It must be such a small percentage point of people who use this service, why bother??
An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
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Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
tl;dr use the damn youtube-dl. You still get your videos downloaded, you don't spam people who is discussing in the same thread, and Reddit "gods" can't do anything to block you. If you don't want to download a python script to your machine (why?), then use any of the million youtube-dl-wrapping websites online or one of the hundred browser extensions. I'm 99% sure "SaveVideo" is just wrapping youtube-dl anyway.
Wait, youtube-dl works with Reddit/imgur/redgifs hosted videos? I thought it was for, y'know, YouTube.
It did start with just youtube, yes. But in today's day and age it supports a large amount of sites. [1]
[1]: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#13These "bots" are spam, pure and simple. By forcing users to visibly name the "service" they want to use in public discussion threads, and the service visibly answering on the same thread, they are basically forcing the users themselves to advertise the service. But it's still spam. You get tens of mentions of the service on each reddit thread. It would be terribly simple and probably even more userfriendly to just pr…
If users continuously spam "SaveVideo" on every thread, what Reddit should've done is implement a "download video" button.
Yes, I know you're a troll. Just saying.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
tl;dr use the damn youtube-dl. You still get your videos downloaded, you don't spam people who is discussing in the same thread, and Reddit "gods" can't do anything to block you. If you don't want to download a python script to your machine (why?), then use any of the million youtube-dl-wrapping websites online or one of the hundred browser extensions. I'm 99% sure "SaveVideo" is just wrapping youtube-dl anyway.
Wait, youtube-dl works with Reddit/imgur/redgifs hosted videos? I thought it was for, y'know, YouTube.
I believe it was originally just youtube, but it has support for a whole lot of services now including reddit, twitter, and much more.
Looking at the file names here should give you a pretty good idea of what is supported. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
tl;dr use the damn youtube-dl. You still get your videos downloaded, you don't spam people who is discussing in the same thread, and Reddit "gods" can't do anything to block you. If you don't want to download a python script to your machine (why?), then use any of the million youtube-dl-wrapping websites online or one of the hundred browser extensions. I'm 99% sure "SaveVideo" is just wrapping youtube-dl anyway.
Wait, youtube-dl works with Reddit/imgur/redgifs hosted videos? I thought it was for, y'know, YouTube.
Yes.
This is precisely what I am complaining about when I said that the SaveVideo spam means every other service that does not spam in the same way gets relegated to obscurity. Practically every downloader program/extension/service works with these videos...
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#16They* want to be the only record keepers, and it scares me. Now when they remove a video for "violating content guidelines" (or all the videos of a banned account), it will be as if it never existed. *Nearly every major video host deliberately makes saving videos difficult.
>Now when they remove a video for "violating content guidelines"
This is why I'm keeping an offline digital music collection for the first time in over a decade, it's because I'm sick of this kind of behaviour from record labels. Their attitudes of deleting things on a whim as though they never existed pissed me off to the point I don't see streaming services as a viable means of keeping my music any more.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you work for reddit you should disclose that.
tl;dr use the damn youtube-dl. You still get your videos downloaded, you don't spam people who is discussing in the same thread, and Reddit "gods" can't do anything to block you. If you don't want to download a python script to your machine (why?), then use any of the million youtube-dl-wrapping websites online or one of the hundred browser extensions. I'm 99% sure "SaveVideo" is just wrapping youtube-dl anyway.
Because my machine is a phone
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#18These "bots" are spam, pure and simple. By forcing users to visibly name the "service" they want to use in public discussion threads, and the service visibly answering on the same thread, they are basically forcing the users themselves to advertise the service. But it's still spam. You get tens of mentions of the service on each reddit thread. It would be terribly simple and probably even more userfriendly to just pr…
Doesn't the bot respond with a link to the saved video, which other users can then download without having to call the bot again? Whenever I've seen that bot or similar ones in a thread, the top one gets upvoted and duplicates get downvoted to the point of being hidden. This seems like the upvote/downvote system working as intended.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#19These "bots" are spam, pure and simple. By forcing users to visibly name the "service" they want to use in public discussion threads, and the service visibly answering on the same thread, they are basically forcing the users themselves to advertise the service. But it's still spam. You get tens of mentions of the service on each reddit thread. It would be terribly simple and probably even more userfriendly to just pr…
Doesn't the bot respond with a link to the saved video, which other users can then download without having to call the bot again? Whenever I've seen that bot or similar ones in a thread, the top one gets upvoted and duplicates get downvoted to the point of being hidden. This seems like the upvote/downvote system working as intended.
No, not really. Open _any_ video thread from the frontpage from yesterday and you will find multiple references to savevideo, getvideobot, downloadvideo, etc. All of them are different, competing bots participating in this spam race.
Not to mention websites where there is no karma or equivalent (e.g. Twitter) and you just can't skip the spam to threadunroller or videodownloader or whatever.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
tl;dr use the damn youtube-dl. You still get your videos downloaded, you don't spam people who is discussing in the same thread, and Reddit "gods" can't do anything to block you. If you don't want to download a python script to your machine (why?), then use any of the million youtube-dl-wrapping websites online or one of the hundred browser extensions. I'm 99% sure "SaveVideo" is just wrapping youtube-dl anyway.
Because my machine is a phone
It's a bit of hassle but youtube-dl runs on Termux for Android.