How do most online video downloaders that return an mp4 work for iPhone?

submitted by cheese_greater@lemmy.world

something something ytlp?

More interested in the mechanism so I can easily find what works or cobble together alternate solutions.

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kabi@lemm.ee

something something yt-dlp

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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Probably running something like yt-dlp

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Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world

Support question. Locking.

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xmunk@sh.itjust.works

While they're probably just using a library to make it easier it's important to remember that if human eyes can see something on a screen we can capture it.

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