Yea that was a bad reply, sorry.
What I mean is that is the yt-dlp command to download a video. When you install yt-dlp, you’d type a command like that into a terminal, e.g:
yt-dlp https://youtube.com/watch?v=iYJy6sCCOg0
That would download a video from youtube. That was actually such a shitty reply from me lmao, I’m sorry
You don’t need to install any dependency for the gui.
It’s been a long time ago I used it. Probably I deactivated macOS gatekeeper for using it. It’s was not notarized. I cannot test the source code but it’s a popular software with 6.5K stars in GitHub. Additionally, you don’t generally need antivirus software on modern computers.
Welcome to the community ParkerS!
ParkerS, I made a huge threads about this and as you’ll see we made a lot of progress on this exact topic. We focused on JDownloader(free and open source) as well as the most popular downloader extension for Firefox in both threads.
Lots of the super knowledgeable users on here gave their opinions:
Is it safe to install a "companion app" with a Firefox extension? - #41 by Average_Joe
JDownloader: Is It Secure? - #28 by Average_Joe
Let me know how you go!
https://cobalt.tools/ is a great mention!
Is there anyway to check if it’s secure and doesn’t send telemetry of personal user information?
Yea It’s open source
I appreciate your reply!
Where in the source code can I check that there’s no user telemetry back to someone on the Internet?
Is clipgrab ok to use?
“Download version without third-party offers”
If you don’t have advanced requirements like logging into a subscription service I’d just stick to Cobalt.
Great, are there any other options if it doesn’t work?
Is there a FOSS software that does that and is more complete (more websites)?
Cobalt didn’t work for some websites, while clipgrab did. But clipgrab might not be safe to use as it’s a donationware.
Do you have any sites in particular that you can name?
The websites are random and change all the time.
Cobalt just seems to be getting better and better!
I just came across and it’s getting a lot of attention online:
I’ve been doing more research and cobalt.tools looks great because it has an active update schedule and there’s no need to install any apps which reduces the likelihood of any security threats.
It’s open source as well of course!
EDIT:
Did you ever find a safe solution?
Dirpy and Cobalt seem safe since they don’t require any installations.