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youtube downloader
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Maurice Helwig
2024-06-29 05:22:33 UTC
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Youtubedownloader -- found here
https://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/download.html
Does not seem to be working now.

Has anyone else had this problem. I am using Win 11 pro.

Any other alternative downloaders

Maurice Helwig
Paul
2024-06-29 08:02:57 UTC
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Post by Maurice Helwig
Youtubedownloader -- found here
https://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/download.html
Does not seem to be working now.
Has anyone else had this problem. I am using Win 11 pro.
Any other alternative downloaders
Maurice Helwig
Github has a problem with browsers. It might not accept Palemoon.
It might not accept an older browser. And so on.

YT-dlp can download movie content from around 10,000 web sites.

Youtube is just one of them. The basic command is yt-dlp <URL of page>
and it will download video. For example, when there was some government
corruption here, and I pointed yt-dlp at a news site, it inadvertently
sucked down every video report on the topic of the corruption.
Around 1GB of videos :-) I didn't even know all those videos were
hiding on the web page. But the downloader located the links in the code.
Pretty funny. And it did serve as quite a backgrounder,
the history of the thing (a real estate scam).

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/README.md

yt-dlp.exe

Windows (Win7 SP1+) standalone x64 binary (recommended for Windows)

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe

Windows (Win7 SP1+) standalone x86 (32-bit) binary

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_x86.exe

It needs updates to the configuration files occasionally, to remain functional.
I have not tested it recently.

Paul
David E. Ross
2024-06-29 15:29:25 UTC
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Post by Paul
Post by Maurice Helwig
Youtubedownloader -- found here
https://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/download.html
Does not seem to be working now.
Has anyone else had this problem. I am using Win 11 pro.
Any other alternative downloaders
Maurice Helwig
Github has a problem with browsers. It might not accept Palemoon.
It might not accept an older browser. And so on.
YT-dlp can download movie content from around 10,000 web sites.
Youtube is just one of them. The basic command is yt-dlp <URL of page>
and it will download video. For example, when there was some government
corruption here, and I pointed yt-dlp at a news site, it inadvertently
sucked down every video report on the topic of the corruption.
Around 1GB of videos :-) I didn't even know all those videos were
hiding on the web page. But the downloader located the links in the code.
Pretty funny. And it did serve as quite a backgrounder,
the history of the thing (a real estate scam).
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/README.md
yt-dlp.exe
Windows (Win7 SP1+) standalone x64 binary (recommended for Windows)
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe
Windows (Win7 SP1+) standalone x86 (32-bit) binary
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_x86.exe
It needs updates to the configuration files occasionally, to remain functional.
I have not tested it recently.
Paul
I consider github to be user hostile, not user friendly. It is just too
confusing to find anything there (at leasst for me, and my entire 43
year career was in developing and testing computer software). yt-dlp is
executed via a command line while ClipGrab has a Windows user GUI.
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Demonstrators worldwide are demanding that Israel stop
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J. P. Gilliver
2024-06-29 18:47:09 UTC
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In message <v5p98n$3vrb1$***@dont-email.me> at Sat, 29 Jun 2024 08:29:25,
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Post by David E. Ross
I consider github to be user hostile, not user friendly. It is just too
confusing to find anything there (at leasst for me, and my entire 43
year career was in developing and testing computer software). yt-dlp is
executed via a command line while ClipGrab has a Windows user GUI.
Agreed, it's one of the more hostile sites!

However, once you've _got_ yt-dlp installed, you never need go to github
again (for yt-dlp, anyway); just issuing

yt-dlp -U

(must be a capital U!) will cause it to update itself, as long as you've
got it in a folder with no spaces in the path (so not in Program Files;
mine's in D:\videos\yt-dlp). It even works if you rename it - I've
renamed it in mine to just y.exe, and "y -U" still updates it (and gives
the new version the name y.exe too).
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The best way to achieve immortality is by not dying.
David E. Ross
2024-06-29 15:22:30 UTC
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Post by Maurice Helwig
Youtubedownloader -- found here
https://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/download.html
Does not seem to be working now.
Has anyone else had this problem. I am using Win 11 pro.
Any other alternative downloaders
Maurice Helwig
YouTube seems to keep changing to prevent downloads. I use ClipGrab
from <https://clipgrab.org/>, which in tern uses yt-dlp from
<https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme>. yt-dlp is actively changed
to keep up compensating for the changes in YouTube.

