https://cobolt.tools is free, open source, and more feature complete. It’s my go-to and I think it’s awesome.
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#12https://cobolt.tools is free, open source, and more feature complete. It’s my go-to and I think it’s awesome.
Typoed link, the correct one is https://cobalt.tools
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#13just put yt-dlp on your path and you can do this without sharing your data with some weird SEO garbager it's so lamentable that putting a binary on your path is too technical for most people these days as the user experience is so so much better than any other option, anytime I want to share a short form video i can Ctrl + L -> Ctrl + C to get the link, Ctrl + R to summon a command prompt, type `ytdl` Shift + Insert…
I agree with you that yt-dlp is the most practical way to do this stuff, but that simply isn't clear to most folks.
Pretend you don't know how to download videos, the first thing you do is google "how to download youtube videos". The result? A whole lot of bad advice-- sketchy websites, clickbait videos, advice to pay for youtube premium, warnings that it's illegal and that google can cut off your access, vlc player can do it apparently, and then finally inside a reddit thread someone writes "yt-dlp is the best" (nothing else, no link). One would think that google itself has an interest in keeping this information away from people :-).
I can't even remember how I first found it myself!
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#15just put yt-dlp on your path and you can do this without sharing your data with some weird SEO garbager it's so lamentable that putting a binary on your path is too technical for most people these days as the user experience is so so much better than any other option, anytime I want to share a short form video i can Ctrl + L -> Ctrl + C to get the link, Ctrl + R to summon a command prompt, type `ytdl` Shift + Insert…
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#16https://cobolt.tools is free, open source, and more feature complete. It’s my go-to and I think it’s awesome.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support Instagram stories, which is the type of media I find myself wanting to save the most.
OP: in case you weren't aware, websites that do this have been facing legal challenges recently, with some being shut down. I suspect that's part of the reason there's room in the market for yours... while it lasts :(
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#17My advice – it is perfectly fine to do this as a random fun side project with no real expectations, but if you are a solo founder looking for product market fit for a serious product I don't understand the rationale behind going on all on something that is fundamentally illegal and/or against the ToS of the services you are relying on. You will be cut off at moment's notice if your work actually does turn out to be popular. What are you expecting here exactly? To start a company? To make profits?
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#18just put yt-dlp on your path and you can do this without sharing your data with some weird SEO garbager it's so lamentable that putting a binary on your path is too technical for most people these days as the user experience is so so much better than any other option, anytime I want to share a short form video i can Ctrl + L -> Ctrl + C to get the link, Ctrl + R to summon a command prompt, type `ytdl` Shift + Insert…
I previously used yt-dl, then yt-dlp. So for it works nice.
But, CLI only can be intimidating for non-tech users. Let's say there are multiple high resolutions of a video: 1280x720, 1920x1080, 2650x1440, 3840x2160 etc. By default, yt-dlp will fetch the highest one, which is 3840x2160. I want 1920x1080 instead. What I do is fetch the 1920x1080 video and the highest quality audio, then join those with ffmpeg.
A GUI to easily do that is definitely a nice addition.
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#19just put yt-dlp on your path and you can do this without sharing your data with some weird SEO garbager it's so lamentable that putting a binary on your path is too technical for most people these days as the user experience is so so much better than any other option, anytime I want to share a short form video i can Ctrl + L -> Ctrl + C to get the link, Ctrl + R to summon a command prompt, type `ytdl` Shift + Insert…
I previously used yt-dl, then yt-dlp. So for it works nice. But, CLI only can be intimidating for non-tech users. Let's say there are multiple high resolutions of a video: 1280x720, 1920x1080, 2650x1440, 3840x2160 etc. By default, yt-dlp will fetch the highest one, which is 3840x2160. I want 1920x1080 instead. What I do is fetch the 1920x1080 video and the highest quality audio, then join those with ffmpeg. A GUI to…
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#20https://cobolt.tools is free, open source, and more feature complete. It’s my go-to and I think it’s awesome.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support Instagram stories, which is the type of media I find myself wanting to save the most. OP: in case you weren't aware, websites that do this have been facing legal challenges recently, with some being shut down. I suspect that's part of the reason there's room in the market for yours... while it lasts :(
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t — I remember seeing a post on Cobalt’s Twitter saying they fixed Instagram support, and then just a few hours later a post saying it broke again…