I am glad I am using the unofficial portable build from videohelp.com (a site I’ve been using for what seems like 20+ years):
https://www.videohelp.com/software/JDownloader
jDownloader is a powerful tool (although its coverage scope is weaker than yt-dlp and even the Video DownloadHelper extension for FF), but the organization that makes it seems a bit sketchy. I was never able to access their “no adware in the installer” build on the official site.
Didn’t realize anyone still used jdownloader.
For certain batch uses cases, it’s still the simplest option. yt-dlp is definitely the most powerful, but for me personally, I sometimes get bogged down in the CLI UX when I am doing something non-standard (I’ve “automated” standard use cases via a WezTerm “toolbox”).
There’s a jdownloader docker container that I use and it’s actually not that bad. I can just paste in my DDL links and forget about it.
Do you use something else?
