Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin (I guess they
call them extensions now) for FireFox that doesn't want everything you
own?

I mean.. a quick search for a downloader plugin produces several popular
ones come highly "Recommended".

But some of those announce that they need access to all your browser
history, mail contacts, cookies, etc.

Isn't there a good one that just gets the download done and leaves you
alone?


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Re: YT downloader - suggestions?
By: August Abolins to All on Tue Apr 28 2020 22:59:00

Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin (I guess
they call them extensions now) for FireFox that doesn't want
everything you own?

no... why when there are tools like youtube-dl and similar that are available standalone?


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August Abolins wrote to All <=-

Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin (I guess
they call them extensions now) for FireFox that doesn't want everything you own?

I mean.. a quick search for a downloader plugin produces several
popular ones come highly "Recommended".

But some of those announce that they need access to all your browser history, mail contacts, cookies, etc.

Isn't there a good one that just gets the download done and leaves you alone?

I don't use plugins, but a commandline tool called youtube-dl

On my tablet I use newpipe

On the PC I use youtube browser for smplayer

I stay away from youtube on the browser.


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Re: YT downloader - suggestions?
By: August Abolins to All on Tue Apr 28 2020 10:59 pm

Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin (I guess they call them extensions now) for FireFox that doesn't want everything you
own?

I mean.. a quick search for a downloader plugin produces several popular ones come highly "Recommended".

But some of those announce that they need access to all your browser history, mail contacts, cookies, etc.

Isn't there a good one that just gets the download done and leaves you alone?

I use 4K Video Downloader. It's a GUI app, not a plugin. Works great.

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On 29/04/2020 11:39 p.m., Rob Swindell : August Abolins wrote:

Isn't there a good one that just gets the download done and leaves you alone?

I use 4K Video Downloader. It's a GUI app, not a plugin. Works great.

I like that one very much, so far. Thanks!




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On 29/04/2020 9:34 a.m., mark lewis : August Abolins wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin (I
guess they call them extensions now) for FireFox that doesn't
want everything you own?

no... why when there are tools like youtube-dl and similar that
are available standalone?

I am impressed with the landing page https://youtube-dl.org/, and the Documentation/user-help page. Very good description of usage with some examples.

I'm not particularly excited in operating in command-mode while I'm residing in a GUI like the YT page, but program looks like a good no nonsense no tracking no
ads experience.

Thanks for the heads-up on that one.



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** On Thursday 30.04.20 - 19:59, August Abolins wrote to mark lewis:

On 29/04/2020 9:34 a.m., mark lewis : August Abolins wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin..

no... why when there are tools like youtube-dl and similar that
are available standalone?

Thanks for the heads-up on that one.

youtube-dl works really well on my XP pc.

BTW.. The -F option is very handy, but it doesn't seem to report the
actual filesize of the available files. :(



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Re: YT downloader - suggestions?
By: August Abolins to mark lewis on Sun May 03 2020 12:20:00

youtube-dl works really well on my XP pc.

excellent!

BTW.. The -F option is very handy, but it doesn't seem to report
the actual filesize of the available files. :(

i don't know... most of what i've done has been simply ripping to mp3 and not very much of that... it was one of the only tools i found to do this when i needed to recover some stuff that i had published on an account i've misplaced the credentials for...


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Hello mark!

** On Sunday 03.05.20 - 12:31, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:

BTW.. The -F option is very handy, but it doesn't seem to report
the actual filesize of the available files. :(

i don't know... most of what i've done has been simply ripping to mp3 and
not very much of that...

Were you getting anything better than 128Kbps in quality?

Prior to joining Spotify, I extracted the audio from the YT videos I was interested in carrying around with me or for producing an mp3/cd for the
car. The audio sound always seemed subpar.

it was one of the only tools i found to do this
when i needed to recover some stuff that i had published on an account
i've misplaced the credentials for...

The variety of --options for youtube-dl are absolutely amazing and well thought out. I can see the convenience of pulling in a playlist based on date criteria to get get just the videos one has missed, for example.


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Re: YT downloader - suggestions?
By: August Abolins to mark lewis on Sun May 03 2020 13:06:00

BTW.. The -F option is very handy, but it doesn't seem to report
the actual filesize of the available files. :(

i don't know... most of what i've done has been simply ripping to
mp3 and not very much of that...

Were you getting anything better than 128Kbps in quality?

yeah, i believe so... i forget the option i used but i found it after several attempts...


BTW: can you adjust your quoting thing so that there's a space after the initials and greater than sign? see above, where the quoted text is flush up against the symbol... i've been manually adding the spaces but it is getting a bit meh...


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