Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
on Windows7-SP1.
Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).

Both add-ons fail now.

How can I "repair" this?
Or is there another download add-on or program?

Rink

On 6/18/23 5:31 PM, Rink wrote:
> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
> on Windows7-SP1.
> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>
> Both add-ons fail now.
>
> How can I "repair" this?
> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>
> Rink
try this one

Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express

<https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/113.0.2/Linux/en-US/add-on-badges?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=promoted-addon-badge>
<https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/113.0.2/Linux/en-US/extensions-pb>
No# 1 Rated Youtube Video Downloader for firefox web-browser with MP3
and Full-HD downloads. Instant, one-click Youtube video downloader with
high-quality 256Kbps/128Kbps MP3 and Full-HD video downloading options.
The #1 rated "Youtube Video Downloader" with 1080p Full-HD and 256Kbps
MP3 download capability, one of the oldest Youtube grabber addon here on
Mozilla addon store with fast and easy 1-Click downloads from Youtube
website without loading any external executable.

Major Features :
1) Offers 1080p Full-HD downloads (recent YouTube changes break most
other downloaders that attempt this)
2) Single-click 256kbps HQ MP3 downloads
3) Simple, minimalist download button
4) Works well with the new YouTube design

On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:31:50 +0200, Rink
<rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:

>Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
>I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
>on Windows7-SP1.
>Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>
>Both add-ons fail now.
>
>How can I "repair" this?
>Or is there another download add-on or program?
>
>Rink

https://www.3dyd.com/

On 6/19/23 00:31, Rink wrote:
> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
> on Windows7-SP1.
> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>
> Both add-ons fail now.
>
> How can I "repair" this?
> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>
> Rink
yt-dlp is the program to use to download youtube videos, or any other
videos from most other sites. Many GUI program use it as the underline
software to download. This is the link to the latest release
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2023.03.04

Op 18-6-2023 om 23:44 schreef Nic:
> On 6/18/23 5:31 PM, Rink wrote:
>> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
>> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
>> on Windows7-SP1.
>> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>>
>> Both add-ons fail now.
>>
>> How can I "repair" this?
>> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>>
>> Rink
> try this one
>
>
>  Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express

I tried this one earlier this evening. But it does not come further than
"making a download link". Seen that for minutes (longer than the you
tube video).

>
> <https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/113.0.2/Linux/en-US/add-on-badges?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=promoted-addon-badge>
> <https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/113.0.2/Linux/en-US/extensions-pb>

Linux?
I have Windows7.

Your links go to:
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-badges?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=promoted-addon-badge&as=u>

and
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extensions-private-browsing?as=u&utm_source=inproduct>

I do not understand the relation of these pages with my question.
Probably because I do not understand a lot of software issues.

Rink

> No# 1 Rated Youtube Video Downloader for firefox web-browser with MP3
> and Full-HD downloads. Instant, one-click Youtube video downloader with
> high-quality 256Kbps/128Kbps MP3 and Full-HD video downloading options.
> The #1 rated "Youtube Video Downloader" with 1080p Full-HD and 256Kbps
> MP3 download capability, one of the oldest Youtube grabber addon here on
> Mozilla addon store with fast and easy 1-Click downloads from Youtube
> website without loading any external executable.
>
> Major Features :
> 1) Offers 1080p Full-HD downloads (recent YouTube changes break most
> other downloaders that attempt this)
> 2) Single-click 256kbps HQ MP3 downloads
> 3) Simple, minimalist download button
> 4) Works well with the new YouTube design

In article <u6nt47$1osu2$1@dont-email.me>, rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl (Rink)
wrote:

> *From:* Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl>
> *Date:* Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:31:50 +0200
>
> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
> on Windows7-SP1.
> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>
> Both add-ons fail now.
>
> How can I "repair" this?
> Or is there another download add-on or program?

I've been using the free version of 4K Video Downloader under 32-bit Windows 7 for
years now. It's still being regularly updated and shows a list of different MP4
formats (1080p down to 240p for instance) that you can download when you paste the
YT link into it:
https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloader-34
(Checked this evening and it's still working fine.)

