^ read the title 
and let me know.
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I use 4k downloader.
It is easy to use - but annoyingly updated often...
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Oh ok nice, I don't really trust it because on the website they ask you for cookies, and It's not open source.
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What about Parabolic? Its better yes?
I have never tried it. The maintainer pushes it as a Snap or Flatpak.
It could be - you can try it out.
Fair point.
Closed source still gets audited, so I know it is safe. For as little as I ever use the 4k products, their profile on me is probably quite meager.
My use case may be different than others.
I use yt-dlp in CLI. It works great.
You can try Parabolic, it has a nicer UI and uses yt-dlp in its backend.
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Yeah, for some reason it failed download 
Why are you on Ubuntu, not Zorin OS?!?? anyways, here is it:
[debug] Command-line config: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twJDyoj0tDc', '--ignore-config', '--verbose', '--xff', 'default', '--no-warnings', '--progress', '--newline', '--progress-template', '[download] PROGRESS;%(progress.status)s;%(progress.downloaded_bytes)s;%(progress.total_bytes)s;%(progress.total_bytes_estimate)s;%(progress.speed)s;%(progress.eta)s', '--progress-delta', '.25', '--sleep-requests', '.75', '--no-mtime', '--no-embed-info-json', '--ffmpeg-location', '/app/bin/ffmpeg', '--plugin-dir', '/app/lib/org.nickvision.tubeconverter/plugins', '--force-overwrites', '--embed-metadata', '--embed-thumbnail', '--convert-thumbnails', 'png>png/jpg', '--remux-video', 'mp4', '--format', 'bv*+ba/b', '--paths', '/home/digital/Downloads', '--paths', 'temp:/home/digital/Downloads', '--output', 'the NEW Automated Torrent Media Server - Full Walkthrough Guide Pt. 3 (Gluetun, Sonarr, Radarr) [twJDyoj0tDc].%(ext)s', '--output', 'chapter:%(section_number)03d - the NEW Automated Torrent Media Server - Full Walkthrough Guide Pt. 3 (Gluetun, Sonarr, Radarr) [twJDyoj0tDc].%(ext)s', '--postprocessor-args', 'ffmpeg:-threads 32', '--print', 'after_move:filepath']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8 (No ANSI), error utf-8 (No ANSI), screen utf-8 (No ANSI)
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2025.10.14 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [a98e7f9f5] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.13.8 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-6.8.0-85-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.42 (OpenSSL 3.5.4 30 Sep 2025, glibc 2.42)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-121463-ged007ad427-20251017 (setts), ffprobe N-121463-ged007ad427-20251017
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2025.10.05, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.5.0, websockets-15.0.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Extractor Plugins: NSigDeno (YoutubeIE)
[debug] Post-Processor Plugins: srt_fixPP
[debug] Plugin directories: /app/lib/org.nickvision.tubeconverter/plugins/yt-dlp-YTNSigDeno/yt_dlp_plugins, /app/lib/org.nickvision.tubeconverter/plugins/srt_fix/yt_dlp_plugins, /app/lib/org.nickvision.tubeconverter/plugins/yt-dlp-ChromeCookieUnlock/yt_dlp_plugins
[debug] Loaded 1839 extractors
[debug] [youtube+NSigDeno] [pot] PO Token Providers: none
[debug] [youtube+NSigDeno] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory
[debug] [youtube+NSigDeno] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo
[youtube+NSigDeno] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twJDyoj0tDc
[youtube+NSigDeno] twJDyoj0tDc: Downloading webpage
[youtube+NSigDeno] Sleeping 0.75 seconds ...
[youtube+NSigDeno] twJDyoj0tDc: Downloading tv client config
I don't have access to the laptop right now so that screenshot was from parabolic app description.
It's still in the process, the logs don't show any sign of failure in download.
yt-dlp seems have no issue downloading it despite of the few warnings.
If you are using vpn or any network configuration that might be causing issue.
Ah ok.
I turned off VPN, still same thing.
I use the download function on NewPipe (android app). It allows to download as a video with the image resolution you want, or as an audio file, which if I remember right also supports choosing the bitrate for if you wish. If I need it on my computer for something I just send it through syncthing or localsend.
One annoying thing about it is that, on first launch, the app freezes for a few seconds and crashes when tapping on the download button, but at least opening the app again is enough to make it work, and this error is stable in the sense that it always crashes the first time and always works the second time, so it eventually becomes not too big of a deal. Though, I suspect it might be my phone's fault, since my old and new tablets never had that problem (exynos CPUs from 2016 and 2025 respectively), while my phone has always had it (mediatek CPU from a few years ago).
LOL ..... I agree but it keeps working and working until the next download then it don't .... most of the time I just click "remind me later" but then suddenly after a few days it won't download any more until you update ..... LOL
In Windows I have used MediaHuman, in Linux I haven't tried it yet. I see that they offer a repository for ubuntu.