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DVDR_Dog

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Looking for a good web (non-YouTube) video downloader. I know it's kind of a whack-a-mole trying to find a good all-purpose web downloader.
Currently using iTube Go for YouTube, works great. Seems like those on-line download sites are disappearing, DMCA problems or trying to go paywall only. So does such a program that's reliable exist? What's your experience?
 
I really like yt-dlp. It is a YT downloader but it also downloads video from just about any other site you can think of. It is a command-line tool so it's for more advanced users which I know you are. When coupled with ffmpeg it's an extremely powerful tool. I post a lot of clips on social media and yt-dlp allows me to download from timestamp to timestamp. I created a .bat file with several templates commented out. So depending on what I want to do I just uncomment the line and add the URL save it and run the .bat file. You can grad just the audio and choose what file type you want along with quality. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
 
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