Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube
Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube
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yt-dlp remains unaffected for now.
yt-dlp is only affected when YT changes their algorithms (breaking yt-dlp data scrapping capabilities) or when it's used frequently with the same IP address (leading to automatic IP blockage). If you're using yt-dlp sporadically, it shouldn't be affected.
I've hit that blockade before. Pushing yt-dlp over Tor usually does the trick.
Is there a gui interface for that anywhere? I really can’t be bothered to learn the command line just to download a couple vids here and there. Especially when freetube still works for now. But if the barrier to entry was a little lower, I’d start backing up faves.
yt-dlg for windows
This looks promising, thanks
The basic command is just
yt-dlp 'www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'tho.That will get me a minimum 1080p vid with sound? Cuz looking at the instructions, it looks a lot more complicated.
I've actually never looked into
yt-dlp's default behaviour, as I've always been happy with the video and audio quality of the downloaded video. Probing the downloaded video from the command in my comment above yields for the videoVideo: vp9 (Profile 0) (vp09 / 0x39307076), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080, 3751 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 16k tbn (default), and for the audioAudio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default).Great to know. Thanks for the follow up
There was a linux version but it seems to have gone poof. For Windows users there's : https://yt-bat.github.io/
Seal for Android is a solid client