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A comment on Show HN: Download YouTube movies directly to iPhone (with no extra app required).

Re:Show HN: Download YouTube movies directly to iPhone (with... by unknow on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:49AM (#13923285)
I'm author of that tool. It allows iPhone/iPad users to convert list of YouTube URLs to RSS feed, compatible with native Podcasts application.

This feed works fine also with other podcast/videocast apps on any iOS/Android device (tested on few Android apps also).

All videos added to that feed (feeds are editable) are automatically downloaded to phone/tablet.

By default, 360p video is downloaded, but user is able to change quality to 720p (if available) on 'edit feed' page.

My future goals:

- give users ability to personalize cover+description of newly created feed, then this feed could be sent to 'Apple Podcasts Connect' as new videocast

- support Youtube playlists/channels, not only direct video links

- support other video hosting services (like vimeo etc)

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Re:Show HN: Download YouTube movies directly to iPhone (with... by sharpshadow on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:11PM (#13923564)
Sounds like a great idea. Didn't tried it yet. Sometimes I see people struggle really hard to get media downloaded with an iPhone. If this works as smoothly as stated it will spread fast.
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