Downloading videos from the web: tips

I have online courses from some platforms that I could share, what is the best way to download them?

Searching the web seen the extension https://cococut.net/
are there also alternatives for Firefox or better alternatives?

After I download the videos is it recommended to convert them to some other format for example with ffmpeg?

I am looking for some introductory documentation to WEB-DL or similar

Barzaria ,

Yt-dlp can use user authentication to pull videos as well. The flags are -u (username) and -p (password) . Example:
yt-dlp -u username -p password url-goes-here .
Hope this helps. The more we can rely on programs that we run on our own machines, the better. Even better if it's free software.

skar3 OP ,

Thank you i will try

jorge ,
@jorge@feddit.cl avatar

Video Downloader: Download videos from websites with an easy-to-use interface. Provides the following features:

Convert videos to MP3
Supports password-protected and private videos
Download single videos or whole playlists
Automatically selects a video format based on your quality demands

Based on yt-dlp.

https://github.com/unrud/video-downloader

skar3 OP ,

Thank you, I knew yt-dlp and this is an interesting app.
However, I was referring more to courses on platforms like Udemy where you need an account

antlion ,
@antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

In theory, yt-dlp can pull cookies from your browser to get content behind a login.

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