Talk:Comparison of YouTube downloaders

NPOV issue
Product being compared must be sorted alphabetically. B7elijah (talk) 23:29, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Is this correct?
What does the "Usability" column mean? There is "Yes" value set for all products in that table. But what would "No" value mean? The program is unusable?.. B7elijah (talk) 23:38, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes Maijent (talk) 21:44, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Free YouTube Downloader
Does anyone agree that "Free YouTube Downloader" should be added to the list of YouTube downloaders?

I've installed and tested this system. It seems to work well and is very easy to use.

Checkout these websites:

http://download.cnet.com/Free-YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-75219434.html?tag=contentBody;pop

http://youtubedownloader.com/

Regards, Benjo (talk) 05:33, 27 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm pretty sure MBAM classifies that one as a PUP.
 * However, there are a whole bunch of down-loaders with similar sounding names that curiously do not appear in this article. Many of these :are also classified by MBAM as PUPs. "YouTube Video Downloader" - download.cnet.com/YouTube-Video-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10810714.html? & :"YouTube Downloader" - http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-75706858.html?tag=dre, seem clean, and should be added to :this article. (Note: there are many of these with very similar names, like "YouTube Free Downloader", that do contain malware.)
 * Yaakovaryeh (talk) 21:02, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

4KDownload supports batch download now
http://www.4kdownload.com/howto/howto-download-youtube-channel — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.90.126.253 (talk) 10:19, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Youtube-dl missing
I noticed youtube-dl, a really awesome command-line downloader is missing. It's available at http://yt-dl.org with source at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl and runs on most operating systems. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.10.4.30 (talk) 13:53, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

The Graphical interface Youtube-dlG is also missing (with easy playlist download possibility) : https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.128.215.221 (talk) 11:23, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

clipping column
I would like to know which programs allow designating a start / end time and only downloading a video clip of just that.

Like say for example there is a 2 hour youtube movie but you only want to download 10 seconds of it, downloading the ENTIRE thing and then needing to edit it yourself is pretty inefficient. ScratchMarshall (talk) 06:03, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

More web based downloaders with advance features
Want to add YTDownload(https://freeytdownload.com) and Other downloaders also in the list. Check this (https://www.gihosoft.com/hot-topics/best-free-youtube-downloader.html) .Pixelora (talk) 15:26, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Not done, as it does not have a Wikipedia article. "This is a comparison of notable YouTube download and conversion software" – Þjarkur (talk) 16:20, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

4KDownloader is now crippleware
4KDownloader is now crippleware. --77.117.167.43 (talk) 03:05, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Private videos column
What is the purpose of the private videos column in the features section? At first I'd assume that it denotes the ability of a downloader to download private videos using some way to authenticate, but that would mean that youtube-dl would be marked as 'yes', as it can be fed credentials/cookies for authentication (for example through the --cookies parameter). Is that a mistake, or am I misunderstanding the purpose of the column? A clearer tooltip description should probably be implemented if the latter is the case. Marko H Zajc (talk) 10:46, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Invidious works on Android
Just tested with the Vivaldi browser on my Android phone and it always works quite perfectly. (Autoplay was a bit bugged on my older phone, but it might be fixed now.) https://files.catbox.moe/jq4r2a.jpg 05:27, 29 September 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ijklk128 (talk • contribs)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 March 2023
I came forward to suggest the best YouTube video downloader savefromus i found is the efficient downloader ,the current resources available on the respective page of wikipedia are outdated or have broken links, so i would like to recommend to add that site too on the page to help users navigate easily. Am246800 (talk) 11:28, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * This is a list of software with preexisting Wikipedia articles. - MrOllie (talk) 12:18, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

FYI - Request to Google to Delist this Page
Evidently Because Music has sent a request to Google to delist this page due to the anti-circumvention portion of the DMCA. Discussed here. MollyRealized (talk) 19:43, 28 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Came across that myself and listed it with press above. ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:17, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Add yt-dlp
Yt-dl has limited download speeds and development decreased heavily compared to 2021. Yt-dlp seems to be the successor with 50k GitHub stars https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp I can't as editing is locked it's foss 77.174.60.168 (talk) 20:48, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Add Fildo (File Downloader)
Hi,

Could you include https://fildo.net ? it was an open source project on github that ended up being withdrawn, but the android application is still working, it allows to get music from different third party search engines that are public on the internet.

As far as I know it is totally legal 188.127.189.231 (talk) 16:51, 31 May 2023 (UTC)


 * This is a list of software with preexisting Wikipedia articles. MrOllie (talk) 17:03, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Add yt-dlp - active fork of youtube-dl
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Rofrol~enwiki (talk) 22:33, 31 May 2023 (UTC)