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About 2 years ago I started using and even paid for a license for 4K Downloader. It was nice because I could copy and paste a few links to videos from a channel and it would allow me to download the whole channel from there. I could even have it run in smart mode or whatever it's called so any new videos from channels I had previously pulled, would auto download at whatever quality I set. Is there any good replacement for this? I like the automation portion quite a bit

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[–] raul_dias@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. I just use IDM now

[–] ojfs@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Use jdownloader 2

[–] randomname97531@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I use jDownloader 2 mostly. Just grab the video, playlist or channel's URL, paste it in jDownloader 2 and you're good to go.

[–] lululemonstre@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I also paid for it. It doesn’t work like this anymore ? I haven’t tested recently

[–] SamStarnes@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I've been working on this since March 2023. I've been a bit busy and it's not finished (there's a lot of features missing) but it'll do the job.

https://github.com/samstarnes/vdm

If you can follow the installation guide it'll work fine but no promises on when I get the next set of features implemented (trying to integrate meilisearch into it.)

Otherwise I recommend cli yt-dlp.

[–] sgiuxxx@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Anonymoustustling@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you use docker I can't recommend this one enough

https://github.com/Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material

works with youtube, vimeo, tiktok, and some others. You can also make playlists that when get updated it will grab from.

[–] phillibl@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

100% love having it available from anywhere