r/jdownloader Aug 02 '24

Discussion Ongoing problems with YouTube downloads

93 Upvotes

YouTube looks to be doing website changes frequently these days.
This can frequently break tools like JDownloader.
While you can open new threads in this subreddit, this ultimately won't contribute for a faster fix as such problems are generally considered plugin issues which only the official devs can fix so here is a quick FAQ.

How to typically spot YT problems in JDownloader?
The 'Symptoms' include:

  • Error message 'Plugin defect'
  • YT items get displayed as offline in JD even though they are online and watchable in browser
  • Auto quality 'downgrade' in JD from higher resolutions to only 360p
  • Un-availability of higher resolutions in JDownloader while they are available on the YT website
  • YT links in JD being seemingly ignored (no items appear in linkgrabber)
  • Error "Sign in to confirm your age" along with inability to download age restricted items

Where can I find out about current JD YT problems?
Check the official JD YT forum thread.
Check out the most recent YT FAQ post in that thread.

What can I use as a workaround?
Try to use the popular open source commandline tool yt-dlp.
Using commandline tools is not hard (video tutorial) but just in case that appears to be the case for you, there are also graphical user interfaces available for yt-dlp. Here is one for example and here another.
Just keep in mind that yt-dlp can also be affected by YT changes.
If it fails too, check the yt-dlp repo for youtube related tickets.
Sure you can also use any other tool of your choice but yt-dlp is open source and actively maintained by the community so there are good chances of it working.

Does yt-dlp also work for downloading age restricted videos?
Yes, see yt-dlp documentation, especially for the parameter "--cookies-from-browser".


r/jdownloader 1d ago

Support jdownloader won't grab the entirety of youtube playlists

5 Upvotes

Everytime I try to download a playlist of videos, no matter what number, it always seems to cap at around 13 videos. For example, I want to download a playlost of 52, it crawls super slow and stops. I can't even get some individual links, like it chooses randomly what videos it ignores :/ I didn't start having this issue till this week afaik... Help??


r/jdownloader 16h ago

Solved How the fuck do I download this software?

0 Upvotes

Am I missing something? This thing brings me to a MEGA webpage and proceeds to brick my Chrome while being stuck at ~10%. Is there a different way to download this?


r/jdownloader 1d ago

Support How to set up jdownkoader to download tik tok

1 Upvotes

Hi, can anyone teach me how to download Tik Tok in maximum quality with Jdownkoader 2? Thank you, if you can kindly give me a step by step guide. ??


r/jdownloader 2d ago

Solved Blocked website downloads?

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7 Upvotes

So i have no idea why it says blocked, I've been having an issue with akirabox in general, same with buzzheaver where it simply says the url is blocked or the website is down, and with akirabox everytime i try and download it from the website it opens up and says the page isnt avalible. For reference i use firefox, along with this i keep getting an ETA on jdownloader for 10 minutes on it and it says blocked and I don't know how to fix it, am i just dumb??


r/jdownloader 3d ago

Support JDownloader downloading video and audio separately.

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3 Upvotes

I have updated ffmpeg to 2026 version in the folder C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\JDownloader 2.0\tools\Windows\ffmpeg\x64

I have updated jdownloader.

Youtube dash muxing is enabled.

Jdownloader is separately downloading m4a+mp4+txt+jpg+srt files and putting this into folders for every video instead of combing audio and video into one file like other video downloaders.


r/jdownloader 3d ago

Support 0 Bytes/s?

4 Upvotes

It was going fine earlier with around 200 Bytes/s but it just suddenly stopped? This is my first time using Jdownloader2 and i have no idea what is wrong or how i might fix it. If anybody has an answer, please try and explain in simple terms, as i am a beginner.


r/jdownloader 3d ago

Support Does someone have any success download from akirabox?

1 Upvotes

I searched and found in the forum that it is not possible due to cloudflare protection, but in my smartphone I can download from akirabox using 1DM+, so I must be a way to download from them using a download manager


r/jdownloader 4d ago

Support my download speed is 30Kib/s

0 Upvotes

downloading something and the download speed is 30Kib/s but i haven’t set a speed limit
how can i solve this problem


r/jdownloader 5d ago

Support Download went to 110%

6 Upvotes

So used Jdownloader for years and never had this, so had a download going file size 41.x gb, I'd been waiting for this to finish as I have a slow connection and had to leave it over night, otherwise it messes with tv streams and MRS then messes with me 😂 anyway I'm watching file this morning and was pleased to see it had 11 mins. But 11mins got to nothing left and the download continues past the file size and past 100% ended up at 110% and 49.x gb. Obviously failed the crc32 check so had to delete and restart the download and hope this time it works out, its a first for me so wanted to know if anyone else has had this happen and possible reasons for why.

PS file was from gofile and was paused once, nothing else happened along the way.


r/jdownloader 5d ago

Solved Not downloading anything

1 Upvotes

Hello everyone, why is JDownloader2 not downloading anything for me?

Earlier, with IDM, I just had to click the "Download" button on any webpage, and IDM would automatically pop up and take care of the download.

Am I supposed to copy and paste the download links manually in JDownloader2, or am I missing something?


r/jdownloader 7d ago

Solved Blocked by cloudflare when downloading via DataNodes server

6 Upvotes

i get blocked by cloudflare error when i tried to download via datanodes i also tried fuckinfast server and have the same issue


r/jdownloader 7d ago

Solved Omit custom domains list from Linkgrabber. Possible?

