Reviews for Simple video downloader
Simple video downloader by Disco🕺Dave
Response by Disco🕺Dave
Developer response
posted a month agoReply 3 | 31 March
tl;dr: Thank you and I have good news ... ALL your issues should be solved in the latest version (7.0) if you also update yt-dlp and install curl_cffi with this command: py -m pip install -U --pre "yt-dlp[default,curl-cffi]"
Fuller answer:
1. MP4 is now available! (Well, it's been available since the day after your review but now subtitles and SponsorBlock segments are also embedded in MP4 files.)
2. Please install curl_cffi and retest. It's likely to work magic. As I've said, I can't reproduce your problems with logins and CAPTCHAS but, reading the yt-dlp documentation, I really think that installing curl_cffi may solve your problems. If you look in the "Impersonation" section here https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#dependencies, you'll see why I think so.
Python’s default HTTP libraries have fingerprints that differ from real browsers. curl_cffi mimics browser TLS fingerprints (curl_cffi now supports Firefox impersonation in v0.10.0+), making requests appear more browser-like. It's recommended by the yt-dlp devs to be installed but is not installed as a default dependency when you run py -m pip install -U --pre "yt-dlp[default]"
I really hope this solves all your issues and I'm very grateful that you took the time to report it because I'm sure I wouldn't have introduced these things if you hadn't.
Reply 2 | 23 March
Thanks very much for reporting this. I've now added a checkbox to the popup.
"Use MP4 instead of MKV" should also give you what you want regarding MP4 files.
Reply 1 | 22 March
I'm really sorry to hear this. I had no idea about this and I can't reproduce it.
This add-on is certainly not anything malicious. I will now get onto it and try and come up with a solution to the Recaptcha/log-in and MP4 issues and hopefully come up with a fix.
tl;dr: Thank you and I have good news ... ALL your issues should be solved in the latest version (7.0) if you also update yt-dlp and install curl_cffi with this command: py -m pip install -U --pre "yt-dlp[default,curl-cffi]"
Fuller answer:
1. MP4 is now available! (Well, it's been available since the day after your review but now subtitles and SponsorBlock segments are also embedded in MP4 files.)
2. Please install curl_cffi and retest. It's likely to work magic. As I've said, I can't reproduce your problems with logins and CAPTCHAS but, reading the yt-dlp documentation, I really think that installing curl_cffi may solve your problems. If you look in the "Impersonation" section here https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#dependencies, you'll see why I think so.
Python’s default HTTP libraries have fingerprints that differ from real browsers. curl_cffi mimics browser TLS fingerprints (curl_cffi now supports Firefox impersonation in v0.10.0+), making requests appear more browser-like. It's recommended by the yt-dlp devs to be installed but is not installed as a default dependency when you run py -m pip install -U --pre "yt-dlp[default]"
I really hope this solves all your issues and I'm very grateful that you took the time to report it because I'm sure I wouldn't have introduced these things if you hadn't.
Reply 2 | 23 March
Thanks very much for reporting this. I've now added a checkbox to the popup.
"Use MP4 instead of MKV" should also give you what you want regarding MP4 files.
Reply 1 | 22 March
I'm really sorry to hear this. I had no idea about this and I can't reproduce it.
This add-on is certainly not anything malicious. I will now get onto it and try and come up with a solution to the Recaptcha/log-in and MP4 issues and hopefully come up with a fix.