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It's a pity it's now hard to find an instance which allows downloads, it was nice to be able to grab things on mobile.

I use side-loaded 4K Video Downloader: https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloaderandroid-4.... Not a regular viewing client though.

This looks promising, thank you.

edit: If I end up trying this out it will have to be on a separate user profile because of the permissions.

Are you guys not super sketched out by that website? Self-hosted (and unavailable on f-droid) download (why not just use NewPipe at this point?), vague About Us page, duplicated and almost certainly fake "positive reviews" left by different outlets, etc.

Personally, i just install termux and yt-dlp. Admittedly, i am on a rooted device, but i think some additional tooling is available to give termux access to the shared user storage area.

I got sketched out when I took a closer look at it. I forgot NewPipe existed to be quite frank, it makes much more sense for me to use it instead of the linked app.

On Android, you can use Seal[1] to download YT videos locally. It also supports many other sites.

[1] https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal

NewPipe works perfectly fine for downloading videos.

https://newpipe.net/

It doesn't seem to do 4K video on my Pixel 6a - I'm only getting up to 1080p downloads.

NewPipe still works.

Because bandwidth is not cheap and there are better tools for downloading.

Either youtube-dl or newpipe.

Little aside, it’s yt-dlp now. It’s still awesome.

Another aside: youtube-dl still exists, since yt-dlp was forked from it. youtube-dl isn't that awesome, so you should use yt-dlp. It's similar to OpenOffice.org vs. LibreOffice or XFree86 vs X.org: the old one is still there, but it sucks.

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