What is your preferred way of downloading youtube videos? (lemmy.zip)

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I'm looking to download a number of educational youtube videos for future reference. Looking for a reliable way to download videos. OS is Ubuntu. FF extensions and docker containers all good. I don't really want to install an executable on bare metal unless it is a flatpak.

My goal is for the downloaded videos to be accessed locally via jellyfin. Jellyfin is already sorted.

Thanks in advance for your recommendations!

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[-] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 month ago

Huh... That's really not nice.

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True, that guy seems like a jerk

Also, if you only want the highest quality using the command line version is easy as running

yt-dlp "link"

for example:

yt-dlp "https://m.youtube.com/watchv=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

Although it needs ffmpeg too for certain websites that have seperate audio and video streams. Maybe that's why your previous experiences have been wonky

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today -5 points 1 month ago

If you want to use a computer you're going to need to learn how to use it.

It's not reasonable to expect maintainers of a very nice Python CLI tool to also maintain a GUI that works perfectly with it. Just look at the manpage if you need to find an option.