Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms
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·January 15, 2025dzek69
You can't post direct links you get from youtube on your server to the users, they will get 403 most often if they use these links from different IP.
Heck, you even have the IP in the link itself :) 2605:a140:2236:8761::1
Also for protected media, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk it only gives 360p and audio this way. Far from 4K you promise.
sanusihassan
I was hesitant to open the link, thought it was a rick-roll. I've been working on the other downloaders, and I guess YouTube is one of the most used platforms, a lot of people are asking me to fix the youtube-downloader, I think I'll start working on that, thanks for bringing it up.
Obscurity4340
Where can one learn how to do this and all the mechanics of how its done? One of my greatest fears is not having good YT streaming and downloading solutions in the future :(
HenryBemis
I use Firefox and I see (on the player's settings) that it goes as high as 1080. The addon of my InternetDownloadManager also goes as high as 1080.
teach
How does this differ from something like yt-dlp? I assume that's what you use under the hood.
sharpshadow
Keep it up there are never enough media downloaders online, somehow they always fade away into oblivion.
xnx
I'm increasingly suspicious that Java applets were removed from the browser so it wouldn't be easy for non-nerds to easily run tools like yt-dlp from their browser.
hnlmorg
YouTube wasn’t even around when Java applets were a thing.
Also back then anything multimedia was also served via a plugin. Multimedia in the Java applet era was either streaming via Real Player, or later, via Flash.
apfsx
How about like 10-15 years ago when everybody and their mother could spin up a RAT and do drive-by installations with a webpage?
01HNNWZ0MV43FF
I would think the big factor for running yt-dlp in a browser would be CORS, not the language used to implement the downloader?
xnx
Yes, and other limitations of network access that Java applets did not have.
duskwuff
Java had restrictions on cross-domain access just like Javascript does and Flash did.
Users could grant applets additional permissions - but that also granted them local permissions (like reading files) which were unambiguously a security risk.
stunnAR
B0rken. . Gives me the following error: Access to rr2---sn-vgqsrnek.googlevideo.com was denied.
You don't have authorisation to view this page.
HTTP Error 403
anomaly_
https://cobalt.tools/ is also pretty good
devops000
Loom downloader is also useful. You cannot download a Loom if you are not premium.
derkades
this is a good service for those who cannot use yt-dlp on the command line. However I am turned off by the AI generated images, they are very odd and have nothing to do with the website. Also some of the text reads like AI marketing speak
cloudking
What's the legality of tools like this?
boraturan
yt-dlp wrapper?
sanusihassan
not totally, I used yt_dlp for the Twitter downloader and the YouTube downloader
bouillebasset
Can we get pornhub/eporner support too? :)
libpcap
Any plan to make that a Chrome extension?
sanusihassan
Most of the time, I look for online tools to download media, but a Chrome extension could also be a good idea too.
My goal is to create a free media downloader that doesn't bother you. friendly, efficient, and has no paywalls or anything like that.
I've been working on that for the last 3 weeks or so, it's not perfect yet, but it works, and I'm really excited to share it.