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ClipGrab is a very good freeware youtube/facebook video search engine & downloader GUI which incorporates yt-dlp but you have to get the right known good version
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Incubus
Jun 20, 2023, 7:26:55 PM6/20/23
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ClipGrab is a very good Windows/Linux/Mac freeware youtube/facebook video
search engine & downloader GUI which incorporates yt-dlp but you have to
get the correct known good version.
Both the bad and good version are on the home page https://clipgrab.org/
The bad version has the big fat bright all caps exclamation button.
The good version is in almost unreadable teeny tiny text almost hidden.
Good. https://download.clipgrab.org/clipgrab-3.9.7-portable.exe
Name: clipgrab-3.9.7-portable.exe
Size: 73728520 bytes (70 MiB)
SHA256: 0AE8656F4C65673D75544CFF54721CBFC586EDD6E8B4B2A2070930684920411E
Bad. https://download.clipgrab.org/clipgrab-3.9.7-dotinstaller.exe
Name: clipgrab-3.9.7-dotinstaller.exe
Size: 2905704 bytes (2837 KiB)
SHA256: F980E92AF3341650819CA6C985294EBE0AA78D38BDFE249536D7EC7F2EFC6ECF
Here's what it does:
1. ClipGrab can run a search for you (which yt-dlp doesn't do, AFAIK)
2. ClipGrab shows the results in a nice thumbnail view with titles
3. ClipGrab downloads the video using pulldown options for quality & format
I think the yt-dlp only does that third thing, which I admit, isn't that
big of a deal since we can all run a command in the command line ourselves.
But those two things combined with that third thing is what makes me
recommend ClipGrab over all the other youtube downloader GUIs I know of.
Here's my recommendation, having tested EVERY program suggested so far.
Windows: ClipGrab
Linux: ClipGrab
Mac: ClipGrab
Android: NewPipe
iOS: you're fucked
More details here.
I want to watch a youtube video that asks me to sign in to confirm my age
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.os.linux/c/OEwyZxrNb7M
search engine & downloader GUI which incorporates yt-dlp but you have to
get the correct known good version.
Both the bad and good version are on the home page https://clipgrab.org/
The bad version has the big fat bright all caps exclamation button.
The good version is in almost unreadable teeny tiny text almost hidden.
Good. https://download.clipgrab.org/clipgrab-3.9.7-portable.exe
Name: clipgrab-3.9.7-portable.exe
Size: 73728520 bytes (70 MiB)
SHA256: 0AE8656F4C65673D75544CFF54721CBFC586EDD6E8B4B2A2070930684920411E
Bad. https://download.clipgrab.org/clipgrab-3.9.7-dotinstaller.exe
Name: clipgrab-3.9.7-dotinstaller.exe
Size: 2905704 bytes (2837 KiB)
SHA256: F980E92AF3341650819CA6C985294EBE0AA78D38BDFE249536D7EC7F2EFC6ECF
Here's what it does:
1. ClipGrab can run a search for you (which yt-dlp doesn't do, AFAIK)
2. ClipGrab shows the results in a nice thumbnail view with titles
3. ClipGrab downloads the video using pulldown options for quality & format
I think the yt-dlp only does that third thing, which I admit, isn't that
big of a deal since we can all run a command in the command line ourselves.
But those two things combined with that third thing is what makes me
recommend ClipGrab over all the other youtube downloader GUIs I know of.
Here's my recommendation, having tested EVERY program suggested so far.
Windows: ClipGrab
Linux: ClipGrab
Mac: ClipGrab
Android: NewPipe
iOS: you're fucked
More details here.
I want to watch a youtube video that asks me to sign in to confirm my age
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.os.linux/c/OEwyZxrNb7M
AllanH
Jun 21, 2023, 8:39:01 AM6/21/23
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YoutubeVideoDownloader), the GUI Downloader I've been using for yt-dlp.
https://www.videohelp.com/software/YoutubeVideoDownloader
It's smaller and at least as fast as ClipGrab for the download and
conversion. TVDownloader can also download subtitles, if available. I
don't have a need for the YouTube Search feature. I have YouTube set up
as a search engine in both of my Web browsers.
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