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Written by GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 2024-09-01 at 11:47

Seal: a fully featured YouTube downloader for Android based on yt-dlp

https://lemmy.ml/post/19811329

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Written by RBG on 2024-09-01 at 12:35

It’s a really good app, been using it for a few years now on and off. Very user friendly interface.

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Written by GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org on 2024-09-01 at 12:46

F-Droid link for the lazy:

f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/

Definitely going to check this out. I’ve been using yt-dlp via command line in Termux but that experience is less than ideal.

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Written by Eheran@lemmy.world on 2024-09-01 at 14:03

What is the advantage to Newpipe? On the PC I know why yt-dlp is king, but as an app?

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Written by GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 2024-09-01 at 15:11

Newpipe is a very different kind of app. This one is a downloader. You can’t watch YouTube videos using it.

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Written by Eheran@lemmy.world on 2024-09-01 at 16:07

Yes, exactly, you can do both with Newpipe. So what is the advantage of this?

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Written by Walking Coffin on 2024-09-01 at 16:37

The quality of the tool. Newpipe is maibly here to watch content. Sure, it has the ability to download said content but not in a granular maner.

Its like climbing mountains in cheap sandals or doing digital paintings in paint. Yt-dlp has a lot of options to get exactly what you want. Seal gives a simple interface which in itself has a bit more than what Newpipe has. The real power of Seal comes from the custom commands. Said commands being the ones you would use in your terminal or scripts using yt-dlp directly without a frontend.

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Written by GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 2024-09-01 at 16:58

Better UI, many more downloading related features and options, probably less trackable connections to YouTube.

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Written by Eheran@lemmy.world on 2024-09-01 at 17:22

Ah, got it, thank you. Now I just need a source of YouTube links to download on my phone :D

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Written by GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 2024-09-01 at 17:31

You can use any source you like. You can even use it to check random YouTube links you find in articles and stuff with probably less tracking too (but you might have to modify the links to the standard form).

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Written by VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz on 2024-09-01 at 19:14

You can download videos and cut off sponsored moments in the video with sponsorblock.

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Written by VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works on 2024-09-01 at 14:33

Works well combined with revanced

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Written by scorp@lemmy.ml on 2024-09-01 at 15:46

i use Revanced + Seal

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Written by Kumikommunism [they/them] on 2024-09-01 at 17:19

YTDLnis is better, in my opinion.

github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis

Doesn’t look quite as pretty (still looks good though) but the downloading menu has every option in an easy place. I really don’t like how Seal hides all the important options for the sake of simplicity.

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