How do you download youtube vids?

[DedRoll]

Good day,

I have a problem with youtube that just delete videos out of nowhere from my playlist


I usually use website like cobalt.tools however it doesn't work anymore, do you guys have any good alternative?

[Crazyroostereye]

Download your Playlists as soon as Possible. With that you can Ensure that Videos won disappear in the Future. I sadly dont know how to retroactivly restore it tho, maybe you can remember the Video title or smth and find a reupload?

Here two tools to Download Videos and Playlists:
1. For the Terminal Nutcase : yt-dlp
It's a YouTube, and other Platforms Downloader that can also Download Playlists.
2. A Gui Varient, using ytdlp in the back: Parabolic
It runs on Windows and Linux.

I sadly can't tell you on restoring that video, unless you can remember the Video and find it again or a reupload of it.

[Fireye]

+1 to yt-dlp and any derivative tools. Its good to go directly to the source and any of these YouTube downloader websites are likely just frontends for yt-dlp anyway

[TeaInTheMorning]

+1 to yt-dlp and any derivative tools. Its good to go directly to the source and any of these YouTube downloader websites are likely just frontends for yt-dlp anyway

Also +1
and +1 to the website things

There are a lot of sketch websites around the services youtube-dl and youtube-dlp offer
Get it directly from the source, and use an interface like mpv over it if that's your speed

[DedRoll]

I sadly can't tell you on restoring that video, unless you can remember the Video and find it again or a reupload of it.

Fortunately i've found this: https://quiteaplaylist.com/


(I'm sorry if the image sent is too big idk how to resize it)

It's not restoring the video but it's restoring info such as the title, description, and maybe thumbnail.

About yt-dlp, i've tried it and it worked! I do have a question. So when i download normaly using cmd with just "yt-dlp [Youtube link]" is it gonna be always downloading video with the highest resolution? If so is there a way to limit for example only 1080p?

[Crazyroostereye]

About yt-dlp, i've tried it and it worked! I do have a question. So when i download normaly using cmd with just "yt-dlp [Youtube link]" is it gonna be always downloading video with the highest resolution? If so is there a way to limit for example only 1080p?

Yes YT-DLP is incredibly versatile, you can do a lot. I highly recommend reading the docs as they include everything you would ever need. But for your requirement you can use

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yt-dlp --format "ba+bv[height<=1080]" <youtube link>

This would download the best audio and best video max height of 1080px, and then combine them together, if separate.

yt-dlp has so many options, you can download subtitles, other Language audio tracks. Multiple Qualitys and then merge them into one video file to have to open. Obviously that will use a lot of storage per video, but it is cool. You have Sponsorblock, for example to cut out Non Music parts in Music videos, etc...

[DedRoll]

Yes YT-DLP is incredibly versatile, you can do a lot. I highly recommend reading the docs as they include everything you would ever need. But for your requirement you can use

Code: Select all

yt-dlp --format "ba+bv[height<=1080]" <youtube link>

This would download the best audio and best video max height of 1080px, and then combine them together, if separate.

yt-dlp has so many options, you can download subtitles, other Language audio tracks. Multiple Qualitys and then merge them into one video file to have to open. Obviously that will use a lot of storage per video, but it is cool. You have Sponsorblock, for example to cut out Non Music parts in Music videos, etc...

Thank you so much for your help it save me a ton