--
Regards
John

In alt.comp.software.firefox Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:
> How can I "repair" this?
> Or is there another download add-on or program?

I use youtube-dl. The latest official release is broken now, but
these daily builds work:
https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/

But for people who don't like the command-line, I'd recommend
Invidious, which I sometimes use to browse through all videos from
a particular YouTube account since YouTube started requiring their
Javascript to be enabled in order to use their website directly.

Select a working "instance" from this page, then you can visit
corresponding pages by replacing the www.youtube.com or whatever
YouTube domain name is in the video's URL with that of the instance
you choose. Or just search and find videos via the Invidious
interface in the first place.
https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

--
__ __
#_ < |\| |< _#

Rink wrote:
> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
> on Windows7-SP1.
> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>
> Both add-ons fail now.
>
> How can I "repair" this?
> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>
> Rink

Several years ago I got tired of messing with ever changing formats and
software so I started using online downloaders.
Currently this one:
https://yt5s.com/en169

In message <u6okg1$1vp7q$1@dont-email.me> at Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:10:19,
Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> writes
[]
>Several years ago I got tired of messing with ever changing formats and
>software so I started using online downloaders.
>Currently this one:
>https://yt5s.com/en169

I (Windows 7) have no trouble using yt-dlp - my fingers are so fast at
it (and I have pinned a shortcut to a command window in the folder I
keep for it, though I usually leave that open anyway) that I suspect I'd
be slower with a gui or online one. (You can rename it from yt-dlp.exe
to whatever you like - I use y.exe, so I only have to type y space
<paste>.) Whenever it doesn't work, I just do y -U, and it updates
itself (it keeps the short name!). [I just tried, but it said it was up
to date anyway.]

I do use one online downloader: https://twittervideodownloader.com/, for
- well, guess.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The thing about smut is it harms no one and it's rarely cruel. Besides, it's a
gleeful rejection of the dreary and the "correct".
- Alison Graham, RT 2014/10/25-31

On 6/18/2023 6:07 PM, John K.Eason wrote:
> In article <u6nt47$1osu2$1@dont-email.me>, rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl (Rink)
> wrote:
>
>> *From:* Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl>
>> *Date:* Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:31:50 +0200
>>
>> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
>> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
>> on Windows7-SP1.
>> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>>
>> Both add-ons fail now.
>>
>> How can I "repair" this?
>> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>
> I've been using the free version of 4K Video Downloader under 32-bit Windows 7 for
> years now. It's still being regularly updated and shows a list of different MP4
> formats (1080p down to 240p for instance) that you can download when you paste the
> YT link into it:
> https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloader-34
> (Checked this evening and it's still working fine.)
>

It's good that you tested that, because it means the OP
is not being blocked on some OS determination.

An example of a browser user-agent, shows the OS the browser is hosted by,
is included in the string. The first example is a Win11. I think "NT 10.0" is used
for both 10 and 11. In the Linux example, the display software is described
and can be X11 or Wayland perhaps.

https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent/

Your User Agent is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.10.2
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0

Previous Windows OS versions included 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3. Vista,W7,W8,W8.1

You can modify the user agent string that Firefox uses. The
preference has been removed from about:config , but you can
put it back

https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/how-to-change-your-user-agent/firefox

general.useragent.override STRING <craft a string like the above in it>

about:config is a bit of a nuisance, since if you delete an item you should
not have, there is no backup or undo in the design.

Other potential tripping hazards, are TLS 1.1,1.2,1.3 for HTTPS transactions.
Firefox has CHACHA20 built-in, so I don't think the browser relies on SCHANNEL.
And the certificate chain -- even though Windows 7 is out of support, there
might still be the possibility of certificate revocation.

