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?
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2024
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I can't seem to get its downloading of subtitles to work.
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.
@Dymonika do --list-subs first, different videos offer different subs with different names
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...
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.
yt-dlp is a command line tool but amazing. Works also on windows.
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.
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.
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.