I was using clipgrab for my video downloads on several of my Linux installs but lately it has not been working, can not be upgraded, or re-installed on some. On one, Mabox I was able to re-install and upgrade it and it still works. What would be a good alternative to clipgrab?
many of us use yt-dlp
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I use JDownloader2. But I haven’t used it on EndeavourOS yet.
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I use both of the recommendations above - dlp and jdownloader2. I have also tried yt-dlg, but in comparison to the two above, I don’t like it all that much. For yt-dlp, I use the following arguments. You can use it as is or change it to suit your needs.
yt-dlp -f 'bestvideo[height<=1080]+bestaudio' --merge-output-format mp4 --embed-metadata --limit-rate 3M --restrict-filenames -o '%(channel)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://youtube.com/videoLink
I actually use it as a function in fish/zsh, so I only type dlp and paste the URLs:
#fish
function dlp
yt-dlp -f 'bestvideo[height<=1080]+bestaudio' --merge-output-format mp4 --embed-metadata --limit-rate 3M --restrict-filenames -o '%(channel)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' $argv
end
#zsh
dlp() {
yt-dlp -f 'bestvideo[height<=1080]+bestaudio' --merge-output-format mp4 --embed-metadata --limit-rate 3M --restrict-filenames -o '%(channel)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' "$@"
}
Looks like this in the terminal (just spaces with no need for quotes):
dlp https://youtube.com/videoLink1 https://youtube.com/videoLink2
Thanks for all of the advice everyone! I am not against the idea of doing things by way of the terminal but I prefer to do video downloads with a GUI so I went with 4K Video Downloader Plus and Video Downloader. I will keep which ever one I am most pleased with and unintall the other later.
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You could give a try to Tartube, is you want a GUI. From my experience, it works quite fine.
suggestion: https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader with yt-dlp-aria2c plugin
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