What free iOS app downloads video & rips audio from YouTube?

[Roy Tremblay]

What free (no browser, no money, no login, no ads, no nothing) iOS app
downloads & rips audio from Youtube videos?

On the Android ng, we found a great solution for Android:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.mobile.android/b3vWA2G2HLI/wdiLiFIwBwAJ

On the Windows ng, we found a good solution for Win/Linux/Mac:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/AB8gWkSnM1E

Here are three simple test cases that the other tools passed easily
Easy testcase: https://youtu.be/AI5wEcWAmkg
Hard testcase: https://youtu.be/VuNIsY6JdUw
Long testcase: https://youtu.be/CBrsWPCp_rs

Today "nospam" posted to both groups that iOS has the same functionality.
When pressed for the answer, he can't even back up his own statements.

What free (no browser, no money, no login, no ads, no nothing) iOS app
downloads & rips audio from Youtube videos?

[Roy Tremblay]

Roy Tremblay <rembla...@nlnet.nl> actually wrote:

> What free (no browser, no money, no login, no ads, no nothing) iOS app
> downloads & rips audio from Youtube videos?

BTW, if you don't know the answer to the question, please do not respond.

The answer probably is that the functionality doesn't exist on iOS.

So, a billion useless posts by nospam isn't going to make the functionality
suddenly appear on iOS even though it exists on all other platforms.

What free (no browser, no money, no login, no ads, no nothing) iOS app

*downloads video & rips audio* from Youtube videos?

[Your Name]

On 2017-07-17 02:55:39 +0000, Roy Tremblay said:

> What free (no browser, no money, no login, no ads, no nothing) iOS app
> downloads & rips audio from Youtube videos?

You don't need any silly app wasting storage space. There's plenty of
free websites that can download YouTube vidoes. KeepVid.com is the one
I tend to use, but there's a ton of others.

[Roy Tremblay]

Your Name <Your...@YourISP.com> actually wrote:

>> What free (no browser, no money, no login, no ads, no nothing) iOS app

>> downloads video & rips audio from Youtube videos?

>
> You don't need any silly app wasting storage space. There's plenty of
> free websites that can download YouTube vidoes. KeepVid.com is the one
> I tend to use, but there's a ton of others.

Keepvid.com seems nice in that the home page says "Batch download YouTube
playlists with one click" and "Convert YouTube to MP3" on the front web
page (and it handles 10,000 other sites, it says).

They reference on the bottom of the home page this CBS article:
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-download-videos-from-youtube-vimeo-and-more/

The legality for personal use is ok is what the CNET article says, as
commercial sale and hence commercial distribution of the downloaded
material is what's illegal in the USA (they said).

That CNET how-to-download article listed the best as
1. KeepVid
2. NetVideoHunter (Firefox only).
3. Free YouTube Downloaderhttp://download.cnet.com/Free-YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-75219434.html
4. MacTubes for Mac http://download.cnet.com/MacTubes/3000-2139_4-204278.html

What is perhaps not all that surprising is that the Android newsgroup came
up with a far better answer, as did the Windows newsgroup, both of which
easily met the simple criteria of (no browser, no money, no login, no ads,
no nothing) and all passed the 3 testcases easily:

Easy testcase: https://youtu.be/AI5wEcWAmkg
Hard testcase: https://youtu.be/VuNIsY6JdUw
Long testcase: https://youtu.be/CBrsWPCp_rs

Since those two options don't exist for iOS, and even though KeepVid used a
browser and doesn't support MP3, I tested it out on the three test URLs:
http://keepvid.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FAI5wEcWAmkg
http://keepvid.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FVuNIsY6JdUw
http://keepvid.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FCBrsWPCp_rs

They all worked fine.

At first it seemed as if a "login" or "registration" was required, since
I pasted the test URL into keepvid.com https://youtu.be/CBrsWPCp_rs and
only then does it say
"Content can't be played. It seems you are not logged into your account"
but it still allows you to click the button to download it anyway (so
that's just a recommendation, I guess).

So keepvid passed the no-registration test, and then for each file, it
downloaded them just fine (with a minor inconvenience regarding handling
KeepVid's "videoplayback" naming conventions).

So of the test goals we set a week ago for Android & Windows:

(no browser, no money, no login, no ads, no nothing)

KeepVid only failed one (which isn't too bad).

It's not an iOS solution by any means in the same way as the Android &
Windows solutions were, but it certainly works on iOS since it's a
browser-based solution.

[Your Name]

On 2017-07-17 14:41:25 +0000, Roy Tremblay said:
> Your Name <Your...@YourISP.com> actually wrote:
>>
>>> What free (no browser, no money, no login, no ads, no nothing) iOS app
>>> downloads video & rips audio from Youtube videos?
>>
>> You don't need any silly app wasting storage space. There's plenty of
>> free websites that can download YouTube vidoes. KeepVid.com is the one
>> I tend to use, but there's a ton of others.
>
> Keepvid.com seems nice in that the home page says "Batch download YouTube
> playlists with one click" and "Convert YouTube to MP3" on the front web
> page (and it handles 10,000 other sites, it says).
>

<snip>

> That CNET how-to-download article listed the best as
> 1. KeepVid
> 2. NetVideoHunter (Firefox only).
> 3. Free YouTube
> Downloaderhttp://download.cnet.com/Free-YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-75219434.html
>
> 4. MacTubes for Mac http://download.cnet.com/MacTubes/3000-2139_4-204278.html

There are a ton of other web-based downloaders around. A simple Google
search will give you a long list.

Depending on the YouTube video itself, there are usually a variety of
download options for different video quality and audio-only.

> What is perhaps not all that surprising is that the Android newsgroup came
> up with a far better answer, as did the Windows newsgroup, both of which
> easily met the simple criteria of (no browser, no money, no login, no ads,
> no nothing) and all passed the 3 testcases easily:
> Easy testcase: https://youtu.be/AI5wEcWAmkg
> Hard testcase: https://youtu.be/VuNIsY6JdUw
> Long testcase: https://youtu.be/CBrsWPCp_rs
>
> Since those two options don't exist for iOS, and even though KeepVid used a
> browser and doesn't support MP3, I tested it out on the three test URLs:
> http://keepvid.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FAI5wEcWAmkg
> http://keepvid.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FVuNIsY6JdUw
> http://keepvid.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FCBrsWPCp_rs
>
> They all worked fine.
>
> At first it seemed as if a "login" or "registration" was required, since
> I pasted the test URL into keepvid.com https://youtu.be/CBrsWPCp_rs and
> only then does it say
> "Content can't be played. It seems you are not logged into your account"
> but it still allows you to click the button to download it anyway (so
> that's just a recommendation, I guess).
>
> So keepvid passed the no-registration test, and then for each file, it
> downloaded them just fine (with a minor inconvenience regarding handling
> KeepVid's "videoplayback" naming conventions).

There is no login required for normal KeepVid. It does fail on some
videos because they are protected by YouTube. Some of teh other
web-based downloaders may or may not work (in some cases it's due to
their location and the region protection).

> So of the test goals we set a week ago for Android & Windows:
> (no browser, no money, no login, no ads, no nothing)
> KeepVid only failed one (which isn't too bad).
>
> It's not an iOS solution by any means in the same way as the Android &
> Windows solutions were, but it certainly works on iOS since it's a
> browser-based solution.

Seems a waste of time using yet another app when it can easily be done
in the standard web browser.