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Hey everyone,
I’m currently trying to download a video off my Nebula account into my personal files, which it doesn’t let you do on the website itself- just store locally. I’m a bit hesistant with video downloading websites and softwares as I know they can be scams from a security perspective a lot of the time.
Are there any particular web/Windows/iOS based video downloaders that you guys can reccomend?
I’ve seen “yt-dlp” reccomended elsewhere but comments there also seemed to suggest that it maybe isn’t the most user friendly application (something about using terminals).
yt-dlp isn’t complex at all if you’re just downloading videos, it just this: yt-dlp https://link.to/the_video. That’s only for Windows though. For iOS, you could try cobalt.tools, but that only supports certain cites, and I’m not sure if Nebula is supported. Any other web-based downloaders shouldn’t be trusted
Wdym its just that? I have no clue what you’re referring to. Do you mean like what you put into a terminal? I dont even know what terminals are or how to use them. I’m reallyyyyy not a computer person is the issue here.
Grayjay has a built in video downloader and supports nebula play back. I haven’t tested nebula myself but you could check and see if the app allows you to download videos from nebula.
I was just looking at their website - at least from there it seems like the downloads are just to within the application? Not to your own external files.
On Windows, all you have to do to install it is open the Start menu, search for cmd (Command Prompt should come up), open it, and type winget install yt-dlp and hit enter. After this is finished, close and reopen Command Prompt to finish the installation. You only have to do all of this once!
From then on, when you want to download a video, you’ll open Command Prompt and, replacing the parentheses with the name of the browser you use, type yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser (brave, chrome, chromium, edge, firefox, opera, safari, vivaldi, whale) <your link here>. Telling yt-dlp which browser you’re logged into Nebula with is necessary because it needs to access your logged-in session to download the content that your subscription gives you access to. As one final example, let’s say I use Brave and want to download the latest video from Wendover Productions. All I would need to do is open Command Prompt and type yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser brave https://nebula.tv/videos/wendover-the-logistics-of-a-presidential-campaign. yt-dlp will download the video in the highest quality available, and I can find the file in my Windows user folder by going to the file explorer, clicking This PC in the sidebar, clicking on the C: drive, the Users folder, and finally on my username. If you want files to go into your Downloads folder for easier access, all you have to do is type cd Downloads into Command Prompt and hit enter before you download the file, followed by the yt-dlp command.
looked at the demo - is this basically just yt-dlp but it runs closer to a normal computer application rather than using commands like yt-dlp does? also, do i need to also have yt-dlp installed?
As to your other questions, I don’t believe installing requires admin permissions. Also, you don’t need to use the GitHub link, that first command will take care of all the installation for you.
I’m aware of the various GUIs, the problem is they’re all at vastly varying levels of development activity and feature completeness (open video downloader hasn’t been updated since 2021 and using browser cookies is far more of a hassle since it doesn’t support automatically extracting them), so I think for this single purpose just using the command line tool and remembering one command is a lot simpler.
I don’t know about this particular program, but antiviruses suck. False positives are very common which is why you get prompts like this in programs. It’s not suspicious.
IDK, I just have a policy against downloading anything with my antivirus disabled. (For reference, I have the full version of Malwarebytes.) Feels like if something says “download this! but you can’t have antivirus protection” its just opening me up to downloading something with a virus. Why would I disable the protections on my computer?
