Ability to Download Videos

[ghost]

Like Invidious and NewPipe, which provide Download option for Videos - very customizable with Audio and Video Separately with Different Quality.

I think that this could be done easily as Piped backend is made by NewPipe Extractor which has this functionality.

@FireMasterK If you think not to have over load on the server. I think you can proxy or use Invidious Downlad URL. If you think of using Invidious URL. Then be sure to check that #TeamPiped/Piped-Redirects#11 this issue might conflict the URL's.

[FireMasterK]

If this is ever added, it would be in a way where you can't exactly download it as a file, unless shaka-player allows that: https://shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/tutorial-offline.html

[ghost]

I cannot understand. Could you elaborate ?

[FireMasterK]

You will be able to watch downloaded videos only on the website.

[Mhowser]

Just use YouTube-dl.

[FireMasterK]

Or yt-dlp, which is a fork.

[ghost]

You will be able to watch downloaded videos only on the website.

Okay, That's why I asked how about providing Download URL's fetched from your Invidious instance - Invidious.kavin.rocks and just place them here under downloads ?

[tankmohit]

@FireMasterK
I manually traversed through piped api response and tried to save a video url and I was able to download a video.

I think it could be possible to add download button which points to url fetched by api.

[vehosah]

Just use YouTube-dl.

Sorry I can't use it, because I don't know python

[ghost]

How about Integrating AllTubeDownload - https://github.com/Rudloff/alltube ?

[ghost]

It is best AFAIK because instead of like Invidious for formats above 720p it doesn't split them into Video and Audio separately instead just like a traditional Video. Which will make this easy.

[ghost]

I'm in a geolocation where google services are blocked. Piped instances work great. Sadly, yt-dl or yt-dlp doesn't work, caz they just use ?v= query from piped url & use same old youtube servers as backend.

Is there any workaround for this ?

[ghost]

I manually traversed through piped api response and tried to save a video url and I was able to download a video.

@tankmohit Could you share how you did it mate ?

I think it could be possible to add download button which points to url fetched by api.

But I think it depends on whether the streams are video only & audio only seperated. If that's the case, then it's not possible, caz you need some kind of merging mechanism or ffmpeg.

[IkelAtomig]

We need to put in ffmpeg

[ghost]

We need to put in ffmpeg

Actually, it "is" possible to use ffmpeg's stream map subsegment on node js. Many online youtube downloader sites actually do stream merge on the fly.

[severtheskyline]

Any updates on this issue? I feel it's way overdue

[SmartPhoneLover]

I'm interested on that feature as well.

[Bnyro]

Closing as it's out of scope for Piped, there are downloaders that use Piped though, mentioned in the README.

[DWolf-19]

Why this out of scope? It would be awesome to have ability to download videos directly from the web app.