Tools : Browser Tools : Browser Console

Paul

On 6/19/23 02:20, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> In alt.comp.software.firefox Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:
>> How can I "repair" this?
>> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>
> I use youtube-dl. The latest official release is broken now, but
> these daily builds work:
> https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/

youtube-dl has been deprecated and is not in active development. I
highly recommend you to switch to the active fork yt-dlp

In article <u6p5ud$21ehu$1@dont-email.me>, nospam@needed.invalid (Paul) wrote:

> *From:* Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
> *Date:* Mon, 19 Jun 2023 05:08:28 -0400
>
> On 6/18/2023 6:07 PM, John K.Eason wrote:
> > In article <u6nt47$1osu2$1@dont-email.me>,
> > rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl (Rink)
> > wrote:
> >
> >> *From:* Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl>
> >> *Date:* Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:31:50 +0200
> >>
> >> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
> >> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
> >> on Windows7-SP1.
> >> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
> >>
> >> Both add-ons fail now.
> >>
> >> How can I "repair" this?
> >> Or is there another download add-on or program?
> >
> > I've been using the free version of 4K Video Downloader under
> > 32-bit Windows 7 for
> > years now. It's still being regularly updated and shows a list of
> > different MP4
> > formats (1080p down to 240p for instance) that you can download
> > when you paste the
> > YT link into it:
> > https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloader-34
> > (Checked this evening and it's still working fine.)
> >
>
> It's good that you tested that, because it means the OP
> is not being blocked on some OS determination.
>
> An example of a browser user-agent, shows the OS the browser is
> hosted by, is included in the string. The first example is a Win11. I
> think "NT 10.0" is used for both 10 and 11. In the Linux example, the
> display software is described and can be X11 or Wayland perhaps.
>
> https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent/
>
> Your User Agent is:
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.10.2
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0
>
> Previous Windows OS versions included 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3.
> Vista,W7,W8,W8.1
>
> You can modify the user agent string that Firefox uses. The
> preference has been removed from about:config , but you can
> put it back
>
>
> https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/how-to-change-your-user-agent
> /firefox
>
> general.useragent.override STRING <craft a string like the
> above in it>
>
> about:config is a bit of a nuisance, since if you delete an item
> you should not have, there is no backup or undo in the design.
>
> Other potential tripping hazards, are TLS 1.1,1.2,1.3 for HTTPS
> transactions.
> Firefox has CHACHA20 built-in, so I don't think the browser relies
> on SCHANNEL.
> And the certificate chain -- even though Windows 7 is out of
> support, there might still be the possibility of certificate revocation.
>
> Tools : Browser Tools : Browser Console

My comment was actually sent from a PC using 64-bit Windows 10 hence the results
you're seeing although YT downloads are done on the W7 PC. I don't use the Win 7 PC
for email.
4K Video Downloader is a dedicated program not a browser addon and is regularly
updated (last one on May 5th) so the browser shouldn't matter.

--
Regards
John

On 6/18/23 17:31, this is what Rink wrote:
> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
> on Windows7-SP1.
> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>
> Both add-ons fail now.
>
> How can I "repair" this?
> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>
> Rink
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube_downloader_webx/
This has been working for me.
--
Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon 5.6.8
Al

On 18-Jun-23 5:31 PM, Rink wrote:
> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
> on Windows7-SP1.
> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>
> Both add-ons fail now.
>
> How can I "repair" this?
> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>
> Rink

Consider using jdownloader. I use the video downloadhelper for some
things, but it does seem to take a very long time to download a youtube
video (and it adds a watermark).

Jdownloader will allow you to download the video, thumbnail, and audio
of any youtube link.

On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:06:57 +0100, J. P. Gilliver
wrote:
> I (Windows 7) have no trouble using yt-dlp - my fingers are so fast at
> it (and I have pinned a shortcut to a command window in the folder I
> keep for it, though I usually leave that open anyway) ...
>

Ditto. I have a couple of aliases for it, so that I
don't have to look up options for my most common
settings. Frex,
ytdmus {url}
downloads just the music, in iTunes-compatible AAC
format, with chapters (if any) as separate files.

--
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA
https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...

Am 18.06.2023 um 23:31 schrieb Rink:
> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
> on Windows7-SP1.
> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>
> Both add-ons fail now.
>
> How can I "repair" this?
> Or is there another download add-on or program?

Try this: https://www.any-video-converter.com/en7/for_video_free/

--
Torsten Villnow

In alt.comp.software.firefox solid hyrax <solidhyrax@420blaze.it> wrote:
> On 6/19/23 02:20, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> In alt.comp.software.firefox Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:
>>> How can I "repair" this?
>>> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>>
>> I use youtube-dl. The latest official release is broken now, but
>> these daily builds work:
>> https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/
>
> youtube-dl has been deprecated and is not in active development.

