I wouldn’t need such a tool usually, but when I watch content in my native language, the sites are clearly overused, and the video blocks every 5 seconds. On Android I use LJ Video Downloader, and I’m wondering if there’s something for Windows.
It’s yt-dlp. Don’t mess with any of the front ends, just learn how to type “yt-dlp” and whatever flags you want then paste your url.
Jdownloader2 is some horrid looking Java program that actually kicks ass.
And runs on Mac — probably anything that can use Java (so, not an iPhone/iPad). Keyboard shortcuts are different but otherwise, it works exactly the same.
God forbid they give us an official dark mode though! There is a hack, it doesn’t survive reboots/updates though and the thing updates a few times a day… I stopped trying after doing it a few times.
But yes, Jd2. Usually you can throw a link at it and it will parse it and give you the file. Though on sites like OP asked for, they are almost always lo-res and watermarked.
Stacher, maybe? It’s a GUI frontend for yt-dlp and I’ve had success using it elsewhere besides YouTube but YMMV.
https://cobalt.tools/ works for some things that I’ve needed that yt-dlp wasnt able to
It doesnt do playlists tho so its a bit labor intensive—i have to really want the videos and be unable to source them literally anywhere else at the time and it requires you to schlepp thru each single video to download manually with cobalt. Copy paste, copy paste over and over till you get every item
Does yt-dlp work on Windows?
Edit: oh I just saw I’m the third person to say yt-dlp lol
And I will be the 4th.
Ytdlp ftw