Downloading Youtube videos

[Rembrandt]

i just use stasher.

Stacher*, can handle batch downloading with ease and is fairly customizable. Used it to save an entire YT channel and it worked.

https://stacher.io/

 

[William F. Clinton]

If anyone's too retarded to use yt-dlp (like myself), I recommend a front-end called Tartube. Makes it real easy to download and organize videos in bulk.

 

[soup peddler]

Freetube can download videos for you.

Seconding this, it fixes every single youtube problem

 

[Pargon]

Has there been any workaround discovered to YT’s mandated signin to view age-restricted vids? None of the methods I’ve looked at could bypass it.

 

[Vecr]

Has there been any workaround discovered to YT’s mandated signin to view age-restricted vids? None of the methods I’ve looked at could bypass it.

I haven't figured anything out either. Yt-dlp gives a guide for dowloading with exported cookies, but I'm not going to do that.

 

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I haven't figured anything out either. Yt-dlp gives a guide for dowloading with exported cookies, but I'm not going to do that.

You don't need to export cookies, that's gay.

You can just use the --cookies-from-browser command line option, i.e.
--cookies-from-browser firefox
etc.

This even supports both separate profiles, if you're using anything but a single default profile (unlikely) and even Firefox's 'containers' feature.

That means it's easy, if you're worried about Google disabling your personal Gmail account for using it with YT-DLP (something I have never heard of occurring) to set it up with an arbitrary profile or container (with Firefox) set against a burner Google account, which should eliminate any such possibility.