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Utubster downloads YTB playlists, MP4 videos and MP3s from almost any website

34 points by URfejk 6y ago

raspyberr 6y ago
Is this open source? Is this just a youtube-dl wrapper? Is this post just an advertisement? "Utubster video downloader supports downloading and converting to MP4 video and MP3 audio from all the known online video services including..." I doubt it.
- rozab 6y ago
  Looks like it's just meant to highlight the futile nature of attempting to take down tools like youtube-dl. Although that doesn't quite work, since it almost certainly uses youtube-dl under the hood
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  - jwilk 6y ago
    Yeah, this smells very much like youtube-dl: $ strings -e l Utubster.exe | grep best bestaudio/best bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=1080]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=1080] bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=480]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=480] bestvideo+bestaudio/best
- JdeBP 6y ago
  It's unlikely to be a youtube-dl wrapper. A quick search of GitHub reveals a wide range of YouTube downloaders, written in languages from C# to Java and wholly independent of youtube-dl. * https://github.com/dqn/youtubedl https://github.com/dqn/youtubedl That said, many of them are clearly hobby projects, badly documented in the main and not at all polished. Whereas this is apparently a commercial closed-source tool with no visible means of income. The fact that Utubster's screenshots show an unadvertised "system repair" program forming part of the supposed video downloader does not inspire confidence.
morceauxdebois 6y ago
You have to appreciate all the mp3download sites for taking the heat from youtube-dl (at least until recently it seems)
sloshnmosh 6y ago
I’ve been able to download videos and music files by finding the full direct links to the source by using my web browsers developer tools. Does this no longer work on YouTube?
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- dxxvi 6y ago
  It's not that simple for me. If you can show us how to do that (suppose that your audience knows how to use your web browser developer tools, ffmpeg, curl, ...) for a few websites like youtube, udemy, nbcnews.com, ... that will be grateful.
- lini 6y ago
  Many streaming services will split the media file into segments and send only the first few chunks to the browser, to limit bandwidth usage on longer media and block techniques like the one you described. Recently I used youtube-dl to get a zoom recording from Vimeo and remember that it was split in ~35 parts.
arsome 6y ago
What's the relevance to HN here? Yes, youtube-dl got whacked from github, but I doubt the youtube-dl users - especially on this site - want to replace it with a closed source, Windows-only, proprietary GUI tool with no reputation at all.

34 points by URfejk 6y ago

Is this open source? Is this just a youtube-dl wrapper? Is this post just an advertisement? "Utubster video downloader supports downloading and converting to MP4 video and MP3 audio from all the known online video services including..." I doubt it.

rozab 6y ago
Looks like it's just meant to highlight the futile nature of attempting to take down tools like youtube-dl. Although that doesn't quite work, since it almost certainly uses youtube-dl under the hood
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- jwilk 6y ago
  Yeah, this smells very much like youtube-dl: $ strings -e l Utubster.exe | grep best bestaudio/best bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=1080]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=1080] bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=480]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=480] bestvideo+bestaudio/best
JdeBP 6y ago
It's unlikely to be a youtube-dl wrapper. A quick search of GitHub reveals a wide range of YouTube downloaders, written in languages from C# to Java and wholly independent of youtube-dl. * https://github.com/dqn/youtubedl https://github.com/dqn/youtubedl That said, many of them are clearly hobby projects, badly documented in the main and not at all polished. Whereas this is apparently a commercial closed-source tool with no visible means of income. The fact that Utubster's screenshots show an unadvertised "system repair" program forming part of the supposed video downloader does not inspire confidence.

morceauxdebois 6y ago

You have to appreciate all the mp3download sites for taking the heat from youtube-dl (at least until recently it seems)

sloshnmosh 6y ago

I’ve been able to download videos and music files by finding the full direct links to the source by using my web browsers developer tools. Does this no longer work on YouTube?

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dxxvi 6y ago
It's not that simple for me. If you can show us how to do that (suppose that your audience knows how to use your web browser developer tools, ffmpeg, curl, ...) for a few websites like youtube, udemy, nbcnews.com, ... that will be grateful.
lini 6y ago
Many streaming services will split the media file into segments and send only the first few chunks to the browser, to limit bandwidth usage on longer media and block techniques like the one you described. Recently I used youtube-dl to get a zoom recording from Vimeo and remember that it was split in ~35 parts.

arsome 6y ago

What's the relevance to HN here? Yes, youtube-dl got whacked from github, but I doubt the youtube-dl users - especially on this site - want to replace it with a closed source, Windows-only, proprietary GUI tool with no reputation at all.