I have VideoDownloadHelper addon for Firefox, and most of the time it works. There are some exceptions of course, where it cannot download the video. But I love finding out new ways to do it, in case the old ways fail one day. Good post, man!
Thanks!
It's a must have add on, but it's still just an add on, we should know the basics of what's happening behind the scenes to sail the 7 seas.
The reason I posted that is to inspire some of you in creating fancy scripts that can easily do more than just downloading one video.
VideoDownloadHelper is really cool. I use it in chrome to download music and vids. Every 500th download it congratulates you and asks for a donation or some positive review.
This doesn't have to do with the topic at hand, but it's just so cool being able to directly reference sites and ways to download on Lemmy, rather than dancing around the topic on Reddit.
Until copyright owners start banging on providers of those who host these instances sadly. Give it a few years and we will be back there
My fellow crewmen, yt-dlp is great but you don't need it if you have vlc installed on your pc, you could just open Convert / Save function (Ctrl + R for shortcut), click the "Network" tab", paste the hls (m3u8) or dash (mpd) link and save it as you normally would.
Alternatively, ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,crypto,data,https,tls,tcp -stats -i <URL.m3u8> -codec copy <FILE.mp4>
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Also, some m3u8's are just files containing redirects to other m3u8's in various resolutions. You might want to extract the one you need and download that.
You are the only ~~person~~ legend who, with this command, has allowed me to download a video from a shitty website that "breaks" the movies/series into small pieces. THANK YOU
EDIT: Movie, not Film
A r/piracy post that is actually useful? A sign of the times
Adding to topic:
If you want an android specific tool. Use seal from fdroid
seal is so good. i use syncthing to sync my music library, seal downloads from my phone and yt-dlp from my pc. works perfectly ;)
Xtreme Download Manager lets you do this with ease (and more) and can check for the latest yt-dlp version before downloading on its own.
MPC-HC lets you play and download YouTube videos using yt-dlp.
Is there something similar for android? Used to use amaze browser but don't know there's better options out there.
There's a few websites I've been to where this methodology doesn't work, and it's not because there's no m3u file or whatever. Some sites will work fine but then the moment I open dev tools the site will freeze. I think the site knows when I open dev tools and makes itself essentially crash.
They mostly use inline JavaScript to determine if the dev tools are open. If open, then they put you in a loop that will only end of the tools are closed. Normally when this happens the debugger will "pause" at the line in question.
If you know how to use the "unlock origin" extension, you can then block the JavaScript inline function so it won't run. Then the page will not stop when the dev tools are open.
You can Google how to block inline JavaScript with ublock origin.
I thought yt-dlp autmatically parsed the page looking for m3u8 links.
It's been a while since I needed it for anything other than Youtube though.
Glad to see the call for ethical piracy in this thread. As pirates, we should be more understanding of the fact that information should be shared without any red tape so to speak.
JDownloader has handled just about everything I've thrown at it
My fellow crewmen, yt-dlp is great but you don’t need it if you have vlc installed on your pc, you could just open Convert / Save function (Ctrl + R for shortcut), click the “Network” tab", paste the hls (m3u8) or dash (mpd) link and save it as you normally would.
On Mozilla Firefox if a video is played in an iFrame - you can:
Right click -> This Frame -> View Frame Info -> Media tab.
There you can see all pics and videos loading in that iFrame
There is also yt-dlg, one of the frontends for youtube-dl or yt-dlp.
Any website? Including all the streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, etc?
They have a lot of good tools and guides for getting setup to pull drm encrypted streams. You’ll need access to an android device that has root to be able to pull drm keys from. It took me a bit to figure out how to get it setup. They had to remove the all in one setup page so the software is outdated but I followed this (https://web.archive.org/web/20230315101847/https://cdm-project.com/cdm-tools/how-to) and just searched for the latest versions of the software they reference and got it working to download off disney+ and wowpresentsplus
Just install this download manager https://neatdownloadmanager.com/index.php/en/
Literarily catches any media even better than IDM and its free.
Interesting! I do something similar except I just scour the media F12 tab until I find what I'm looking for
There fancier ways to do this, it's just an intro. What exactly are you usually looking for?
Information is Ammunition
This works 80% of the time, but I always have issues with jwplayer.
Thanks! I will have to test it on some obscure local websites on which most of the downloaders not work.
I'd recommend trying gogoanime etc first, then sail the deep waters :)
Been using j Downloader but It doesn't work with spankbang anymore will give it a try
yeah yt-dlp is really good.
I wrote a terminal interface for personal use, so that it could read my list of links, extract the titles, and download the videos with proper filename that I want.
I also have a keyboardmaestro macro that automatically detects youtube links from my clipboard and inserts them into my download list. I've been using this approach for 2 - 3 years.
If I like a video, I'd actually go back to YouTube, give them an upvote and leave a comment.
Spotdl for downloading Spotify music. It's amazing also
But for blob:urls
you need an extension.
Im going to assume this would also pull hard subs but has anyone tested it to know if it will also pull normal subs?
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