#downloadingcontent — Public Fediverse posts

Lifehacker: 10 Video Downloading Hacks Every YouTube User Should Know. “YouTube constantly changes its website and apps, so these methods may not always work, but I’ve tested all of them and confirmed they are working at the time of writing. It’s also important to note that downloading YouTube videos outside of the app’s official channels is against the company’s terms of service. That said, if […]

Inkdroid: Bandcamp Archiver. “There are already fine tools for downloading a Bandcamp collection: bandsnatch and the bandcamp-collection-downloader both fetch the lot, in parallel, in the format you want. But they know only what they downloaded, and what I needed to know was what I was missing. So I worked with Claude Code on bandcamp-archiver, which reads the embedded tags off my disk, […]

Spotted in my Snaps: scrapemychats. This link goes to a GitHub page. “ChatGPT’s business and Team accounts often have no ‘Export data’ button — the one-click archive that personal accounts get is simply missing, and there’s no official way to take your conversation history with you when the workspace is closed or your subscription is cancelled. scrapemychats fills that gap: it exports every […]

ZDNet: How to download YouTube videos for free – 2 easy and reliable methods I always use. “After years of working in multimedia, I’ve had to locally save countless YouTube videos. I now have one go-to tool, and my colleague David Gewirtz has suggested another, but there are plenty of options out there that come highly recommended. Either way, here are two methods that are free and trusted, so […]

Code4Lib Journal: Extracting A Large Corpus from the Internet Archive, A Case Study. “This article outlines how The University of Kentucky Libraries downloaded over 86 thousand previously uploaded newspaper issues from the Internet Archive for local use. The process leveraged ChatGPT to automate the process of generating Python scripts that accessed the Internet Archive via its API (Application […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/22/code4lib-journal-extracting-a-large-corpus-from-the-internet-archive-a-case-study/

ZDNet: I exported my Snapchat Memories to avoid the new storage fee – here’s how. “Snap’s new Memories storage plans mean longtime users like me have to choose: pay up or start exporting before the 12-month grace period ends. I chose to export my Memories, and while doing so, I found there are two ways to do it.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/02/zdnet-i-exported-my-snapchat-memories-to-avoid-the-new-storage-fee-heres-how/

Phil Gyford: Downloading a TypePad blog. “TypePad is closing down at the end of September 2025 and I recently downloaded some TypePad blogs for a couple of friends. Here’s how I did it, and how I fixed a few things afterwards.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/16/phil-gyford-downloading-a-typepad-blog/