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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[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 76 points 4 months ago

I always use yt-dlp do download youtube videos. It doesn't require installation, you just download and run it.

[-] ReedReads@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago

I was just looking at this. Do you typically run it behind a VPN or do you expose your actual IP?

[-] chris@lem.cochrun.xyz 28 points 4 months ago

I've never used a VPN with it.

[-] ReedReads@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago

okay. Thanks. Gonna give it a go. It seems to be the one everyone is using.

[-] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 months ago

If you want a gui for android take a look at Seal, for Linux Parabolic.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I used to use yt-dl(whatever) but Seal is just so much more convenient

[-] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I’ve never used a VPN with it either. But it should work, especially with an exit node in a country where Google has no incentive to/is prohibited from interfering with third party viewers.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

but unless i am missing some edge case, there isn't really a reason, downloading video from youtube is perfectly legal, it wouldn't work otherwise after all

[-] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 7 points 4 months ago

Love the handle, BTW. :)

I think downloading is against Google’s TOS. Whether that makes it illegal is a question for a lawyer.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Love the handle, BTW. :)

thank you

I think downloading is against Google’s TOS

maybe, but you are not going to jail for that. at least not today.

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

I use it all the time without any VPN and haven't had any issues. I watch almost all youtube videos in MPV, which uses yt-dlp to get the video. I download any video I may want to watch again later to my server.

[-] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

No need of VPN. But it wouldn't harm if you wanted to have more privacy

[-] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

It shouldn't be needed but if you want extra privacy, you can try torsocks.

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago

I never used a VPN with it. I've been using it for years. I figured I'm getting it directly for YouTube. Google already knows my IP. I figured they wouldn't care unless I abuse it anyway.