You can use youtube-dl (a wonderful command line utility available eg on home-br...

noir_lord · on Nov 25, 2019

Works great for music as well...allegedly.

Some genres are very popular on YouTube but not elsewhere (relatively), New Retro Wave been an example that comes to mind, good programming music.

tanderson92 · on Nov 25, 2019

It also works for Facebook (!), though FB keeps changing the API / keys so make sure to keep an updated youtube-dl.

codetrotter · on Nov 25, 2019

> It also works for Facebook (!)

People often assume that youtube-dl only works with YouTube because of the name, but it actually works with a really huge amount of sites, including Vimeo and Twitch.

You can see the full list of extractors that they have in the source here:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...

rdc12 · on Nov 26, 2019

I have also found it works pretty well (works 80% to 90% of the time), at fetching videos from random websites that self host a video

userbinator · on Nov 26, 2019

Perhaps they should just rename it to something more generic like "video-dl", but then again I suspect its primary use is for YouTube and the other sites are just "extras" it grew over time.

rdc12 · on Nov 25, 2019

youtube also breaks on youtube-dl, every few months. Fortunately it becomes very obvious when a breaking change has occurred.

pbhjpbhj · on Nov 25, 2019

I assume such breaks are created on purpose by YouTube to reduce downloads and similar undesirable (to YouTube) usage?