🗂️ Fellow Data Hoarders, I Need Your Help!

cinemaxos1

Hi y’all! I’ve been meaning to ask this for SO long...

Does anyone here know how to download videos/movies/scenes from file-hosting servers like Rapidgator, FileJoker, NitroFlare, DDownload, TezFiles, KatFile, Turbobit, DepositFiles, Keep2Share, etc.?

I vaguely remember hearing about something like debrid services/link generators that can make downloading from these hosts easier, but I genuinely have no idea how they work or which ones are actually reliable. (Also definitely won't able to pay for each)

If anyone knows a good method, has experience with these hosts, or happens to have a debrid account and could point me in the right direction, I would genuinely appreciate the help sooo much.

Please feel free to DM me if you know anything — even a little bit of guidance would be incredibly helpful. Thank youuuu! 🤍

imgayru2

@cinemaxos1 I have used debrid services and I do pay for it. You will need to compare bunch of them to see which one fulfills your needs and supports the websites you want to download from. Chose the one which makes more sense. Once you pay for it, it gives you an option to download a browser add on, which you can install. Once you are on a page where the actual direct link to download the file is, you can click on the addon and it will generate the link. You can click on the link to download the file after that. It will download like any other direct download files do. You can also manually copy the link and generate the download link from their websites. I prefer the addon.

cinemaxos1

@imgayru2 can I dm you?

eonflux

@cinemaxos1 said:

debrid

It's been a while but I used to use jdownloader for this as it was specifically made to download from those sources you mentioned.

https://jdownloader.org/home/index

imgayru2

@cinemaxos1 Sure

MrMazda

If you can stream the content, there is a way in which to capture it, even for sites that try to prevent this kind of thing.

There are these wonderful things known as passthrough capture cards, which are a pirate's best friend. Unlike conventional screen capturing software like OBS Studio alone, which depend heavily on the software side of the data streams and can be blocked from capturing content from certain sources, the passthrough capture card comes in rather handy.

Simply put, you normally would connect an HDMI cable to your computer's HDMI port in order to connect to a display device such as a monitor or TV. With this type of capture card however, the card appears in your computer as a camera device, which has absolutely no association whatsoever to your computer's HDMI port. Instead, the device allows you to capture the data stream (both audio and video) coming off the actual HDMI port to be piped out to your TV or monitor. This works on a hardware level, so the USB side of the capture card appears in your system as a webcam device. It goes along an HDMI cable connection between the HDMI port and the HDMI powered display device.

The advantage to this method is that it works on a hardware level, rather than the software level, so it captures at a level that exists beyond the limits of DRM. These cards are most commonly used for streaming online gaming play, so as to do something like capture your gaming console's audio & video out feeds through the HDMI cable and stream them using the streaming service of your choice, but it just so happens that they absolutely CAN be used for other purposes as well.

The one I have attached to the docking station for my laptop isn't so much used for this purpose as it is for recording video conferences that I take part in using services that use DRM to block (in theory) the ability of the participants in the chat from being able to record it. If using it for this purpose however, just beware of the possible legal points on that, namely, any possible requirements to obtain consent of the other person or people, and whether or not the area you're in has a one party consent rule.

diabangical

I use a number of tools.

My Current Go-To for downloading pretty much anything, anywhere, is Internet Download Manager (program). It's phenomenal enough to buy the license. It'll grab anything. It's a hoarder's best friend. https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

The only thing is that some sites have their videos sliced up into several clips (dozens+) and play them on a playlist; It's more trouble than it's worth to use IDM for these videos, specifically. Its faster and easier to look for an alternate hosting/streaming location. It can download .ts videos.... but you should convert these so that they play better, using something like:

FFMPEG (command line) https://ffmpeg.org/ is a very powerful video media tool that can covert online videos to a local copy and can convert file types, edit and transform (flip, rotate, crop, and merge audio/video, and more). I don't use this for downloading. I use it mostly to "correct" videos; IE: a video has been flipped, I use it to un-flip it.

JDownloader as mentioned by others. Since it's a popular tool it can get gunked up by a site's download-detection protocols or whatever they do, and it can end up stuck, downloading slow, or downloads being rejected outright.

Video DownloadHelper (addon) Used to be pretty strong, and was my previous go-to. It's user-friendly with "out of the box" functionality, but they've started adding limits, specifically with downloading from YT. I still have it installed but I almost never use it (or anything else) because IDM just grabs anything and everything.

9xBuddy (website, various "website.###" suffixes) is something I used to use, but I don't use it much anymore, in favor of, again, IDM

There is also https://yesdownloader.com/en1/ a file snatcher for sites like such as for xvideos, PH, xnxx, xhamster, and probably others. I almost never use this now that I have IDM.

TL;DR: In case you haven't noticed the pattern; Just get IDM, and keep the others in mind in case something happens with IDM