Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms

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 · 7 months ago

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 · 7 months ago

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 · 7 months ago

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.

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.

apfsx · 7 months ago

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?

hnlmorg · 7 months ago

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.

xnx · 7 months ago

Right. I'm saying that Java Applets could've put too much control into the hands of the user, so they had to be removed in 2015.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF · 7 months ago

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 · 7 months ago

Yes, and other limitations of network access that Java applets did not have.

dzek69 · 7 months ago

teach · 7 months ago

How does this differ from something like yt-dlp? I assume that's what you use under the hood.

rasz · 7 months ago

yt-dlp actually works for YT.

Saris · 7 months ago

Ease of use probably.

sharpshadow · 7 months ago

Keep it up there are never enough media downloaders online, somehow they always fade away into oblivion.

gear54rus · 7 months ago

So does it support downloading something that requires a specific account? This sounds like a job for a browser extension and not a website.

Otherwise a very good idea and definitely necessary in today's world.

thank you so much, these are the words I needed to keep working on this tool.

stunnAR · 7 months ago

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_ · 7 months ago

https://cobalt.tools/ is also pretty good

dagorenouf · 7 months ago

It could be super useful but I tried to download an instagram reel and it doesn't work. https://www.instagram.com/p/DE3gmTfsUlg/?hl=fr

If you have time, please try again, it's still not 100% but I'll see what I can do tomorrow.