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  • Liked Videos and Liked Music are private playlists, they have a generic URL and you can only access them by being logged in. I have two methods to download Liked Videos:

    • Install a desktop app video downloader, most of them have the option to download an entire playlist.

    • They also have an option to add a cookies file so you can download private playlists, such as Liked Videos or Watch Later

    • Log in to YouTube in your browser

    • Export the cookies from the browser

    • Import them to the desktop app

    • Download Liked Videos

    That’s what you’re supposed to do, however i never got that to work. If it doesn’t work, you can transfer all your liked videos from the private playlist to a public playlist. Here’s what i do:

    • Create a new playlist called Downloads, and make it public; it now has its own specific URL, unlike the generic URL of Liked VIdeos

    • Install the YouTube Multiselect browser extention

    • Use Multiselect to select every video in Liked Videos and add it to Downloads

    • Use the desktop app to download the Downloads playlist

    This is how i download my private playlists like Watch Later or Liked Videos, i assume it also works for Liked Music












  • 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldIn heat
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, the way that i would do it is to look up the Wikipedia page for the movie Heat and go to the cast section.

    This is how i always look for information and it can actually be to my detriment. Like that time i went to Reddit to ask them what that movie was where time is a currency, and somebody pointed out that i could have just googled “time is money movie” and it would have immediately shown me In Time (2011).

    Also, when i want something from an app or website i will consult the alphabetical list or look for a link to click, instead of just using the search bar.

    I don’t know, somehow it never entered my brain that search bars are smart and can figure out what you meant if you use natural language. Even though they’ve been programmed that way since before i was born




  • I download youtube videos in .mp3 format very often, both for music and to listen to as podcasts. I don’t know if it’s the best method but this is how i do it:

    • Use the MultiSelect extension to select multiple videos and put them in a playlist, which i name Download. This playlist has to be public.

    • Use Open Video Downloader to download this playlist, making sure that it writes the metadata in tags. If necessary, it can also download age-restricted videos by importing cookies from your browser, i’ve done it a couple of times but it’s not convenient.

    • I pretty much leave it at that, but you could use a media tagger to add further information to the files.