In tje past years I have downloaded and archived about 200 GB of my favorite YouTube videos using yt-dlp. Most of them are low resolution for storage reasons, so it’s a lot more videos than you’d think. Now they can’t be taken away from me and I can watch them whenever I want.
I dunno if I would call it rough; it’s just a CLI tool. You write yt-dlp and then paste in the URL.
Maybe I’m doing that xkcd comic where I overestimate average people’s familiarity with CLI though. It only gets complicated if you want to customise it beyond the basic flags in your global config file. I set it to include chapters and download subtitles for example. Once I get home I’ll try and remember to paste my config file here.
In tje past years I have downloaded and archived about 200 GB of my favorite YouTube videos using yt-dlp. Most of them are low resolution for storage reasons, so it’s a lot more videos than you’d think. Now they can’t be taken away from me and I can watch them whenever I want.
So yt-dlp can be a bit rough for non-power users. There is a fantastic GUI wrapper for it called Stacher7. I use it daily.
I dunno if I would call it rough; it’s just a CLI tool. You write
yt-dlpand then paste in the URL.Maybe I’m doing that xkcd comic where I overestimate average people’s familiarity with CLI though. It only gets complicated if you want to customise it beyond the basic flags in your global config file. I set it to include chapters and download subtitles for example. Once I get home I’ll try and remember to paste my config file here.