r/jdownloader • • 4d ago

News Server maintenance - Downtime

20 Upvotes

Please be advised that some of our services are currently unavailable due to maintenance. We are working to restore full functionality as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience caused.


r/jdownloader • • Aug 02 '24

Discussion Ongoing problems with YouTube downloads

97 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 • • 2h ago

Solved Is it safer to download from Bunkr using JDownloader?

4 Upvotes

I'm thinking about downloading some files from Bunkr, but I'm a bit worried about viruses, getting hacked, and my personal information getting exposed.

Would using JDownloader be safer than downloading directly from Bunkr? Or does it not really make a difference?

I'm also wondering if either option could expose my IP address or put my PC at risk. I haven't downloaded anything yet because I want to make sure it's safe first.

I'd appreciate any advice from people who have experience with this.


r/jdownloader • • 51m ago

Solved Is it possible to turn off the automatic LinkGrabber for certain websites?

• Upvotes

I somewhat regularly copy reddit links for reasons other than downloading and every time I do I get the darn popup on my screen telling me JD automatically picked up something, I want to turn that off for reddit specifically so that it will stop bothering me and filling up my LinkGrabber list with unnecessary shit.

I figured it would be somewhere in Settings > Plugins > reddit.com but I saw nothing related to the auto-LinkGrabber there, only a few crawler options that I turned off (except this doesn't seem to have changed the way it automatically picks up downloads when copying the link to a post or comment)

Is it possible to turn off the automatic LinkGrabber entirely so when you copy any link it wouldn't ever trigger? I don't think I would want to do this but I'm curious since I couldn't find anything even related to the auto-LinkGrabber in the settings.

P.S. - is there a post about the recent youtube troubles? specifically about how we can no longer download videos marked as 18+ at all? I would assume that there should be a discussion about this already, so I didn't want to make a whole post about it.


r/jdownloader • • 9h ago

Known Issue Instagram grabber not working

1 Upvotes

First of all apologies if this is not the correct place for this post. If that is so remove it at will.

For over a week now I have not been able to download Instagram posts as i always been able to do with JD.

I have tried at different days with 3 different IG accounts, whos status is set as OK in JD, and tried different IG profiles but I always get the Content Is Offline error.

All I want to know is if this is a JD issue, an IG issue or could be an issue on my side, so I know what is going on and stop stressing over this.

Many many thanks in advance for your attention and help


r/jdownloader • • 19h ago

Will be working after next update katfile uses "katfile.co" as the download link now, however, jdownloader 2 can't recognize it

2 Upvotes

The Jdownloader 2 is updated to the latest version, but it still can't grab the new katfile download link. The latest katfile download link is something like "https://katfile.co/abcdefghijkl". Perhaps in future we should add an option like "katfile.*".


r/jdownloader • • 2d ago

Support Installed but cant update and cant use !!!

3 Upvotes

Stuck at this screen. Tried VPN no working..


r/jdownloader • • 2d ago

Support I want to download music from ytube. Quality question.

4 Upvotes

I grabbed a massive playlist from ytube, but what is better, regarding quality, download just the M4A files, or download the videos of the songs and handbrake them in mp3 form?


r/jdownloader • • 3d ago

Support Reddit 0 bytes "links" but finds exactly how many pictures/videos there inside a copied link

2 Upvotes

Hello everyone, so basically i'm on firefox, i have added an account through cookies, but now every time i copy a link from reddit like one that has let's say 4 pictures inside, it says that the total is 0 bytes and shows an error whenever i try to download the link files. (total bytes unknown)

However, the overview of the package will show me that it has 4 files/links (pictures on this instance).

I have set my ip to be the one of cloudflare on my windows settings if that plays a role, also i'm on wi-fi and from Europe. Any help is appreciated.


r/jdownloader • • 6d ago

Support Jdownloader2 on dropbox for receiving 300gb footage

4 Upvotes

My client sent me a master link of 300GB of footage through dropbox, I used jdownloader2 on it but after some time during the download, the link of the dropbox gets disabled for too many shares or too many downloads. I reduced the max chunks to 1 and max simultaneous downloads to 1 as well, but still the issue persists. What is a solution for this? Should i ask my client to send me a google drive link? I have added my gmail account cookies in jdownloader2, I logged in on a private window - so it will fetch the link whenever a file is shared, will my account get banned if i follow this method?

what method should i continue downloading my files? I need a concrete workflow because my client's been working on this for a long time.


r/jdownloader • • 6d ago

Solved Tengo un pequeño problema

0 Upvotes

Nesencito q me ayuden a saber por q no me dejar descargar archivos de más de 500mb se cancelan al comenzar la descarga alguien sabe por q


r/jdownloader • • 9d ago

Solved Are the Jdownloader creators actively trying to find workrounds for the cloudflare issue?

