Remember the youtubedl fiasco? Back to the issue at hand, Google forbids extensions on the store from downloading YouTube videos. The FDM extension clearly does not download the videos, it just sends the command to the program.
The FDM desktop application, like many programs, is just a tool, and it is the up to the user to decide how they want to use the program. It is a little strange why the search giant went after Free Download Manager in particular, while similar programs haven't been targeted.
The problem with FDM seems to have started with version 6. If you have an older build, could you use it to download YouTube videos? Intrigued by this thought, I tried a slightly older version, and it gave me a different error that said "Can't process page.
So, I went all the way back to version 5, and it still gave me an error, but this time it said "Parsing failure. YouTube downloads are not available. 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 can think of 2 possibilities. One, something has changed on YouTube's end, which is causing the error. It seems unlikely, since I was able to download the videos using other programs. 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. I mentioned earlier that the developer had to "turn off the option for YouTube", this is likely the intermediary service that was taken down.
Here's a Web Archive version of it from April The page's disappearance does seem like a serious issue, and it remains unclear whether FDM will add support for YouTube downloads again. Take a look at our previous article for more ways to download videos. I use 2 different ones for FF that only recently began working intermittently. Not gonna mention names not giving google harvest intel to kill them.
YouTube-DLG called youtube-dl-gui in the Linux world, I seem to recall is a convenient graphical front end originally designed for youtube-dl but that seems to work fine with yt-dlp. But nevertheless I think its a shame that the possibility is gone. Works always for me. Do not forget to use an ad blocker. There are lots of DMCA law suits going on. See torrentfreak. FDM are just trying to protect themselves. I use Web Downloader to download youtube videos from youtube4kdownloader. Also Web Downloader is a fast and lightweight download manager but without browser integration.
I just stream youtube stuff using VLC. A fix in the form of a youtube. Win Mac. Grand Capital Trader. Program that enables you to buy and sell currencies, commodities, CFD stocks and indices. Nox App Player. Free web browser with a variety of unique features for secure Wondershare UniConverter. The complete video toolbox to convert, compress, edit videos Free up gigabytes of storage space through finding duplicates These options are not available before the download starts but can be configured later.
Right-click on any of the downloads, and set it accordingly. To balance it even further, you can choose the amount of bandwidth each of these modes can be used.
You will have to activate it manually. Launch FDM, and look for a Snail icon on the bottom left of the software. Click on it.
As soon as you do that, the snail will turn orange, and all downloads will fall in KBPS download speed. It is useful when you need to get your work done but still want to download it to continue even at a snail speed. Most of the ISPs offer better download speed at night. Chances are you will end up downloading everything at night than during the day. FDM has an inbuilt scheduler that allows you to select any download and put it on a particular schedule.
The option also shows up just before the download starts. Check the box which says Scheduler, and then configure the day and time of the download. You also get a preview of the availble disk size and fie size. If a download is in progress, you can still schedule it to download later.
Since download managers can take a large part of bandwidth, it will hamper your current work. So to download it later, right-click on the file you are downloading and click on schedule. You will want to catch the download, which you start in the browser to FDM. Like always, you will need to install the Firefox, Edge, and Chrome extensions to do that. As soon as you start the download, it will open in the download manager, and you can schedule to download it instantly.
I would strongly suggest you configure download settings of the FDM. Some features can be optimized and set up in a way that you do not waste a lot of time figuring out the download and more. There are a few essential features that are not available anymore in the current version.
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