https://github.com/lostdusty/retrobalt
download your stuff with cobalt, even on Windows 2000!
https://github.com/lostdusty/retrobalt
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download your stuff with cobalt, even on Windows 2000!
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/lostdusty/retrobalt
- Owner: lostdusty
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2024-07-01T17:49:58.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-08-26T19:29:18.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-27T11:12:23.147Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: Go
- Size: 41.2 MB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# retrobalt
download your stuff with cobalt, even on Windows 2000!
| **Table of Content** |
|:--------------------------:|
| [What?](#what-is-this) |
| [Download](#downloads) |
| [Usage](#usage) |
| [How?](#how) |
| [Why?](#why) |
| [Troubleshooting](#issues) |
| [Compiling](#issues) |
## What is this?
An small app written in go 1.2.2 to work on older systems (including windows 2000), to download any media using https://cobalt.tools. Heavily inspired from [this library](https://github.com/lostdusty/gobalt) and [this app](https://github.com/lostdusty/cobalt).
## Downloads
[click on me!](https://github.com/lostdusty/retrobalt/releases/latest)
## Usage
```
Usage of retrobalt.exe:
-api string
Change the cobalt api url used. See others instances in https://instances.hyper.lol.
(default "https://api.cobalt.tools")
-audio
Downloads only the audio, and removes the video.
-audio-codec string
Audio format/codec to be used. "best" doesn't re-encodes the audio.
(default "best")
-dubbed-audio
Downloads youtube audio dubbed, if present. Change the language using -language .
-filename string
File name pattern. Classic: youtube_yPYZpwSpKmA_1920x1080_h264.mp4 | audio: youtube_yPYZpwSpKmA_audio.mp3 // Basic: Video Title (1080p, h264).mp4 | audio: Audio Title - Audio Author.mp3 // Pretty: Video Title (1080p, h264, youtube).mp4 | audio: Audio Title - Audio Author (soundcloud).mp3 // Nerdy: Video Title (1080p, h264, youtube, yPYZpwSpKmA).mp4 | audio: Audio Title - Audio Author (soundcloud, 1242868615).mp3.
(default "pretty")
-gif
Convert twitter gifs to .gif.
(default true)
-language string
Downloads dubbed youtube audio according to the language set following the ISO 639-1 format. Only takes effect if -dubbed-audio was passed as an argument.
(default "en")
-metadata
Don't embeds file metadata, if possible, to the download.
-tiktok-full
Download the original sound used in a tiktok video.
-tiktok-h265
Downloads TikTok videos using h265 codec.
-url string
the url to download using cobalt.
-video
Downlods only the video, and removes the audio.
-video-codec string
Video codec to be used. Applies only to youtube downloads. AV1: 8K/HDR, lower support | VP9: 4K/HDR, best quality | H264: 1080p, works everywhere
(default "h264")
-video-quality int
Quality of the video, also applies only to youtube downloads. Ranges from 144p to 2160p (4k).
(default 1080)
```
### Example
- `retrobalt -u "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RrMOeuofvDM" -audio-codec mp3`
- Saves the audio from the url as mp3 using default settings.
- `retrobalt -h`
- Shows help on how to use retrobalt.
- `retrobalt` (no args)
- will tell you that you should have passed at least one argument.
## How?
[go1.2.2 was the last version to support windows 2000](https://go.dev/doc/go1.3#win2000), so I wanted to challange myself and create something for an old system.
### Roadblocks
Windows 2000 is too outdated to even update the root certificates (I tried without success),
So I disabled client verification of server's certificate chain and host name.
```go
tr := http.DefaultTransport.(*http.Transport)
tr.TLSClientConfig = &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true}
```
After that, everything worked smooth.
.webp)
## Why?
## Issues
Here is a few fixes if you run into any issues
### retrobalt.exe is not a valid Win32 application.
No idea why this happens, but you will need to:
- [Download go1.2.2](https://go.dev/dl/go1.2.2.windows-386.zip);
- Extract it to `C:\go`;
- Add `C:\go\bin` to your `PATH` environment variable;
- Download the source code and put it somewhere;
- Open cmd where you downloaded the source code;
- Compile with `go build`.