Go to your favorite streaming site
Simple press F12
Go to Network
Select XHR (XMLHttpRequest)
Filter URLs for m3u8
- If you find more than one, just test them out, you will soon find the trick on your own :)
Copy the URL
Open a terminal and type yt-dlp <your-copied-link>

Do it Ethically

Some may call us pirates, which I find really cool

But the true evil Pirates/criminals are the ones that keep the power to themselves and don't share it with others

Information is the only true power, and it should be free(free as in free speech) for all.

Share your own tips & tricks in the comments if you want!

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[–] roxy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

My fellow crewmen, yt-dlp is great but you don't need it if you have vlc installed on your pc, you could just open Convert / Save function (Ctrl + R for shortcut), click the "Network" tab", paste the hls (m3u8) or dash (mpd) link and save it as you normally would.

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[–] Soltros@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This doesn't have to do with the topic at hand, but it's just so cool being able to directly reference sites and ways to download on Lemmy, rather than dancing around the topic on Reddit.

[–] SeanTheLawn@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is what Reddit was like in the golden era, ~2010-2014ish

[–] Captain_Wtv@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It changed after they banned r/megalinks. I remember the day. The piracy sub purged content around that time. Then 2-3 years later the sports streaming subs went down.

[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Until copyright owners start banging on providers of those who host these instances sadly. Give it a few years and we will be back there

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Spotdl for downloading Spotify music. It's amazing also

[–] NOOBMASTER@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have VideoDownloadHelper addon for Firefox, and most of the time it works. There are some exceptions of course, where it cannot download the video. But I love finding out new ways to do it, in case the old ways fail one day. Good post, man!

[–] equalszero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks!

It's a must have add on, but it's still just an add on, we should know the basics of what's happening behind the scenes to sail the 7 seas.

The reason I posted that is to inspire some of you in creating fancy scripts that can easily do more than just downloading one video.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Last time I tried downloading a yt video with it and it didn't work. Been using yt-dlp now and it's magic.

[–] Audalin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Alternatively, ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,crypto,data,https,tls,tcp -stats -i <URL.m3u8> -codec copy <FILE.mp4>.

Also, some m3u8's are just files containing redirects to other m3u8's in various resolutions. You might want to extract the one you need and download that.

[–] casta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You are the only ~~person~~ legend who, with this command, has allowed me to download a video from a shitty website that "breaks" the movies/series into small pieces. THANK YOU

EDIT: Movie, not Film

[–] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This works only for websites that don't use DRM, such as Widevine. But there're guides to decrypt the videos anyways. Tough luck with Widevine L1 tho.

[–] equalszero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Use firefox with arkenfox, then you wont have to enable DRM to stream videos

[–] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's not how it works. They can choose to fall back to unprotected videos, sure. But key players support DRM already, so why care about the rest? Netflix serves you 4K video only if your browser supports DRM. Heck, even YouTube requires DRM to watch movies.

[–] dbemol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

A r/piracy post that is actually useful? A sign of the times

[–] anonynorbi@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you for this awesome information! I agree with the statement about sharing the power and that information should be free (as in speech) for all. Let's make internet a better place!

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Information is Ammunition

[–] kamin@lemmy.kghorvath.com 1 points 2 years ago

JDownloader has handled just about everything I've thrown at it

[–] IIOrochiII@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for tutorial

[–] QuestioningEspecialy@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Xtreme Download Manager lets you do this with ease (and more) and can check for the latest yt-dlp version before downloading on its own.

MPC-HC lets you play and download YouTube videos using yt-dlp.

[–] Prollol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

@The person who said one can use VLC to download m3u8 links, I tried this multiple times already, but sadly the resulting files were never complete. Either the video was cut off or the audio missing or the like. I used VLC on Windows.

[–] PCChipsM922U@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

There is also yt-dlg, one of the frontends for youtube-dl or yt-dlp.

https://github.com/yt-dlg/yt-dlg

[–] deepfake@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there any way to save this post for later?

[–] Maximilious@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

In kbin if you updoot it, it will show up in your profile. Not sure if there's another way in kbin atm as I'm still learning

[–] Captain_Shoe@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any website? Including all the streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, etc?

[–] samwise@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

https://cdm-project.com/

They have a lot of good tools and guides for getting setup to pull drm encrypted streams. You’ll need access to an android device that has root to be able to pull drm keys from. It took me a bit to figure out how to get it setup. They had to remove the all in one setup page so the software is outdated but I followed this (https://web.archive.org/web/20230315101847/https://cdm-project.com/cdm-tools/how-to) and just searched for the latest versions of the software they reference and got it working to download off disney+ and wowpresentsplus

[+] dark@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

It is, I've been using it for years now.

[–] ruffletuss@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yt-dlp is legit. It's a fork of the yt-dl project, adding in a few extra features. yt-dl itself is used in a number of open-source projects like NewPipe.

yt-dlp is also an open-source project, with its source code available on GitHub for everyone to scrutinise. If it had malware bundled in it, it would have been easily identified by users.

You can try a GUI for yt-dlp here. I only use the command-line version so I won't be of much help with it, but lmk if you run into any trouble.

You could alternatively use Jdownloader2. It's an amazing all-in-one downloader. Just copy the link of the YouTube video, and it'll automatically pick up the video you'd like to download. You can change the quality of the video to download and even download the subtitles, thumbnail and description too. For music, you can choose to only keep the audio track in the m4a, opus or ogg format. Here's a video guide to get it installed and running.

[–] hydra2023@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

+1 for JDownloader, such a good program, been using it for 10+ years

[–] ondoyant@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you can download it from all linux package managers i've tried. not sure if linux counts as malware or not.

[–] Protowalker@beehaw.org -1 points 2 years ago

Linux is definitely malware. I installed it and I haven't been able to use my computer since

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