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Can anyone suggest a yt and Facebook video downloader for windows. (buddyverse.one)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use linux and android. So I don't need it. One of my windows friend asked me about it. As you known windows users are scared of terminal so GUI programme. I would also like it to be open source.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you install yt-dlp and make a script for downloading, then users drag and drop a link onto the script on their desktop, is this «GUI» enough to be used?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I can't seem to get its downloading of subtitles to work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You've checked out this:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#subtitle-options

? I think I've used --write-subs and --sub-langs all and it worked as expected in the past.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@Dymonika do --list-subs first, different videos offer different subs with different names

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ummmm... I'm an impatient loser who uses a GUI, haha: https://github.com/ErrorFlynn/ytdlp-interface

I'll have to dig more into its readme, I guess...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

yt-dlp is a command line tool but amazing. Works also on windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Just use yt-dlp. It's not hard to use. You just type yt-dlp, paste the video link, and press enter to download the highest quality version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm using video download helper, an extension for firefox https://www.downloadhelper.net/ and it can download about every video from web site. At one time it was not able so it asked me to install a Companion App and with it was able to dl from anime site and all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure about Facebook since authenticating for private videos is a hurdle, but for my partner who uses a mac I downloaded open video downloader which is just a foss GUI for ytdl, it also keeps ytdl up to date which is a requirement for me since I don't want to be called when it stops working. I think on windows you have to manually install msvc2010redist but besides that it seems to just work out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I use Parabolic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

https://cobalt.tools is a great downloader for a lot of different sites. If you do want a desktop app, I would also recommend Parabolic.