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Reviews for Simple video downloader

Simple video downloader by Disco🕺Dave

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  • by HI, 2 days ago
    This extension requires a kitchen sink of externally managed software, and is by no means self contained. It also requires a mile long python script running a local webserver to do anything.

    I was unable to get any of it to work, as it conflicts with an existing web server running on localhost.
    There does not appear to be provision to change the port in the extension that I could find.
    I was able to find the initializer inside the script itself, but that is useless as the (browser) extension still appears to be using 8080.
    This is by no means quick and easy to use, it is more akin to an enormous hammer where every website is a nail (including your own).
  • by peppersgc, 5 days ago
    Fails on every video.

    🚀 Download started 🪐 2025-02-27 13:11:45,679
    🌍 URL: uRrRR-96fp0 (Video ID only. Mozilla doesn't allow URLs in reviews)
    🎧 Audio only?: False
    🔎 Getting filename/playlist info ...
    ❌ No video found 2025-02-27 13:11:46,303

    Developer response

    posted 5 days ago
    Reply 3 | 28 Feb:

    I really want to help you but I've just done a fresh install on a new machine and it works perfectly there too (just like on my machine).

    It's a shame that my new little extension is sitting here with a lone 1-star review when it's working fine for me and I replied to your first (since updated) comment within an hour - but anyway, the main thing is that I'd very much like to get it working for you too. However, without being able to reproduce your error, I can't think of what might be causing it.

    So please keep updating your reply or, much better still, leave a message at github dot com/FarmLox/Simple/issues.

    I'm happy to make a temporary version with more verbose logging which would probably show what's happening. But you'll have to go over to that Github page so we can get it done. I'd really appreciate it if you can spare the time; you might be helping more people out - and helping me make sure the thing is robust.

    Reply 2 | 27 Feb:
    Thanks again for the update. Could you please create an 'issue' at github dot com/FarmLox/Simple/issues because I can't reproduce what's happening. It would be easier to talk over there.

    That video (if that's a YT ID) downloads fine for me:

    🌍 URL: [YT]?v=uRrRR-96fp0
    🎧 Audio only?: False
    🔎 Getting filename/playlist info ...
    🗃️ Downloading (filename may be temporarily sanitised):
    　 You Can’t Build a Better $69 Gaming PC
    🚀 Done 💥 2025-02-27 20:49:37,502
    📺 You Can’t Build a Better $69 Gaming PC.mkv (183.70 MB

    Reply 1 | 27 Feb:
    Thanks very much for reporting this. I hadn't checked the download links because I already have that file and it works fine for me. I've fixed the links now.