If you install yt-dlp and make a script for downloading, then users drag and drop a link onto the script on their desktop, is this «GUI» enough to be used?
I can't seem to get its downloading of subtitles to work.
You've checked out this:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#subtitle-options
? I think I've used --write-subs and --sub-langs all and it worked as expected in the past.
@Dymonika do --list-subs first, different videos offer different subs with different names
Ummmm... I'm an impatient loser who uses a GUI, haha: https://github.com/ErrorFlynn/ytdlp-interface
I'll have to dig more into its readme, I guess...
yt-dlp is a command line tool but amazing. Works also on windows.
Just use yt-dlp. It's not hard to use. You just type yt-dlp, paste the video link, and press enter to download the highest quality version.
https://cobalt.tools is a great downloader for a lot of different sites. If you do want a desktop app, I would also recommend Parabolic.
Not sure about Facebook since authenticating for private videos is a hurdle, but for my partner who uses a mac I downloaded open video downloader which is just a foss GUI for ytdl, it also keeps ytdl up to date which is a requirement for me since I don't want to be called when it stops working. I think on windows you have to manually install msvc2010redist but besides that it seems to just work out of the box.
I'm using video download helper, an extension for firefox https://www.downloadhelper.net/ and it can download about every video from web site. At one time it was not able so it asked me to install a Companion App and with it was able to dl from anime site and all.
I use Parabolic.
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