How do "you" download Youtube playlists?  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2014, 02:10:03 pm
content: /.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2014, 02:36:50 pm
content: I just use Flashgot, it works quite well and as well can do an entire variety of downloads, along with being able to do a whole selection of links with one single instance, doing them in sequence to a designated directory. Helps with the slow connection I have.

author: cimmo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2014, 03:51:07 pm
content: Primarily JDownloader, but I also have the "1 Click Youtube Video Downloader" addon for Firefox.

author: hans
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2014, 04:55:02 pm
content: Before I used greasemonkey script Youtube center, which only just recently has went down. It allowed direct download of video files under the video, amongst a lot of other useful things (like those buffering issues). Unfortunaly, that's not a batch downloader.There is also a variety of sites that allow you to paste a link, and get the download URL or convert the video to MP3 right away. These work OK, but can be heavily loaded with ads and other crap.As for real browser plugins or programs that download video's; in my experience they are loaded with adware, malware, and other junk. Especially the most downloaded Firefox and chrome plugins are known to display ads on them own, track history, etc. Some apps have hundreds of negative reviews "this plug-in is adware" - but no action is taken.Even more annoyingly; some programs were historically honest good plugins but now abuse the "auto update" feature of Firefox. And snap, the program has been "updated" and includes nothing new; except a few ads here and there..As for youtube-dl , it actually looks quite useful. I may actually try it on my laptop machine. My music playlist of youtube is over 500 songs long, so downloading and converting those manually would take a while.

author: kripton2035
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2014, 05:32:23 pm
content: clipgrab is nice, free and fast.

author: justanothercanuck
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2014, 06:18:14 pm
content: I don't get any ads on youtube with adblock...?

author: r0d3z1
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2018, 02:49:46 pm
content: IMHOhttps://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/is the best solution

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2018, 03:29:02 pm
content: I use an old copy of Firefox 22 which still works with Flashgot.Can't stand the new Firefox.

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2018, 04:28:43 pm
content: Quote from: MrMobodies on November 05, 2018, 03:29:02 pmTake a look at Pale Moon.

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2018, 05:42:34 pm
content: Quote from: rdl on November 05, 2018, 04:28:43 pmI think I did some years ago, along with Waterfox and had some issues with some email host sites but I can't remember I'll take another look.On searchin it looks how I'd expect in the attachment and I found this in the article:https://www.howtogeek.com/335712/update-why-you-shouldnt-use-waterfox-pale-moon-or-basilisk/QuotePerformance improvements?That sounds likesnakeoilright there.I know with a release I was looking at some years ago they started to embed flash player.Just to display the Google front page, with no animations it took all the cpu time up.If I close the flash player down, cpu times goes down to nothing and I get redirected to a fancy Firefox error message page to reload the page even though there was nothing wrong or on the page that required flash player. Refreshing the page loaded it up again. That's why I couldn't stand it any longer. All because I close down the built flash player when it wasn't needed as it causing issues. Also at the time it wouldn't allow me to connect to my routers and other stuff by making an exception with the certificates.Chrome seemed more efficient then so I use that and the old Firefox 22.I'll test out that Pale Moon and see if I can get it how I want.

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2018, 06:15:50 pm
content: Yeah, while it was forked from Mozilla the code is continually updated and improved. It is not "older code" at all. I switched because they maintain the original style fully customizable look that was taken away by the Firefox people years ago. I don't like the australis interface at all.Flash player may not work without messing with the config, or at all, due to security risks. Almost nobody uses Flash these days. I haven't had it installed on any computer since around 2012.