Trying to convert youtube videos to mp3 files on my phone, the website I had been doing it on is down and all the alternatives are scam sites and virus links. Any alts you know?
Edit: i have an iPhone, I would prefer a browser based converter if possible.
Don’t be a newb. Learn the command line and use yt-dlp.
I’m using yt-dlp. Its a command line app, but quite easy to use. It’s primary function is downloading entire videos, but it can rip out audio into various formats as well.
Edit: I’m apparently bad at reading, didn’t notice you’re looking for a phone app. NewPipe has has a video and audio download functions.
I should mention it’s for an iPhone specifically. I used to use web based converters but they are taken down
You can absolutely use yt-dlp on iPhone though via a-shell.
You can just install it and then type pip install yt-dlp.
We do this.
Can yt-dlp download adult restrictioned videos?
Yes but you will have to take extra steps to supply a valid cookie from a signed in account: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11296#issuecomment-2466538349
Thanks for the info.
I’ll admit I haven’t checked, but I haven’t run into any restrictions so far
- Paste link
- Select preset
- Run
- Press “Download” link inside the black box
Try cobalt.tools. It does what you want to do inside a browser tab (although I only used it on desktop so far), but it might work with an IPhone as well. You can convert YouTube links into either mp3, ogg, wave and opus files (with various bitrates), or mp4 or webm video files (with various resulutions). I use it constantly.
It does. Thank you.
can recommend YTDLnis, as others have. If web-based is important to you, cobalt dot tools seems great and trustworthy.
Banger, cobalt works great, thank you so much.
Seal GUI android frontend for yt-dlp and can convert to mp3 https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/
Android GUI for yt-dlp, which can download Videos from many websites. You can only dowload audio aswell
self-host a downloader/extractor site for your own use, behind authentication (so it’s for you only, not randoms off the internet that ‘find’ it).
I’m using a browser plugin called DownloadHelper but I haven’t checked if the iPhone version of the browser supports the plugin or not
If it wasn’t on your phone, I would point to yt-dlp: simply type
yt-dlp -F <Youtube URL>to list the available formats, thenyt-dsp -f <format ID> <Youtube URL>to download the audio in the format of your choice:E.g.:
$ yt-dlp -F https://youtu.be/xWUCsE4IM_c [youtube] Extracting URL: https://youtu.be/xWUCsE4IM_c [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading webpage [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading ios player API JSON [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading android player API JSON [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading player 6e1dd460 WARNING: [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading m3u8 information [info] Available formats for xWUCsE4IM_c: ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS CH │ FILESIZE TBR PROTO │ VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── sb2 mhtml 48x27 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard sb1 mhtml 80x45 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard sb0 mhtml 160x90 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard 233 mp4 audio only │ m3u8 │ audio only unknown Default 234 mp4 audio only │ m3u8 │ audio only unknown Default 139 m4a audio only 2 │ 3.16MiB 49k https │ audio only mp4a.40.5 49k 22k low, m4a_dash 140 m4a audio only 2 │ 8.38MiB 129k https │ audio only mp4a.40.2 129k 44k medium, m4a_dash 269 mp4 256x144 25 │ ~ 11.11MiB 172k m3u8 │ avc1.4D400C 172k video only 160 mp4 256x144 25 │ 4.08MiB 63k https │ avc1.4D400C 63k video only 144p, mp4_dash 230 mp4 640x360 25 │ ~ 51.95MiB 803k m3u8 │ avc1.4D401E 803k video only 134 mp4 640x360 25 │ 13.88MiB 215k https │ avc1.4D401E 215k video only 360p, mp4_dash 605 mp4 640x360 25 │ ~ 37.67MiB 582k m3u8 │ vp09.00.21.08 582k video only 232 mp4 1280x720 25 │ ~166.26MiB 2569k m3u8 │ avc1.4D401F 2569k video only 136 mp4 1280x720 25 │ 52.13MiB 806k https │ avc1.4D401F 806k video only 720p, mp4_dash 270 mp4 1920x1080 25 │ ~306.16MiB 4730k m3u8 │ avc1.640028 4730k video only 137 mp4 1920x1080 25 │ 159.35MiB 2462k https │ avc1.640028 2462k video only 1080p, mp4_dash $ yt-dlp -f 140 https://youtu.be/xWUCsE4IM_c [youtube] Extracting URL: https://youtu.be/xWUCsE4IM_c [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading webpage [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading ios player API JSON [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading android player API JSON [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading player 6e1dd460 WARNING: [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading m3u8 information [info] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading 1 format(s): 140interactive mode is nice and basically combines those steps, and i tend to use it for one-off downloads of a single url. that way i get to see what i’m gonna get (filesize, resolution, codec, etc), before i get it.
yt-dlp -f - https://youtu.be/xWUCsE4IM_cthen at the prompt here in your example, i’d input
140for audio only.yt-dlp can be used on an iPhone via a-shell (and possibly other shell apps).
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