Wat is your favourite video downloader software?

[Deleted User]

I'm looking for software to download videos from streaming websites online. In my recent experience with this software what works one week might not work the next. It costs time to download new Firefox extensions and test them out until I find one that works. Mainly I want to download from the websites YouTube and Bilibili (a Chinese website). Ideally the software would be free but I'm prepared to pay for something that works provided it will continue to be supported for the foreseeable future. The software doesn't have to convert the .flv file into something else, just download the video.

 

[tastymeatball]

Did you try this add on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/download-flash-and-video/ ?
The only drawback I found that it can't download 1080p videos and higher

 

[MockyLock]

Try https://www.4kdownload.com/fr/products/product-videodownloader
Else, you have this link :
https://www.tubeoffline.com/
This last one can do many sites.

 

[Deleted User]

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[Clydefrosch]

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

this has been working for almost anything and they did improve in recent years.

 

[Subtle Demise]

Jdownloader works well too. It's a desktop program, but you can copy and paste multiple URLs to batch download many files at once. It also works well for file-sharing sites like mediafire and even the shadier ones. You don't even have to actually visit the site. Most times it's able to download the captcha for you to fill out within the program.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

+1 for Jdownloader, I use it when I download pretty much anything on a video/filesharing site, easily one of the best download managers around if you like a lot of control over your downloads.

 

[McWhiters9511]

just use pirate bay lol

 

[Chary]

Jdownloader or YouTube-DL. Youtubedl even has a GUI if using a command prompt is too hard.

 

[MasterJ360]

I use Internet Download Manager [IDM] for lazy video stream downloads since you'll see the "download video" button hovering on top of the stream so just a simple click and it downloads.
JD comes in handy when IDM can't download certain streams aswell

 

[hellrokr]

IDM. Internet download manager. nothing beats it. What an app!

 

[leon315]

EXISTS jdownloader for android phones?

 

[SomeGamer]

EXISTS jdownloader for android phones?

Hands down the best YT downloader for Android phones:
http://dentex.github.io/apps/youtubedownloader/
(Or https://newpipe.schabi.org/ if you want a complete YT client as well.)

 

[leon315]

Hands down the best YT downloader for Android phones:
http://dentex.github.io/apps/youtubedownloader/
(Or https://newpipe.schabi.org/ if you want a complete YT client as well.)

well thanks but i don't need to download video from YT, but i need one to download videos from other videohosting sites. does this APP work on other sites too?

 

[Deleted User]

Use youtube-dl. Simple, free (as in freedom), and works*.

* When it stops working, simply updatig the program fixes it most of the time.

I'd also like to add that if you use Android and have Termux on your phone, you can set up a script to download YouTube videos straight onto your phone using youtube-dl.

Here's a link showing how to do it for anyone interested.

 

[RustInPeace]

Internet Download Manager.

 

[the_randomizer]

just use pirate bay lol

Nah, some ISPs will get you for that, plus torrents are overrated lol.

 

[dAVID_]

Nah, some ISPs will get you for that, plus torrents are overrated lol.

what i like about using torrents is that you dont have to skim through dozens of ads and pop-ups on regular sites to download the files.
however you must be very careful, trojan horses, adware, miners, run wild in torrent sites.

 

[the_randomizer]

what i like about using torrents is that you dont have to skim through dozens of ads and pop-ups on regular sites to download the files.
however you must be very careful, trojan horses, adware, miners, run wild in torrent sites.

And I can't trust torrents because of that reason.

 

[dAVID_]

And I can't trust torrents because of that reason.

just use common sense, opt for downloading torrents with a good amount of seeders and positive comments.