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0 pointsevan_5y ago0 comments

YouTube premium lets you “download” videos but I don’t think it doesn’t actually let you get an MP4 file. It just lets you watch the video offline.

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ls6125y ago· 2 in thread

But normal YouTube videos aren’t DRMed at all so you should be able to find the file in cleartext somewhere on your hdd

evan_OP5y ago

I don’t think you can use that feature on the web. It’s mobile app only. Maybe you can use adb to grab them off an android device but it’s not nearly as easy as youtube-dl. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were DRM’d in that scenario anyway.

makeworld5y ago

In another thread someone explained that the videos were stored in their original chunked format, so it wouldn't be that easy to just extract it.

dangoor5y ago

True. That's a good clarification to make

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