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Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms

68 points by sanusihassan 2 days ago | 35 comments

My goal is to create a free media downloader that doesn't bother you. friendly, efficient, and has no paywalls or anything like that.

I've been working on that for the last 3 weeks or so, it's not perfect yet, but it works, and I'm really excited to share it.

dzek69 2 days ago

You can't post direct links you get from youtube on your server to the users, they will get 403 most often if they use these links from different IP.

Heck, you even have the IP in the link itself :) 2605:a140:2236:8761::1

Also for protected media, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk it only gives 360p and audio this way. Far from 4K you promise.

sanusihassan 2 days ago

I was hesitant to open the link, thought it was a rick-roll. I've been working on the other downloaders, and I guess YouTube is one of the most used platforms, a lot of people are asking me to fix the youtube-downloader, I think I'll start working on that, thanks for bringing it up.

Obscurity4340 2 days ago

Where can one learn how to do this and all the mechanics of how its done? One of my greatest fears is not having good YT streaming and downloading solutions in the future :(

HenryBemis 2 days ago

I use Firefox and I see (on the player's settings) that it goes as high as 1080. The addon of my InternetDownloadManager also goes as high as 1080.

teach 2 days ago

How does this differ from something like yt-dlp? I assume that's what you use under the hood.

rasz 2 days ago

yt-dlp actually works for YT.

Saris 2 days ago

Ease of use probably.

sharpshadow 2 days ago

Keep it up there are never enough media downloaders online, somehow they always fade away into oblivion.

gear54rus 2 days ago

So does it support downloading something that requires a specific account? This sounds like a job for a browser extension and not a website.

Otherwise a very good idea and definitely necessary in today's world.

sanusihassan 2 days ago

thank you so much, these are the words I needed to keep working on this tool.