That is very obviously untrue, just one look at the GitHub page
will show much evidence of active development. Right now it says
the latest changes were made on June 17, 2023.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commits/master

> I highly recommend you to switch to the active fork yt-dlp

The only problem with using youtube-dl is that they haven't had an
official release recently, but that's why I pointed to those
automated releases instead. They still do everything I want, and
work with older versions of Python as well.

--
__ __
#_ < |\| |< _#

On 18/06/2023 23:05, solid hyrax wrote:
> On 6/19/23 00:31, Rink wrote:
>> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
>> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
>> on Windows7-SP1.
>> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>>
>> Both add-ons fail now.
>>
>> How can I "repair" this?
>> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>>
>> Rink
> yt-dlp is the program to use to download youtube videos, or any other
> videos from most other sites. Many GUI program use it as the underline
> software to download. This is the link to the latest release
> https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2023.03.04

+1

It's a little more complicated to use than some fancy plugins etc but it
works well.

First do

yt-dlp -F https://youtu.be/xxxxxxxxxxx

to see what formats are available then once you've chosen what format
you want do something like

yt-dlp -f135+140 https://youtu.be/xxxxxxxxxxx

to fetch the video. In this example 135+140 is the format I chose -
Video type 135 with audio type 140.

The URL you use doesn't have to be a youtu.be one you can use the one
from your browser address bar if you wish too. It's usually more like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxx

To update yt-dlp to the latest version just do:

yt-dlp -U

and it updates itself.

--
Brian Gregory (in England).

On 19/06/2023 23:41, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> The only problem with using youtube-dl is that they haven't had an
> official release recently, but that's why I pointed to those
> automated releases instead. They still do everything I want, and
> work with older versions of Python as well.
>

Then go where the official releases are:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

--
Brian Gregory (in England).

In message <kfd7nbFojmfU1@mid.individual.net> at Tue, 20 Jun 2023
09:52:59, Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> writes
>On 18/06/2023 23:05, solid hyrax wrote:
[]
>> yt-dlp is the program to use to download youtube videos, or any other
>>videos from most other sites. Many GUI program use it as the underline
>>software to download. This is the link to the latest release
>>https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2023.03.04
>
>+1
>
>It's a little more complicated to use than some fancy plugins etc but
>it works well.
>
>First do
>
>yt-dlp -F https://youtu.be/xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>to see what formats are available then once you've chosen what format
>you want do something like
>
>yt-dlp -f135+140 https://youtu.be/xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>to fetch the video. In this example 135+140 is the format I chose -
>Video type 135 with audio type 140.

Although just doing yt-dlp <URL> without specifying a format often
fetches the best available. (And, as I've said before, you can rename
yt-dlp.exe to anything - I use y.exe - to save typing. [I actually keep
e. g. "yt-dlp_86 [2023.03.04].exe" as well whenever I do an upgrade, in
case something breaks, but I don't _use_ that one.]
>
>The URL you use doesn't have to be a youtu.be one you can use the one
>from your browser address bar if you wish too. It's usually more like:
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxx

As solid hyrax said, it works with most webpages that have a video on
them - certainly not just YouTube. I wish they hadn't called it
yt-dl(p), as many people think that means it's only for YT; I guess they
first wrote it for YT, and stuck with the name.
>
>To update yt-dlp to the latest version just do:
>
>yt-dlp -U
>
>and it updates itself.
>
Or in my case, just "y -U"; it is aware of what it's called, and calls
the updated version by the name you've chosen. (Note that the pathname
of where you store it shouldn't have a space in [I have it in
D:\videos\yt-dlp], or the update doesn't work properly. At least, that
was the case with the old yt-dl, and may still be with yt-dlp. The
update worked by making a little batch file [which it deleted when it
was finished], and spaces in the pathnames broke the commands therein.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Less rules means fewer grammar? - Marjorie in UMRA, 2014-1-28 13:14