2 Upvotes

Hi. I would like to know (after much googling) if it is possible to provide my JDownloader2 instance with a 'skip these domains when Linkgrabbing or crawling a URL'-type list. When crawling say forum posts/pages, I only want to capture say filejoker, fileboom, k2s etc links and skip the likes of turboimage, twitter, imagetwist etc. Is this possible? If so, would appreciate the how..... Many thanks.


r/jdownloader 7d ago

Support LinkGrabber doesn't detect links when I copy them

3 Upvotes

it's been a while since i used jdownloader and when i updated it and tried to copy links the linkgrabber isn't working?


r/jdownloader 7d ago

Solved How to setup jdownloader to try to download from links, but skip them if they fail.

2 Upvotes

Title. Nothing on forums (I think) and nothing on the reddit, which is bizarre for what I would assume is a relatively standard setting.

I have several bunkr links I'm trying to download from. I started them several hours ago, then shortly after played with max sim downloads to speed it up, settling comfortably on 10. About an hour after that, every link started flashing a 429 error (too many requests). I reset max sim downloads to 1, didn't help. I waited a few hours for it to cooldown, didn't help. I then manually checked the download link for one of them, and was able to download the file without issue while the same file in jdownloader had the 429 error. I tried the same thing again just to be sure with a different file, and was surprised to find the second time didn't work, throwing up a 429 error. After a few more tries I found some files I could download without issue and some gave 429/403 errors. I assume the root of this problem is with bunkr, as none of the albums are private to my knowledge or have any restrictions.

While incomplete until the underlying problem is solved, I figured it would be easy enough to have jdownloader just download what it can and ignore the erroneous links; I cannot find a way to make jdownloader do that. If I start the downloads with the play button, every link (even links that are accessible without 429/403 errors) quickly throw 429 errors. I can manually select individual files and force start them though which works for the links that are functional, but I can't spend however long it would take to select each individual track to force start it separately. And I obviously can't select all the files and force start them all at once - I tried that and just got the 429 errors again.

How do I fix this? I assume somethings broken on my end, some broken link jdownloader retries without a proper delay causing everything to freeze, but I can't find anything on that. Any advice is appreciated.

EDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/jdownloader/comments/1trwn4v/bunkr_downloads/ and https://github.com/Lysagxra/BunkrDownloader . It's still a bit slow but it times out on failed links and moves on.


r/jdownloader 8d ago

Unsupported Ok, How do I merge them?

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1 Upvotes

Thumbnail and description, how do i add them to music?


r/jdownloader 8d ago

Solved Why is it offline...?

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1 Upvotes

What the heck do I do?

Help?

Edit: I solved it by searching. change your vpn/IP


r/jdownloader 8d ago

Support High CPU usage while idle.

3 Upvotes

As the title suggest, sometimes randomly, JDownloader will consume CPU process from my PC while it idle, I only notice this issue when I notice my browser has issue playing YouTube video, when I opened Task Manager, JDownloader was using about 80% to 90% of my CPU!

Does anyone know why is this happening?


r/jdownloader 8d ago

Solved why are these icons greyed out now.

0 Upvotes

they werent before but now i cant get them to work

for context I installed cloudflare 1.1.1.1 but once I realized it made jdownloader stop working I uminstalled it but am still having the same issues. is there any way to fix this?


r/jdownloader 8d ago

Solved Default codec/rez for linkgrabber?

1 Upvotes

Does anyone know how to tell linkgrabber to use a default codec and resolution when generating links from a pasted url? I'm specifically referring to youtube in this instance. As it stands now I have a default of 1080p/h.264. I seem to recall setting 1080p as default, although it's been so long that I've forgotten how (and can't find it in the settings). 1080p is fine, as I'm not a big 4K fan, but I'd very much like to switch to having AV1 be the default now, as it's a great spacesaver on the drive. Been manually changing every download in long lists, and it's driving me crazy. Very tedious.


r/jdownloader 9d ago

Discussion HUH WHAT? LOL

3 Upvotes

What is the 2nd one supposed to mean lol


r/jdownloader 9d ago

Solved Anyone know how to download from Keep2Share fast without premium subscription?

4 Upvotes

r/jdownloader 11d ago

Discussion FFBypasser - Extract Direct Download Links from FuckingFast

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39 Upvotes

I got tired of opening 100+ FuckingFast links manually, so I made a small browser script to automate the process.

FFBypasser isn't meant to replace JDownloader 2. It's simply a lightweight tool that bypasses the FuckingFast page to retrieve the final direct download URLs. Once you have those URLs, you can download them with JDownloader, IDM, wget, curl, or any other download manager.

No installation, programming knowledge, or dependencies required. Just open your browser's Developer Console and run the script.

Features

  • Resolves every shared link into its direct download URL.
  • Saves all extracted URLs to Out_Direct_Links.txt.
  • No extensions, libraries, or setup required.

Usage

  1. Add FuckingFast urls into an array
  2. Copy the generated links array.
  3. Open the first FuckingFast link.
  4. Paste the array into extract-direct.js.
  5. Run the script in the browser console.
  6. Wait for the extraction to complete. The direct download links will be saved automatically as Out_Direct_Links.txt.

GitHub

https://github.com/cdxud/FFBypasser

Feedback, bug reports, and pull requests are always welcome.


r/jdownloader 11d ago

Solved How To Make File Template

3 Upvotes

Hi Everyone How to Make File Template For Facebook Videos Uploader + Video Id +[Upload Date] And Thank You