Web Video Downloading

Users discuss tools, browser extensions, and methods like yt-dlp, VLC, and invidio.us to download videos from sites such as YouTube or conferences for offline viewing, especially during travel.

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kissmd • Aug 4, 2013 • View on HN

you could try vidd.io or something similar.

solardev • May 27, 2025 • View on HN

Download the video and/or find the m3u8 and stream it via VLC?

sylware • Feb 7, 2022 • View on HN

Can we have a video of this on youtube/dailymotion/vimeo/etc which we can download with yt-dlp?

oittaa • Apr 25, 2023 • View on HN

Downloading videos for offline watching. For example during flights without a wifi.

parsecs • Sep 11, 2021 • View on HN

Is there a good way to download the video streams from this? I would really like to keep an offline copy for myself.

txtsd • May 7, 2023 • View on HN

Try YouTube Revanced from https://revanced.net/

pakonsy • Jan 12, 2022 • View on HN

WatchVideoByLink is a web-app that allows you to watch, download and organize public video URLs.

Walkman • Nov 5, 2013 • View on HN

yes, but you can just download it and watch it with VLC :)

salusinarduis • Dec 20, 2022 • View on HN

This is probably a forbidden subject but is it possible to download raw mp4/whatevers with this somehow?

barosoa • Nov 14, 2017 • View on HN

No video download helper. Anyone got a good way of downloading video streams?