[pspzockerscene]

@jDoX

Adding to Jiaz' post:
JDownloader has never been a fully automated tool that makes assumptions and configures everything by itself. Instead, we prioritize customizability.
While JDownloader may not offer the ideal default settings for your use case, it is so customizable that it covers a wide range of other users' needs (and yours too if you configure it according to your needs).

More about automating default behavior:
Regarding YouTube, one could argue that since it's a video platform, JDownloader should, by default, only provide the user with the video itself—excluding audio, thumbnails, subtitles, or descriptions. However, this would not align with our focus on flexibility and user choice.

Coming back to your post:

Originally Posted by jDoX

JDownloader for Mac downloads YouTube videos that VLC can play, but the Mac Finder or PowerPoint cannot play (codec unavailable).

You are assuming that users always intend to play the downloaded videos on the same device they used for downloading. In reality, many users play their videos on other devices, such as smart TVs, or stream them via their NAS.

Fun fact: As a programmer, I do of course always assume that people are using the only good video player, VLC media player :D

Originally Posted by jDoX

Yet applications like Downie do not have such problems.

This is more of a convenience issue rather than a fundamental problem. Additionally, "Downie" is paid software, whereas JDownloader is completely free.

Where I agree with you:
For highly popular websites like YouTube (or upon first launching the application), JDownloader could offer a setup wizard that asks users about their video download preferences.

[weigeloveu]

I want to download all the videos from this channel, but the number of videos is too large, resulting in a "too many requests" error. How can I avoid this?
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[Jiaz]

@jDoX: I deleted your posts by accident, sorry. You have to login with your account via cookie method,see https://support.jdownloader.org/de/k...n-instructions

[snuffleupagus]

So I'm trying to download an entire channel content

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it does a good job on most but some say that the page is offline. T

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This is not the case. I looked at the offline content line items and searched the title of the video and was able to find and load it in the browser And when I copy them back into jdownloader those offline contents load up as downloadable.

Might be some throttling on the YouTube side.

It would be great if I could get the channel download or is there anyway to export the offline content links to a text file so I can reprocess them?


update: seems inconsistent... first run had 116 content offline now it is only 103 but those offline aren't offline. If you search for the title and copy the url again it downloads that content. The second time.

[Xirix]

Cookie method's not quite working for me right now, I opened a new firefox session, went to youtube, exported cookies, but I'm stuck on the Temp. disabled status in account manager.

20.03.25 08.28.08 <--> 20.03.25 08.30.09 jdlog://4889411370661/

[Jiaz]

@Xirix: cookies don't look like fresh session. Can you please create new session, export/import cookies and create new log

[pspzockerscene]

Originally Posted by weigeloveu

I want to download all the videos from this channel, but the number of videos is too large, resulting in a "too many requests" error. How can I avoid this?

1. Please provide a debug-log.
Log instructions:
https://support.jdownloader.org/know...d-session-logs


2. If we can't get it working the automatic way, feel free to manually collect the links of that channel, see:
https://support.jdownloader.org/know...orted-websites

[pspzockerscene]

Merged YT threads.

@snuffleupagus
Please provide a debug-log.
Log instructions:
https://support.jdownloader.org/know...d-session-logs