app, there are apps like Seal which are effectively just wrappers for yt-dlp. Then the open source YouTube clients like Tubular, which are primarily for browsing/watching videos, have a download button on every video.
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yt-dlp is great for cli, and if you want a web gui, you can run metube in docker
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On Android Newpipe has the best UI in my opinion.
I use GUI wrappers for yt-dlp - Parabolic on Fedora GNOME and Seal on Android
Metube is a nice UI with yt-dlp as a background that is updated regularly.
I use jdownloader2.
Paste a YouTube link and it will download the thumbnail, the video, a separate audio, and the transcript.
It will also download from a lot of video hosting sites if you know what I mean 😜
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I use newpipe on phone but metube isn't too hard to install with docker
I've downloaded many videos with PipePipe on my Android.
On Android I use Seal. Aside from an occasional hiccup it’s awesome and does a phenomenal job 99% of the time. If I ever can’t get one item to work and there’s no alternative, I use one of the ones on my Linux machine. I’ll post the name when I’m home and can check.
Parabolic
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I still use Pinchflat. It doesn’t exactly do as I like, but I’m mostly just downloading two channels, so it’s okay enough for me.
TubeArchivist rules
I’m not really looking to do this with apps since google is pretty close to the regime so anything good could be taken down at any time. I want something to copies it down and I pull in with my existing stack like Pinchflat did, but cleaner.
Part of this is I’m still on apple. I’m looking at fleeing, but certainly not to google. Until I finally get off my ass and get a Linux phone, let’s just assume this has to work from a webUI
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.
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I use metube on the server and made mobile integration with Android using "HTTP Shortcuts" to easily submit links to metube via its API. Just a simple Android share click and it's done.
I use metube and Pinchflat.
Metube is great for one-off video downloads and works for many sites including social media. This comes in handy a lot when I want to send a short reel to friends without linking to Facebook, etc.
Pinchflat automatically downloads my favorites playlists and a couple other channels that I follow. These videos go into specific folders that are linked to Plex libraries.
I use Tubular
Yt.dlp. I wrote a small pyrhon script to give me a gui. Works really well.
On Android, I use ytdlnis, which is a wrapper around yt-dlp. You can "share" a video from to YouTube app to ytdlnis and it'll add it to the download queue.
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NewPipe
Is there anything that works for Vimeo?
yt-dlp, but most of the time you'll use some form of front end. All the "youtube downloaders", even the shady websites, are using yt-dlp. For selfhosted purposes, I like MeTube for individual downloads and Tubesync for keeping up with channels.
https://cobalt.tools/ is good idk if it works still
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