NOTE WELL: Download the ClibGrab installer and then disable your
Internet connection before executing it. Otherwise, you are at risk of
also installing nagware, which some consider malware.

Also, do not bother downloading and installing yt-dlp. ClipGrab will do
that automatically the first time you execute it. Of course, that means
you need to enable your Internet connection.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

Demonstrators worldwide are demanding that Israel stop
fighting in Gaza. Why does it seem that no one is demanding
that Hamas stop fighting? And where are the demonstrations
against Russia fighting in the Ukraine.
J. P. Gilliver
2024-06-29 18:36:20 UTC
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Post by Maurice Helwig
Youtubedownloader -- found here
https://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/download.html
Does not seem to be working now.
Has anyone else had this problem. I am using Win 11 pro.
Any other alternative downloaders
Maurice Helwig
Is working for me (version 2024.05.27).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)***@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The best way to achieve immortality is by not dying.
Maurice Helwig
2024-06-30 20:15:52 UTC
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Post by J. P. Gilliver
Post by Maurice Helwig
Youtubedownloader -- found here
https://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/download.html
Does not seem to be working now.
Has anyone else had this problem. I am using Win 11 pro.
Any other alternative downloaders
Maurice Helwig
Is working for me (version 2024.05.27).
where do I download this version.
I only have version 5.4.3.0
J. P. Gilliver
2024-06-30 23:34:10 UTC
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In message <dd4d2cc2-6db3-47bf-b7aa-***@aussiebroadband.com.au>
at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 06:15:52, Maurice Helwig
Post by Maurice Helwig
Post by J. P. Gilliver
Post by Maurice Helwig
Youtubedownloader -- found here
https://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/download.html
Does not seem to be working now.
Has anyone else had this problem. I am using Win 11 pro.
Any other alternative downloaders
Maurice Helwig
Is working for me (version 2024.05.27).
where do I download this version.
I only have version 5.4.3.0
That doesn't look like a yt-dlp version number. Open a command window in
the directory (folder) in which you have yt-dlp.exe, and type

yt-dlp --version

(that's _two_ hyphens). When I do that on my system, I get

2024.05.27

If you don't, type

yt-dlp -U

(capital U) and you should get a message that it has updated, as long as
the directory (folder) is one that has no spaces in its path. (I get

Latest version: ***@2024.05.27 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date (***@2024.05.27 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)

since mine is already up to date.)

If your youtube downloader is _not_ based on yt-dlp.exe, I don't know
where you get the update. (I would switch to yt-dlp if your existing one
isn't working: I used yt-dlp several times yesterday and it worked
fine.)
--
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When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?
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2024-07-01 03:28:09 UTC
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Post by J. P. Gilliver
at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 06:15:52, Maurice Helwig
Post by Maurice Helwig
Post by J. P. Gilliver
Post by Maurice Helwig
Youtubedownloader -- found here
https://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/download.html
Does not seem to be working now.
Has anyone else had this problem. I am using Win 11 pro.
Any other alternative downloaders
Maurice Helwig
Is working for me (version 2024.05.27).
where do I download this version.
I only have version 5.4.3.0
That doesn't look like a yt-dlp version number. Open a command window in
the directory (folder) in which you have yt-dlp.exe, and type
yt-dlp --version
(that's _two_ hyphens). When I do that on my system, I get
2024.05.27
If you don't, type
yt-dlp -U
(capital U) and you should get a message that it has updated, as long as
the directory (folder) is one that has no spaces in its path. (I get
since mine is already up to date.)
If your youtube downloader is _not_ based on yt-dlp.exe, I don't know
where you get the update. (I would switch to yt-dlp if your existing one
isn't working: I used yt-dlp several times yesterday and it worked
fine.)
I spent a few bucks and bought WonderFox Video Converter. One of the
utilities in that is a downloader that they seem to keep updated to
deal with Youtube and others screwing with the stream. There is also a
screen capture mode that supposedly records whatever you see and hear.
I haven't really played with it tho.

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