alt.hn

1/15/2025 at 8:30:30 PM

Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms

 https://www.saveplays.com/

by sanusihassan

1/15/2025 at 9:25:09 PM

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.

by dzek69

1/15/2025 at 9:43:10 PM

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.

by sanusihassan

1/15/2025 at 10:48:40 PM

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 :(

by Obscurity4340

1/15/2025 at 9:52:02 PM

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.

by HenryBemis

1/15/2025 at 8:45:24 PM

How does this differ from something like yt-dlp? I assume that's what you use under the hood.

by teach

1/15/2025 at 11:40:26 PM

Ease of use probably.

by Saris

1/16/2025 at 2:43:00 AM

yt-dlp actually works for YT.

by rasz

1/15/2025 at 9:33:01 PM

Keep it up there are never enough media downloaders online, somehow they always fade away into oblivion.

by sharpshadow

1/15/2025 at 8:37:57 PM

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.

by gear54rus

1/15/2025 at 9:07:22 PM

thank you so much, these are the words I needed to keep working on this tool.

by sanusihassan

1/15/2025 at 9:34:33 PM

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.

by xnx

1/15/2025 at 9:38:42 PM

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?

by apfsx

1/15/2025 at 11:17:43 PM

YouTube wasn’t even around when Java applets were a thing.

Also back then anything multimedia was also served via a plugin. Multimedia in the Java applet era was either streaming via Real Player, or later, via Flash.

by hnlmorg

1/15/2025 at 11:43:16 PM

Right. I'm saying that Java Applets could've put too much control into the hands of the user, so they had to be removed in 2015.

by xnx

1/16/2025 at 8:01:33 AM

Java Applets had fallen out of fashion long before then. Like a decade earlier. The only reason browsers and JRE continued to support it was because of enterprise middleware like Oracle. But for home users applets had long since been replaced by Flash.

The reason applets were unfashionable had nothing to do with control. It was because:

1. They were hard to support: there was different Java runtimes (thanks to Microsoft creating an incompatible version of Java, which eventually lead to them inventing .NET). But even with Sun Java, there are different versions of JRE and no way to guarantee a particular browser had the right version of JRE installed.

2. Insecure. I really don’t miss the days of drive by download exploits

3. Too much effort to program for. When you had Flash with its mostly drag and drop interface, why would most people want to learn Java?

4. HTML5 eventually became a thing. Meaning you didn’t even need Flash let alone Java.

5. Applets were never ported to mobile devices. Which is ironic given Java runs on a plethora of niche hardware from some types of optical storage through to Android itself. However applets themselves were strictly limited to desktop browsers. A limitation even Flash didn’t have.

Java applets were removed because it was a technological dead end. Users hated it, security teams hated it, Windows administrators hated it, and web developers didn’t even use it.

I can’t remember exactly when I fell out of love with applets but I have a feeling it was before even the 00s.

And as for your point about control, you could still do everything you described without the need for applets. It was really easy to rip streams back then (just as it still is easy now).

by hnlmorg

1/15/2025 at 9:48:44 PM

I would think the big factor for running yt-dlp in a browser would be CORS, not the language used to implement the downloader?

by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF

1/15/2025 at 10:14:58 PM

Yes, and other limitations of network access that Java applets did not have.

by xnx

1/15/2025 at 10:30:22 PM

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.

by duskwuff

1/16/2025 at 11:03:30 AM

It could be super useful but I tried to download an instagram reel and it doesn't work. https://www.instagram.com/p/DE3gmTfsUlg/?hl=fr

by dagorenouf

1/16/2025 at 8:01:58 PM

If you have time, please try again, it's still not 100% but I'll see what I can do tomorrow.

by sanusihassan

1/15/2025 at 9:11:51 PM

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

by stunnAR

1/16/2025 at 3:19:32 AM

Any way to check Instagram posts without login the account?

by terrycody

1/15/2025 at 8:40:05 PM

yt-dlp wrapper?

by boraturan

1/15/2025 at 9:01:35 PM

not totally, I used yt_dlp for the Twitter downloader and the YouTube downloader

by sanusihassan

1/15/2025 at 10:37:48 PM

What's the legality of tools like this?

by cloudking

1/15/2025 at 10:04:45 PM

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

by derkades

1/15/2025 at 10:16:54 PM

Loom downloader is also useful. You cannot download a Loom if you are not premium.

by devops000

1/15/2025 at 10:23:54 PM

Can we get pornhub/eporner support too? :)

by bouillebasset

1/16/2025 at 5:32:56 AM

No, that goes against my religion and ethics.

by sanusihassan

1/15/2025 at 8:42:01 PM

Any plan to make that a Chrome extension?

by libpcap

1/15/2025 at 9:04:04 PM

Most of the time, I look for online tools to download media, but a Chrome extension could also be a good idea too.

by sanusihassan

1/15/2025 at 9:25:47 PM

bless up, I've been looking for this

by qthedoc

1/15/2025 at 9:44:57 PM

thank you!

by sanusihassan