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It's a pity it's now hard to find an instance which allows downloads, it was nice to be able to grab things on mobile.

kevinlinxc 3y ago
I use side-loaded 4K Video Downloader: https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloaderandroid-41 https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloaderandroid-4.... Not a regular viewing client though.
- zolbrek 3y ago
  This looks promising, thank you. edit: If I end up trying this out it will have to be on a separate user profile because of the permissions.
  - boneitis 3y ago
    Are you guys not super sketched out by that website? Self-hosted (and unavailable on f-droid) download (why not just use NewPipe at this point?), vague About Us page, duplicated and almost certainly fake "positive reviews" left by different outlets, etc. Personally, i just install termux and yt-dlp. Admittedly, i am on a rooted device, but i think some additional tooling is available to give termux access to the shared user storage area.
    - zolbrek 3y ago
      I got sketched out when I took a closer look at it. I forgot NewPipe existed to be quite frank, it makes much more sense for me to use it instead of the linked app.
bitwize 3y ago
NewPipe still works.
unixfox 3y ago
Because bandwidth is not cheap and there are better tools for downloading. Either youtube-dl or newpipe.
- RockRobotRock 3y ago
  Little aside, it’s yt-dlp now. It’s still awesome.
  - shiroiuma 3y ago
    Another aside: youtube-dl still exists, since yt-dlp was forked from it. youtube-dl isn't that awesome, so you should use yt-dlp. It's similar to OpenOffice.org vs. LibreOffice or XFree86 vs X.org: the old one is still there, but it sucks.
lazycouchpotato 3y ago
NewPipe works perfectly fine for downloading videos. https://newpipe.net/ https://newpipe.net/ It doesn't seem to do 4K video on my Pixel 6a - I'm only getting up to 1080p downloads.
toni 3y ago
On Android, you can use Seal[1] to download YT videos locally. It also supports many other sites. [1] https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal

I use side-loaded 4K Video Downloader: https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloaderandroid-41 https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloaderandroid-4.... Not a regular viewing client though.

zolbrek 3y ago
This looks promising, thank you. edit: If I end up trying this out it will have to be on a separate user profile because of the permissions.
- boneitis 3y ago
  Are you guys not super sketched out by that website? Self-hosted (and unavailable on f-droid) download (why not just use NewPipe at this point?), vague About Us page, duplicated and almost certainly fake "positive reviews" left by different outlets, etc. Personally, i just install termux and yt-dlp. Admittedly, i am on a rooted device, but i think some additional tooling is available to give termux access to the shared user storage area.
  - zolbrek 3y ago
    I got sketched out when I took a closer look at it. I forgot NewPipe existed to be quite frank, it makes much more sense for me to use it instead of the linked app.

bitwize 3y ago

NewPipe still works.

unixfox 3y ago

Because bandwidth is not cheap and there are better tools for downloading. Either youtube-dl or newpipe.

RockRobotRock 3y ago
Little aside, it’s yt-dlp now. It’s still awesome.
- shiroiuma 3y ago
  Another aside: youtube-dl still exists, since yt-dlp was forked from it. youtube-dl isn't that awesome, so you should use yt-dlp. It's similar to OpenOffice.org vs. LibreOffice or XFree86 vs X.org: the old one is still there, but it sucks.

lazycouchpotato 3y ago

NewPipe works perfectly fine for downloading videos. https://newpipe.net/ https://newpipe.net/ It doesn't seem to do 4K video on my Pixel 6a - I'm only getting up to 1080p downloads.

toni 3y ago

On Android, you can use Seal[1] to download YT videos locally. It also supports many other sites. [1] https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal