downloading youtube videos

[siamhie]

yt-dlp & clipgrab. I like to download hour long documentary's to watch on the tele ad-free (YouTube channel on Roku shows the ads).

[Stevo]

clipgrab does not work for me on videos bigger than a few kilobytes for some reason. I use youtubeDL and youtube downloader that use the ytd package from MX repo. I have noticed only youtube downloader downloads fast. The youtubeDL-GUI only downloads at 58kbps for Youtube but fast for other sites. Clipgrab would not work at all or only for tiny files

Well, that's a puzzle. Could you start clipgrab from the terminal and see if any messages appear there when it fails to grab?

[pianokeyjoe]

Huh!? Was clipgrab updated with a better backend recently?? It works now and goes real fast! Last time I tried this was back in Summer or Spring of 2021. Ah well! YAY! Clipgrab works! Here is a snippet of what has happened in the terminal that has worked though there are some errors:

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$ clipgrab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGH1BitjcgE
Gtk-Message: 20:26:25.042: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"
QObject::connect: signal not found in QTreeView
  OpenType support missing for "Segoe UI", script 12
  OpenType support missing for "Segoe UI", script 13
Found youtube-dlp  "2021.12.27"
Discovered video:  "The Next 48 Hours... Be Ready"
"/home/linux/Desktop" "The Next 48 Hours... Be Ready"
"[youtube] IGH1BitjcgE: Downloading webpage\n"
"[youtube] IGH1BitjcgE: Downloading android player API JSON\n"
"[info] IGH1BitjcgE: Downloading 1 format(s): 22\n"
"[download] Destination: /tmp/cg-youtube-dl-IGH1BitjcgE-22.mp4\n"

[figueroa]

yt-dlp is a good alternative to youtube-dl.

[pianokeyjoe]

youtube-dlp! Thats what I have that is working now ok! Or yt-dlp? My messages above show youtube-dlp. Now here is the kicker; Now clipgrab works for me where it did not in Spring/Summer 2021, and of course the youtube downloader gui that goes with youtube-dlp from what was testing back then. Now I still have and use the old YoutubeDL-GUI app that was used and coupled with the old youtube-dl that no longer downloads fast with youtube.com but DOES work well with other sites! Why I still use that older app? Cause you can queue up tons of videos to download, and then click the download button when you are ready to fill up you hard drive lol. The newer youtube downloader gui seems to only allow ONE download at a time and even though I choose mp4 as my output, it sometimes outputs webm or mkv. I guess since 2022 came around, we now have more choices interfaces that work with yt-dlp/youtube-dlp, that it is now purely about what suites you best for your particular download needs, and not just "this is what you have, be happy you even have that" sort of thing we were having to deal with not long ago.

[Stevo]

Yes, Clipgrab 3.9.7 switched to an internal yt-dlp to fix the exact issue you reported. Currently, it's good.

[rosie]

There's also media-downloader.

[handy]

I use the terminal & a bash alias to run a tiny little script I wrote, that asks you to input the url of the vid, then you hit enter which calls youtube-dl & tells it to downloads the vid to the location that you've set in the ~/.config/youtube-dl/config , which is just one line (in my case) that tell youtube-dl where to put the vid & in & how to package it (.mkv or mp4).

Its probably the most common thing that I do in my terminal these days, so I usually just have to hit the up cursor key once or twice to see "dv" (that's the alias), hit enter, which asks for the url, then ctrl shift v , to paste in the url , hit enter & the vid then starts downloading.

Works for me (for quite a few years now... :) )

[davidy]

Shoots if clipgrab was fixed that's awesome. I've been using newpipe on my phone, uploading to my nas and then downloading to my laptop. Installing now... fingers crossed. Works so far. sweet

[tha76]

I use youtubeDL and youtube downloader that use the ytd package from MX repo.

What exactly are you referring to?