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reader suggestions for Youtube Downloads pour in...

BrikoX suggested Cobalt.tools
Which has the source code here: https://github.com/wukko/cobalt

One of our community moderators VidarReturns loves Youtube-DLP on Android with Termux using a script he made.  He was kind enough to open source his script to do so:  
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/termux-url-opener
Thanks Vidar!  Check him out on Nostr:
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Another community bro Mister_Monster recommends Ytdlnis, which is also an Android front-end for the command-line YT-DLP. It can be gotten using Obtainium,
https://github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis
As well as the IzzyOnDroid f-droid repo. Shout-out to Mister_Monster's Nostr,
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Some of our other Nostr readers suggested put.io for speed and convenience, but keep in mind its not open source.

One of our readers on Session sent savefrom.net, which is NOT private it’s got big tech, but he said quote: “if you just add “ss” in front of the domain, it takes you to “savefrom.net” for downloading. So, if the video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClUjjWjevB0
you would just add “ss” in front of youtube.com, so it would look like this:
https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=ClUjjWjevB0
And that allows for a download with no addon or plugin required.”

Shout-out everyone whose been contributing!