youtube-dl VS yt-dlp

2021.12.17

You can use yt-dlp or youtube-dl to download videos from almost any site.

/u/savevideo if you're on phone, or youtube-dl if you're cool.

Odd that no one's answered this by the time I came across it. Anyway, when someone uploads a GIF to Reddit, Reddit creates a video preview, which you can easily save with the usual right-click and save as or click through to request the original GIF. However, when someone uploads an actual video, Reddit will process that into a video format optimized for web viewing, with adaptive quality based on connection, and so on (called DASH video, if you're interested). For these, you'll have to use a tool. The easiest are the various websites where you can just input the thread URL and it gives you a link to download the video, like redditsave.com. I personally prefer using standalone software like youtube-dl, or its more active fork yt-dlp (which has extra features like the ability to detect when a video has chapters and download each one as a separate file).

I've already tried to use cookies from the session (see the above command) but it just gives me a 404 not found. Apparently this should be possible in yt-dlp. I found this github page of someone trying do that and apparently yt-dlp and youtube-dl should work with it: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28521. It has a few examples of

youtube-dl (or even better, yt-dlp), is your friend: https://i.imgur.com/Je473TQ.png

Hi, Upgraded Version GameStop US Congressional Hearings Part 1, 2, and 3 geared toward mass viewing, research for docs, downloading for posting directly to sub (to download use youtube-dl or youtube-dlp, and most importantly YouTube Algorithm searchability (people need to be able to find them):**

Grab Youtube-dl.exe, and you'll need to have an SBS on Demand account, of course. You'll also need a copy of ffmpeg.exe in the same folder (just ffmpeg.exe, not the other files in the packages, try here or here).

I recall that discussion recently, and thus just happen to have it handy:

a very, very specialized "regex" based JS evaluator that presumably did just enough to make the YT one run: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/2021.12.17/youtu...

and its callsite: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/2021.12.17/youtu...

So the short version is that I would not classify that as a VM, and I don't even believe it's obfuscated. Perhaps there are other extractors that do what you're describing, I didn't go looking

Some options suggested by the following, that may not have been in the old version of the program/manual page I have installed: * https://write.corbpie.com/downloading-a-youtube-channel-with-yt-dlp/ * https://github.com/dmn001/youtube_channel_archiver * https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3958 The following might embed the comments into the video file instead of separately --no-write-info-json --embed-info-json --write-comments

you can do it

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (or use https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui if you want a GUI)

Switching to yt-dlp might be difficult if you are not accustomed to using and configuring a command-line, but if you can invest the time, yt-dlp is highly configurable and can solve many issues like what you describe.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (or use https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui if you want a GUI), then download the latest n5.1 (non-shared) zip for your platform (e.g. win64) from https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds and extract the 3 executables from the bin folder to the same folder as your yt-dlp executable.