On 20 Jun 2023 08:41:15 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> In alt.comp.software.firefox solid hyrax <solidhyrax@420blaze.it> wrote:
> > On 6/19/23 02:20, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> >> In alt.comp.software.firefox Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:
> >>> How can I "repair" this?
> >>> Or is there another download add-on or program?
> >>
> >> I use youtube-dl. The latest official release is broken now, but
> >> these daily builds work:
> >> https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/
> >
> > youtube-dl has been deprecated and is not in active development.
>
> That is very obviously untrue, just one look at the GitHub page
> will show much evidence of active development. Right now it says
> the latest changes were made on June 17, 2023.
>
> https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commits/master

Seems to me like a distinction without a difference. If youtube-dl
running on a normal user's PC can't find an update version later than
December 2021, then it doesn't matter whether work is being done
behind the scenes or not. It may matter in the future, if there ever
is a release, but it doesn't matter _now_ because a youtube-dl that
is throttled by Youtube is effectively useless.

Who's making these commits, anyway? I thought the original author had
decided not to keep chasing Youtube's frequent changes. Wasn't that
why someone forked it to create yt-dlp?

In any case, as of right now, and unless I'm _really_ missing
something, if you want to download from Youtube you need to use yt-
dlp, not youtube-dl.

--
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...

In alt.comp.software.firefox Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 20 Jun 2023 08:41:15 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> In alt.comp.software.firefox solid hyrax <solidhyrax@420blaze.it> wrote:
>> > On 6/19/23 02:20, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> >> In alt.comp.software.firefox Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:
>> >>> How can I "repair" this?
>> >>> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>> >>
>> >> I use youtube-dl. The latest official release is broken now, but
>> >> these daily builds work:
>> >> https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/
>> >
>> > youtube-dl has been deprecated and is not in active development.
>>
>> That is very obviously untrue, just one look at the GitHub page
>> will show much evidence of active development. Right now it says
>> the latest changes were made on June 17, 2023.
>>
>> https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commits/master
>
> Seems to me like a distinction without a difference.

The difference is that it works, whereas if it weren't still in
development it wouldn't.

If features don't change much then that's a good thing - I want
them to keep working how they have done because they do what I
want. The developers keep it working, I keep using it, yt-dlp is
beside the point - for me it's a fix for something that ain't
broke.

> If youtube-dl
> running on a normal user's PC can't find an update version later than
> December 2021, then it doesn't matter whether work is being done
> behind the scenes or not.

Well the latest daily build can always be retrieved at this link:
https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/latest/download/youtube-dl

Or this for Windows:
https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/latest/download/youtube-dl.exe

I can use Wget to download new versions like that from the command
line just as easily as running it with the "-U" option anyway. Not
that I need to do so often.

> It may matter in the future, if there ever
> is a release, but it doesn't matter _now_ because a youtube-dl that
> is throttled by Youtube is effectively useless.

No it's not throttled anymore. Try the latest daily build yourself.

> Who's making these commits, anyway? I thought the original author had
> decided not to keep chasing Youtube's frequent changes. Wasn't that
> why someone forked it to create yt-dlp?

I have no idea why yt-dlp was created, but whether the original
author is involved still or not, the point is that youtube-dl is
still an actively developed and valid option.

> In any case, as of right now, and unless I'm _really_ missing
> something, if you want to download from Youtube you need to use yt-
> dlp, not youtube-dl.

YES you're _really_ missing something - the links that I'm posting
right here to working builds of youtube-dl. Jeeze.

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Op 18-6-2023 om 23:47 schreef Ben@XPOnly.org:
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:31:50 +0200, Rink
> <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:
>
>> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
>> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
>> on Windows7-SP1.
>> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>>
>> Both add-ons fail now.
>>
>> How can I "repair" this?
>> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>>
>> Rink
>
> https://www.3dyd.com/
>

Ben,

As a seperate program it works fantastic!
I even can choose the quality of the video,
but I learned to choose maximum the "transmitted" quality.
And I can choose to download only audio.

