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naranja

Member

Registered: 2023-09-01

Posts: 38

Temporary files

Hi everyone.
I want to download videos from youtube and I looked for the way I had to find them when I watch on the site in temporary files in /tmp file but it didn't find and in anyother on there.

usr/lib/tmp.d
var/run
var/spool
var/log/journal
run/shm
var/cache/man
etc
(This files are what on internet say can I find the temporary files)

Could anybody where I can found that videos in temporary files of Q4OS? Or the way to download without install any app on it. Thank you in advance.

hchiper

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: Temporary files

Whether temporary downloaded files exist and where they are stored depends on how you try to download the files. Please explain how you try to proceed.

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Q4OS machine: Samsung R519 - Pentium T4200 2.0 GHz - 4 GB RAM - 500 GB SSD

naranja

Member

Registered: 2023-09-01

Posts: 38

Re: Temporary files

Hi Hchiper, thank you to contact with me.

When I watch a YouTube video it loads in cache. In Fedora I would find that video in the /tmp folder and copy it to the desktop and rewrite it to .flv. It's a way to download a video without installing an application.
Thank you.

hchiper

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: Temporary files

I happen to watch some videos using firefox as browser, but I was never able to find where it stores a temporary file with the video. When I need to get a video, I use yt-dlp (available on github). No install, just a binary to save and use.

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Q4OS machine: Samsung R519 - Pentium T4200 2.0 GHz - 4 GB RAM - 500 GB SSD

naranja

Member

Registered: 2023-09-01

Posts: 38

Re: Temporary files

WOW!!!!!
Wonderfull!!!! I never deside to use yt-dlp to download videos from YouTube and I just installed and I did it and I used ffmpeg to change to .mp3 file and compress it. Too fast on Q4OS with the laptop with less resources.

Thank you so much for the help HChiper.

hchiper

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: Temporary files

You're welcome.

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Q4OS machine: Samsung R519 - Pentium T4200 2.0 GHz - 4 GB RAM - 500 GB SSD