Notes.
What breaks when you download video, why it breaks, and what actually fixes it. Written while building a downloader, so the answers are the ones that had to work.
- A free Downie alternative — and when you should just buy Downie
- Archive a YouTube channel, and keep it in sync
- Download a whole YouTube playlist on a Mac — and re-run it safely
- Download one part of a YouTube video, not the whole thing
- Download YouTube subtitles as SRT, without the video
- Get the audio out of a YouTube video without re-encoding it
- Is it legal to download YouTube videos?
- Pulltube: what you're actually paying for, and the free equivalent
- The free YouTube downloaders for Mac, honestly
- The yt-dlp flags worth knowing on a Mac
- What 4K Video Downloader's free tier actually limits
- What an online YouTube downloader does with your link
- Your 4K YouTube download won't open in QuickTime. Here's why.
- yt-dlp says ffmpeg is not installed — and your video has no sound
- yt-dlp: "nsig extraction failed: Some formats may be missing"
- yt-dlp: "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"
- yt-dlp: HTTP Error 403, 429, and downloads that crawl