Thank you very much.
Rink

In message <u76kqk$3hng$1@dont-email.me> at Sat, 24 Jun 2023 13:42:05,
Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> writes
>Op 18-6-2023 om 23:47 schreef Ben@XPOnly.org:
>> On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:31:50 +0200, Rink
>> <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
>>> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
>>> on Windows7-SP1.
>>> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>>>
>>> Both add-ons fail now.
>>>
>>> How can I "repair" this?
>>> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>>>
>>> Rink
>> https://www.3dyd.com/
>>
>
>
>Ben,
>
>As a seperate program it works fantastic!
>I even can choose the quality of the video,
>but I learned to choose maximum the "transmitted" quality.
>And I can choose to download only audio.
>
>Thank you very much.
>Rink

Fellow yt-dlp users:
If I want just audio, I generally download the video and then extract
the audio (I use Pazera, as it's _clear_ from that that it's extracting
the original audio without recoding it to something else, which isn't
always clear - to me anyway - for other extractors. It's based on ffmpeg
etc., like most such utilities). But the other day I decided to try to
use the audio-only function of y' itself: the -x option. So I tried it,
and it failed saying I didn't have ffmpeg or ffprobe.exe. So I copied
those (I did have them) to the y' folder, then tried again; it then said
I didn't have some .dll. So I copied that - now a different .dll
(similar name, just a different number). Tried one more time, then gave
up.

Anyone else (W7-32) using the -x option without trouble? Or, is there
some other _simple_ way of downloading audio only with yt-dlp? ("Simple"
does _not_ include downloading a list of available formats then choosing
one.)
--
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Who is Art, and why does life imitate him?

On 6/24/2023 9:09 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> In message <u76kqk$3hng$1@dont-email.me> at Sat, 24 Jun 2023 13:42:05, Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> writes
>> Op 18-6-2023 om 23:47 schreef Ben@XPOnly.org:
>>> On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:31:50 +0200, Rink
>>> <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Since one week I cannot download video's from YouTube anymore.
>>>> I have the add-ons Ant-video-downloader and VideoDownloadHelper.
>>>> on Windows7-SP1.
>>>> Firefox 100.0.2 (64-bits).
>>>>
>>>> Both add-ons fail now.
>>>>
>>>> How can I "repair" this?
>>>> Or is there another download add-on or program?
>>>>
>>>> Rink
>>>  https://www.3dyd.com/
>>>
>>
>>
>> Ben,
>>
>> As a seperate program it works fantastic!
>> I even can choose the quality of the video,
>> but I learned to choose maximum the "transmitted" quality.
>> And I can choose to download only audio.
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>> Rink
>
> Fellow yt-dlp users:
> If I want just audio, I generally download the video and then extract the audio (I use Pazera, as it's _clear_ from that that it's extracting the original audio without recoding it to something else, which isn't always clear - to me anyway - for other extractors. It's based on ffmpeg etc., like most such utilities). But the other day I decided to try to use the audio-only function of y' itself: the -x option. So I tried it, and it failed saying I didn't have ffmpeg or ffprobe.exe. So I copied those (I did have them) to the y' folder, then tried again; it then said I didn't have some .dll. So I copied that - now a different .dll (similar name, just a different number). Tried one more time, then gave up.
>
> Anyone else (W7-32) using the -x option without trouble? Or, is there some other _simple_ way of downloading audio only with yt-dlp? ("Simple" does _not_ include downloading a list of available formats then choosing one.)

You should be using a package with statically compiled executables,
ffmpeg.exe , ffprobe.exe , ffplay.exe

Zeranoe used to build and serve those. Now, it's Gyan.

https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/

In my collection -- package seems well-compressed:

Name: ffmpeg-5.1.2-full_build__Nov24_2022.7z
Size: 47,431,656 bytes (45 MiB)
SHA256: 037BDB2183189DC0EFA642B1FDE7D6B33C6114036FA06FAF35F777E8DF07D863

C:\Users\username\Downloads\ffmpeg-5.1.2-full_build__Nov24_2022.7z\ffmpeg-5.1.2-full_build\bin\
ffmpeg.exe 127,396,864 bytes
ffplay.exe 127,259,648 bytes
ffprobe.exe 127,296,512 bytes

And those are static, as there are *no* DLL files in the bin folder.
All the DLL content (libs) hide inside the EXE file.

Paul