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Mornin'

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@Memor-X hello

watup peeps

Hello, Hakase

does anyone have a working firefox extension/userscript to download reddit's v.reddit videos with sound into mp4s or mkvs like you'd normally right-click a gif or embedded html5 video and just save like a normal person would?

I'm really considering writing an extension and publishing it on AMO if it doesn't exist yet

ummmm...

my next question would be "does anyone have a tutorial/demo extension source that just compiles for me to test and modify"

Good luck with that...

because reddit stores video and audio separately (urls are different) I guess we'll need to call local installation of FFMPEG to combine them into one file

I wonder if that's possible via extensions

worst case I'll have to write a context menu extension or a js userscript that sends the url to a locally running c# app listening to a local address and port for these commands, and do it c# way but that's dumb

A starting point @Hakase greasyfork.org/en/scripts/39373-reddit-video-downloader

@Dimitrimx oh thanks

Beyond that, there seem to be some desktop apps and web clients. Which does hint to the fact you likely need to combine it using ffmpeg

I'm not against ffmpeg I just don't know if extensions allow to call random exes like that

basically all I need is a way to add "save as..." into context menu when clicking these vids, to save like a normal image/gif/vid to a specific path

then I'll be able to work it out via c# app or something

doesn't have to be all js

Note that for "Complete YouTube Saver", even though it's not stated anywhere, you can just put the ffmpeg.exe in the Firefox profile folder. The only thing is, in order for it to know to look in the profile folder, you first have to set the about:config preference "extensions.cys.ffmpeg.dir" to any folder path (such as C:\) - this will work even if ffmpeg.exe is not located there or if your Firefox profile is on a completely different drive.

huh

So apparently you can use ffmpeg.exe, if it's located in the profile folder

the script itself just loads the video in a tab, doesn't initiate the "save as..." dialogue

Yeah, I am combining some resources here xd

The few working examples I found where not really open sourced.

@Hakase could try youtube-dl. on the list of supported sites it lists reddit and if you have ffmpeg it'll automatically use it to merge the files (since you can download audio and video separately on youtube)

@TheMattbat999 hi

@Memor-X doesn't do audio automatically

my primary inconvenience is that I have no way to right-click > save as... > pick target file path

with ydl I have to right-click > copy link location and then Win+R > youtube-dl [ctrl-v] [enter]

and it saves god knows to where

I have to then search for the file among 3 possible directories

I'd write to Firefox forums to fix this as a bug but they're aliens from another world and don't speak normal language

@Hakase youtube-dl will defaultly download to the same directory as youtube-dl from my understanding unless you specify the directory

there isn't a way to get the urls via javascript?

because i have a PHP and Powershell Scripts what runs youtube-dl using a .txt url list. if you can get the video and audio files from the site via javascript it's just a little extra work to modify the powershell script to then kick off ffmpeg to merge the files if it doesn't merge automatically

Function Write-Log($msg)
{
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Gray "[LOG] - ${msg}"
}
Function Write-Warning($msg)
{
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "[WARNING] - ${msg}"
}
Function Write-Error($msg)
{
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red "[ERROR] - ${msg}"
}
Function Write-Success($msg)
{
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "[DONE] - ${msg}"
}

cls

$downloaded = 0
$retry = 0
$failed = 0

#$format = "test/[%(uploader)s] %(title)s-(%(display_id)s)-(%(duration)s).%(ext)s"
$format = "Playlist/_%(uploader)s/[%(uploader)s] %(title)s-(%(display_id)s)-(%(duration)s).%(ext)s"

^ that's the powershell though it's tailored for just downloading from youtube

the detection of when a video has been download could do with some work since it'll say Playlists failed to download

^ pixiv.net/en/artworks/70965632

^ pixiv.net/en/artworks/76120523