An elementary OS app written in Vala that provides a GUI frontend for the popular youtube-dl command line application to easily download videos from hundreds of websites.
These instructions are for elementary OS 5 Juno.
You need to install youtube-dl or download it manually and put it on your PATH:
sudo apt install youtube-dl
Also make sure you have the elementary-sdk installed:
sudo apt install elementary-sdk
Then do:
git clone https://github.com/cryptowyrm/copypastegrab.git
cd copypastegrab
meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja
After following the above steps, just execute ninja in the build directory whenever you make changes to recompile, then start the app with ./com.github.cryptowyrm.copypastegrab or do a sudo ninja install and use the app launcher to start the app.