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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Shape4985@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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[–] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How does it compare to yt-dlp?

[–] nicerdicer@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Warning, I might be wrong:

yt-dlp seems to be operated with command lines, whereas cobalt is a user interface in an opened browser tab. You paste the link of the desired video or audio source into a search bar and you can toggle different settings (bitrate, file format, video output size etc.). The desired file will be appearing as a download into your download folder.

[–] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ooh nice - if it is indeed a UI it would be perfect for my grand-aunt. We went through many such alternatives, but all stopped working after a while

[–] nicerdicer@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You might be lucky: there is a gui availiable for yt-dlp on GitHub. I just looked it up. The descripition reads:

Graphical interface for the command line tool yt-dlp, which allows users to download videos from various websites, including YouTube. It is designed to be more user-friendly and accessible for those who are not comfortable using the command line.

Link: https://github.com/dsymbol/yt-dlp-gui

Edit/addition:

There are online services availiable (for instance https://yt5s.com/en173) that basically do the same as Cobalt.tools. I assume that they don't put any emphasis on privacy tho.