alt Hacker NewsBTW the year is 2026 and we've got LLMs, is there, at long last, an easy way to have an YouTube downloader I can run in a container (say with Podman) that actually works?
Do I need to be logged in with a Google account for it to work?
I always, since decades I want to say, ran into troubles whenever I download Youtube vids (no matter which tool I use, yt-dlp or other). It works, then doesn't anymore.
Are you simply, reliably, downloading Youtube vids? How? From a VM? From a container? From your main machine while being logged on?
P.S: congrats to the guys at Google, you sure made that hard
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sampullman • today at 2:52 PM
Somebody is doing it, given all the ad ridden free YouTube download sites that exist.
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You always had to keep whatever youtube video downloader you were using updated at a minimum. For a good while login cookies were only required for downloading restricted videos (whatever youtube considered 18+). Now you need half a web browser to do anything and the update cadence is even crazier.