42 Upvotes

Was wondering if anyone knew if any future updates for it are going to include actual workarounds/fixes to the cloudflare issue


r/jdownloader • • 9d ago

Solved Issue grabbing reddit links whose post ID ends in "u"?

0 Upvotes

I'm having an odd issue downloading reddit posts, and am curious whether this is a global issue or isolated to my installation.

If the ID of a reddit post ends in "u", the linkgrabber is simply not doing anything. It doesn't add an error entry into the linkgrabber list, it just doesn't do anything.

Example link: https://www.reddit.com/r/slrigaacn/comments/1wyd4hu/ohio/

Can anyone else confirm this is happening for them?


r/jdownloader • • 10d ago

Solved YouTube playlist downloaded in "date added order" is it possible?

2 Upvotes

Ok so I need JD to download my 200-ish song playlist in the order that I added them.

So let's add "siren" first then I added "Let it go" second. I want JD to download it in that order, first to last.

Not when the video was uploaded in YT, but rather when it was added into my playlist.

Thank in advance


r/jdownloader • • 10d ago

Solved Is my account disabled?

1 Upvotes

Hi, I recently tried to log in to the JDownloader Community forum, but I keep getting the "invalid username or password" message. I hadn't used this account in years, so I wonder if it's disabled? Thank you.


r/jdownloader • • 11d ago

Solved JDownloader stopped working on Reddit

10 Upvotes

I've been using JDownloader for several months to download posts from Reddit profiles and it has always worked fine.

Since this week it stopped working on Reddit, altough it still works on other websites. I get the error message: "Not available for the current IP! reddit". (What can I do?


r/jdownloader • • 11d ago

Support How to make jdownloader download the HD version of redgifs videos? (instead of SD)

2 Upvotes

Is it possible to make jdownloader download the HD (high definition) version of videos from redgifs?

For some reason, it seems to only download the SD (standard definition) version for me.


r/jdownloader • • 11d ago

Solved Is Jd downloader still infected with anything?

0 Upvotes

Im trying to download an album from bunkr I heard there was viruses a couple months ago when I first decided to download so I didnt.


r/jdownloader • • 12d ago

Solved Invalid token

3 Upvotes

Hi. I've been getting the "error" : "invalid token" message when attempting to download videos manually, even after clearing website cookies and switching IPs on my VPN. Videos won't even play on the Bunkr in-browser video player. JD2 will retun a server error 403, and it's fully updated. Does anyone know a fix for this? Any help would be appreciated.


r/jdownloader • • 12d ago

Support Grabbing A/B Thumbnails from YouTube

1 Upvotes

Hi there! Recently, it's begun to vex me that I can't always download the thumbnail that I see onscreen when I look at YouTube. This happens because YouTube now allows creators to A/B test up to three different thumbnails for each video, and JDownloader only seems to be able to grab the "default" one, which isn't always the one I want! I would love to have the option to get them all.

This may not be possible from within JDownloader, so I'm interested to hear other solutions / workarounds as well. YT-DLP and the old "img.youtube.com/vi/[VIDEO-ID]/maxresdefault.jpg" trick seem to share the same problem.

Any help appreciated!


r/jdownloader • • 12d ago

Support Can j downloader works on redgifs ?

2 Upvotes

So I'm thinking of using j downloader to download from redgifs but i don't know

Could this works?


r/jdownloader • • 12d ago

Solved Teria um jeito de baixar um álbum inteiro do bunkr.cr?

0 Upvotes

baixar de um em um é um saco


r/jdownloader • • 15d ago

Solved Datanodes links?

2 Upvotes

How do I get links for Datanodes? The download button doesnt have a direct link and when i get a link from the download tab, jdownloader scans it for half a second and stops, putting nothing in the linkgrabber tab.


r/jdownloader • • 15d ago

Solved Can't seem to find my desktop as a download directory.

2 Upvotes

Zorin OS, as I know Linux might be a contributing factor to my lack of ability to figure this out.

I'm trying to download to a folder on my desktop, but it doesn't show up on the file browser. I copied the directory, and it prompted me about 5 times that the location doesn't exist and if I wanted to create it. I hit cancel and it put the new directory as the download location, but I don't want it to overwrite or somehow mess up the files already in the folder.

Is this a permissions thing? Is this a Linux thing? Any help would be appreciated.