Same thing when I use to want to download photos from instagram for... uh... personal research.
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025
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I haven't had to do this in awhile so I can't recommend the best downloader for this job... But I will say that this is the sort of thing where you absolutely need to have a good adblocker
yt-dlp. Works right from the command line, no sketchy sites, on linux you can probably install it from your package manager
Well damn, guess I'm still windows-brained, never thought that there'd be a package for that!
On firefox: shift + right click -> save video as
Some say there’s an allow right click extension needed to bring it back for YouTube
Alternatively yt-dlp
The save as option is greyed out for me. I've even inspected the element, removed a class="nodownload", but no dice
Actually one of the steps is always offering downlaoder EXE to get the fucking video...
If anyone looking for Android app. It's flkay for sites other than youtube, but do give it a try
I checked soundcloud is working.