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Comment by wirddin | Hacker News Reader

This problem got solved when YouTube started allowing offline videos. Idk if it is available in your country, but in India you don't need to be a paying customer to save offline videos.

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India usually get those offline features much more faster than other countries for some reason.

I wish we had these options in Canada, because mobile bandwidth is stupidly expensive over here.

> India usually get those offline features

This is because Internet in India sucks

... plus with a population of ~1.25 billion people, it's an incredibly large market to overlook.

That's only on mobile afaik. How do you deal with it on the desktop?

On macOS, do something like this:

  $ brew install youtube-dl

On macOS, the following works as well:

    $ pip install youtube-dl

even if you don't use brew. Python is there out of the box.

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