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jacatone

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Registered: 2018-02-14

Posts: 26

Looking for a Youtube downloader

I've spent hours and hours trying to find a Youtube downloader that actually works.Tartube is way too complicated Youtube Downloader didn't work and tried several others. Installed all these different files with Phython and others because the CLI said I needed them and so on. I probably should just do a re-install just get rid of I crap I installed. I can certainly understand why linux on the desktop is only at 5%.

crosscourt

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Registered: 2017-05-07

Posts: 2,706

Re: Looking for a Youtube downloader

I use VideoDownloader available in the Q4OS software center and it works great.

About 5% for desktops, the way the stats are done for Linux, that number is probably much higher, but if you add the fact that 100% of supercomputers use it and 62.5% of all servers use it(including the New York Stock Exchange)that number is a bit deceiving.

Last edited by crosscourt (2025-08-01 02:59)

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,556

Re: Looking for a Youtube downloader

yt-dlp - never failed yet
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releas … -dlp_linux
Edit permissions to make it executable.
Go to YT, copy the url of the video
Open terminal in the location of the yt-dlp_linux binary
./yt-dlp_linux {url of video}
Job done.