Does The Youtube downloader work?

BTW this reminds me of excellent https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

xp84 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Fun story: I had the fun experience of collaborating on an integration with an engineer at JP Morgan Chase who introduced me to this tool, which they use, self-hosted of course, as an alternative to having engineers just pasting things into random online tools that come up when you google “base64 decode” etc.

From our whole interaction, I came away admiring the skill and professionalism of their team.

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andreisergo 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ah it's buggy, youtube really doesn't like their videos being downloaded. Built it with yt-dlp library. Continuously tweaking it

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alkh 4 days ago | parent [-]

As a heads up, you might soon need a JS runtime to make it work[1]. You might have to tweak even more (:

[1]https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404

	▲	andreisergo 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oh boy, fun stuff. Thanks for the heads up

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Imustaskforhelp 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

there is also uh, god, I always forget its name whenever I want to use it....

AHHHHH YESS, I FINALLY REMEMBERED IT AFTER 5 minutes of thinking.

https://cobalt.tools

This has definitely helped me a lot in a lot of times when I didn't have my pc or just in general too, their api was also pretty hackable too actually and they support more than youtube

Btw did I mention its open source?

Tho the last time I did try to install something from cobalt.tools it wasn't working

One time, I remember that a group of girls in my previous school were downloading yt vids on school lab via some sketchy website and I said to them to use cobalt.tools while I was walking & I definitely farmed some aura too I suppose which I am sure literally everyone involved in the scene have forgotten except me who is recalling it right now.

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jerbear4328 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

The instance https://cobalt.meowing.de is currently working for YouTube, which is very useful

	▲	Imustaskforhelp 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		thanks, didn't knew but I guess, its great! Another thing I like about cobalt is the api, I had cooked something that could be a bang in duckduckgo of sorts that would download the video from the api of cobalt but I just couldn't deliver the bang and also I needed some custom facing thing in the background but now I think that I can have something like cloudflare. Imagine having this thing in browser where !yt-dlp <youtube video> just downloads it or refers us to a working cobalt instance y'know. I might build something like this for cf workers or smth. What are your thoughts?

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