(In fact, *that* was the reason youtube-dl was reinstated on GitHub after Microsoft took it down, and I assume it’s the reason yt-dlp has not been rousted so far. In the Western world, certainly, YouTube still enjoys a strongly dominant position in video-hosting and hence the ability to shape the information people can see - which is known as “manufacturing consent.” For journalists, academics, lawyers, and activists, it’s *critical* to be able to download copies of certain videos before Alphabet/Google/YouTube gets around to taking them down. YouTube has *dramatically* increased the amount of censorship it does (via outright takedowns and also by making videos it doesn’t like unfindable in search), and it no longer targets only speech that isn’t protected under the First Amendment (e.g., teaching viewers how to cook up a batch of nerve gas in their kitchens), but legitimate, protected reporting, analysis, and opinion. Technically, downloading videos violates YouTube’s terms of service, but there is a superseding issue here. Were you using FDM for downloading YouTube videos? What are your alternatives? Take a look at our previous article for more ways to download videos. Meanwhile, you can use other programs like YouTube-DL, yt-dlp, youtube-dl-gui, XDM, IDM, FireDM (formerly PyIDM). The page's disappearance does seem like a serious issue, and it remains unclear whether FDM will add support for YouTube downloads again. Here's a Web Archive version of it from April 2021. The YouTube page on FDM's site has also been pulled, and gives a 404. I mentioned earlier that the developer had to "turn off the option for YouTube", this is likely the intermediary service that was taken down. The other theory is that Free Download Manager relies on an external service for YouTube downloads, probably to parse the video links (fetch the metadata, URLs, resolution, etc.) and sends it to the program for download. It seems unlikely, since I was able to download the videos using other programs. One, something has changed on YouTube's end, which is causing the error. So why were older versions displaying the error? Clearly this error isn't specific to the version being used, so it has to be server related problems. I was manually copying the YouTube video's URL and pasting it in the program. Though I had the FDM extension installed in the browser, I wasn't using it to grab the media. That was (and still is) selected on mine, but FDM doesn't intercept ("monitor") video files as the default downloader under XP now.So, I went all the way back to version 5, and it still gave me an error, but this time it said "Parsing failure. Have you checked in FDM to make sure you are monitoring your browser? It's under Options/Download Options/Monitoring. Themaster1: that's odd - FDM was my default downloader before under Win 98, and now it isn't under XP, no matter what I've tried. Since FDM already has all the usual video file types listed under the download "Video" folder, all I had to do was set the default folder on my hard drive for the downloaded files to be saved in. I never had to set any special handling criteria before - with the "Monitor/Firefox" option selected in FDM, a plug-in was created in Firefox's "Add-ons" section. I picked "open with" and selected FDM, but when I clicked on a MPG clip URL, FDM opened but no download was done. I changed how Firefox will handle MPG files, as a trial, but the only option is to "open with" an application, not "download with". TJohns: I don't have an "Applications" tab in Firefox - the closest is under "Content", where I can configure certain file types. Since all the settings in Firefox and FDM are the same as they were in Win 98, I have to assume something in XP is different than in Win98 causing this, but what can it be? Thanks.Įdit: I just now downloaded a software app, and FDM automatically jumped in and did the download! But it still won't do a video download - WTH? I visited FDM's website and looked thru the forum there, and several people asked basically the same question - how do you make FDM the default downloader - but there were no responses. I then updated both Firefox and FDM to the latest versions, and same thing - no FDM activity, just the Firefox browser offering to do the download. Now in XP, I loaded the same version of Firefox and FDM as I had in Win 98, made sure all the settings were the same as they used to be, and now FDM doesn't do a thing when I left-click to start a download - the Firefox browser pops up, wanting to do the download. In Win98, when I wanted to download a video clip, I would left-click on the clip and the Free Download Manager (FDM) app would "intercept" the URL (keeping the Firefox browser from doing the download) and start the download. I've upgraded from Win 98SE to XP Home Ed./SP2, doing a fresh install on a new hard drive, and am in the process of reloading all my software.
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