This may be old hat to others, but I just learned it. yt-download works fine on PC but i hadn't found a way to do so on Android, particularly since most Invidious instances now have download turned off. I did find, however, that if you use an active invidious instance, such as invidious.tiekoetter.com and use the Android App 1DM+ (probably works on the regular 1DM too, but this app is so good I recommend you support the devs regardless by paying for +) you can access a YT video there and it will download fine, in order to be allowed on PlayStore the app blocks the ability to do so when on YouTube, but never thought about doing it this way until today

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[–] pah@jlai.lu 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You must check out https://newpipe.net/

Alternative client for YT on Android available through F-Droid

[–] fu@libranet.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@pah I am not finding abn option to download audio only. Am I missing it?

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Once you select a video and click "Download", after a few moments, a pop-up like the one in the picture below should appear. You just need to select "Audio" and then "OK".

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Screenshot of a pop-up in NewPipe titled "Download". It contains a radio button with three options, which are "Video", "Audio", and "Captions". The "Audio" option is selected and highlighted.

If you want, before you press "OK", you can click the drop-down menu located in the pop-up to choose a different file format or a different bitrate (the higher the bitrate of a file is, the better it will sound).

Happy to help if you have any more questions :)

[–] fu@libranet.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@pah oh, this looks awesome. Glad i clicked the link, I thought you were talking about Piped as the name and the logo are very similar In my experience Piped worked very poorly.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago

NewPipe publishes their YouTube extractor, as a library called NewPipedExtractor. Piped is like a Web UI for the NewPipeExtractor. That's the reason they look so similar.

Keep in mind that Google hunts third party YouTube clients, and most public instances may not work due to throttles or bans.