Okay, so i have a playlist of over 100 videos on Youtube that i want to watch. Im going away and would like to download them all so i can watch during my 6 hour flight. Can anyone tell me of a piece of freeware which will allow me to do this that ISN'T a scam of some sort or another. Really appreciate the help, my computer is now likely crawling with malware and junk software from failed attempts lol.
Youtube-dl will do what you want. It is a command line program. You will also need ffmpeg so it can combine the audio and video streams. The way I have youtube-dl configured is that I put a file in my user directory called "youtube-dl.conf" with the following contents: Code: -f 299+bestaudio/137+bestaudio/268+bestaudio/136+bestaudio/135+bestaudio/134+bestaudio/133+bestaudio -a vids.txt -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --restrict-filenames The string of numbers and "+bestaudio" limit it to 1080p video streams, and whatever the best audio is. The bit starting at "-o" onwards is to name the file in a certain way without special characters because it caused a couple issues with ffmpeg. I also have it set to read URLs from a file called vids.txt in the same directory as youtube-dl. All I need do is put the video or playlist addresses in the file and run the program. One thing I would suggest is to open a command prompt in the directory of youtube-dl and run "youtube-dl.exe -h > help.txt". It'll dump all the command line options to a text file.
Thanks for the help guys took a look at both but went for JDownloader as it was much easier to use, thanks again for the help.
