[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from vario...
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Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms
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.
Author : sanusihassan
Score : 53 points
Date : 2025-01-15 20:30 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.saveplays.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.saveplays.com)
| gear54rus wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| thank you so much, these are the words I needed to keep working
| on this tool.
| boraturan wrote:
| yt-dlp wrapper?
| sanusihassan wrote:
| not totally, I used yt_dlp for the Twitter downloader and the
| YouTube downloader
| libpcap wrote:
| Any plan to make that a Chrome extension?
| sanusihassan wrote:
| Most of the time, I look for online tools to download media,
| but a Chrome extension could also be a good idea too.
| teach wrote:
| How does this differ from something like yt-dlp? I assume that's
| what you use under the hood.
| stunnAR wrote:
| B0rken. . Gives me the following error: Access to rr2---sn-
| vgqsrnek.googlevideo.com was denied.
|
| You don't have authorisation to view this page.
|
| HTTP Error 403
| dzek69 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| qthedoc wrote:
| bless up, I've been looking for this
| sanusihassan wrote:
| thank you!
| sharpshadow wrote:
| Keep it up there are never enough media downloaders online,
| somehow they always fade away into oblivion.
| xnx wrote:
| I'm increasingly suspicious that Java applets were removed from
| the browser so it wouldn't be easy for non-nerds to easily run
| tools like yt-dlp from their browser.
| apfsx wrote:
| How about like 10-15 years ago when everybody and their mother
| could spin up a RAT and do drive-by installations with a
| webpage?
| 01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote:
| I would think the big factor for running yt-dlp in a browser
| would be CORS, not the language used to implement the
| downloader?
| xnx wrote:
| Yes, and other limitations of network access that Java
| applets did not have.
| duskwuff wrote:
| Java had restrictions on cross-domain access just like
| Javascript does and Flash did.
|
| Users could grant applets additional permissions - but that
| also granted them _local_ permissions (like reading files)
| which were unambiguously a security risk.
| anomaly_ wrote:
| https://cobalt.tools/ is also pretty good
| derkades wrote:
| this is a good service for those who cannot use yt-dlp on the
| command line. However I am turned off by the AI generated images,
| they are very odd and have nothing to do with the website. Also
| some of the text reads like AI marketing speak
| frankdenbow wrote:
| Been using http://getrealnice.com which is pretty simple and
| clean
| devops000 wrote:
| Loom downloader is also useful. You cannot download a Loom if you
| are not premium.
| bouillebasset wrote:
| Can we get pornhub/eporner support too? :)
| cloudking wrote:
| What's the legality of tools like this?
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