Video Download Plugin : firefox

[+] stormio@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you use Android, I recommend Seal. It uses yt-dlp internally, nicely packaged into an Android app.

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately Seal has not had a release in over a year, since October 2024. It may still work but due to a recent (November 2025) change in yt-dlp an external JavaScript runtime is now required for full YouTube support.

There is YTDLnis as an alternative. It's on F-Droid but for some reason the page for it 404's (it's clearly there in my client though).

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Ah, good to know.

I haven't downloaded anything from YouTube recently, but will switch to YTDLnis.

Thanks!

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 2 points 3 months ago

This is what I use. I use OpenWith extension to invoke yt-dlp from Firefox. This extension was abandoned in 2021 but it still works.

[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Video DownloadHelper sounds like it would meet your needs. It's even recommended by Firefox.

[–] mulcahey@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I've used this for 10+ years. It's incredibly versatile, stable, and effective. I used it this week to download some TV episodes from a (bootleg) streaming site. It's a great extension.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

it used to work great, but (kind of) recently there was an update that made it take WAY longer and added a QR code to a corner that takes up like 30% of the screen. thr qr code sends you to their website, which then says you can remove the QR code by paying them

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's no need to involve a third party server for this. yt-dlp + Open With extension can do this all locally.

Don't be fooled by the name, yt-dlp supports many more sites than just YouTube

[–] PixelDrift@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry to bother you with this, but do you know of a simple tutorial on how to get from a GitHub link to something I can work with? I'm still pretty new to Linux and have no idea about Git, compiling, dependencies, and all that stuff.

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 months ago

This was linked to in the github readme:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

Personally, I use pip to install yt-dlp beta versions because YouTube changes so fast.

pip install -U --pre yt-dlp[default]

[–] PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Cat Catch is the only one ive found to work properly. It looks a bit sketchy and isn't very intuitive but it does work.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Xtreme download manager + it's browser extension.

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