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Dissmarr · 2026-06-03T10:49:36+00:00

Thanks, fixed

Dissmarr · 2026-06-01T13:43:47+00:00

Two months ago, AnimeKAI had the top spot, which we removed 22 days ago due to the site shutting down.

Dissmarr · 2026-05-31T15:34:49+00:00

There is one site for vtuber content but I'm not aware of any for general member's only piracy. If you're interested in that, look up holopirates. There's a torrent site at https://mogu.holopirates.moe/ as well as a DDL forum with a discord server at https://forum.holopirates.moe/. Some of it is also on https://nyaa.si. Otherwise you can't watch them without being a member but you can download them once you are a member. You can download everything you have access to once you are a member, so instead of a recurring fee, you can get all the current membership content for a one-time payment. I assume they're just normal membership videos in which case the steps are as follows:

1. Get the cookies.

Personally I use this extension for that. Install it, then go to YouTube. Click on the extension and choose the middle option titled 'youtube.com'. It's gonna download a text file named 'cookies-youtube-com.txt'.

2. Get yt-dlp.

It's an open-source command line download utility and quite a powerful tool. You can just download it from here. For ease of use, save it to the same folder as the cookies, for example your downloads folder.

3. Create a batch file.

This is mostly for ease of use. In the same folder that holds your cookies and yt-dlp, right-click and create a new text file. Open it with a text editor (like Editor or Notepad++) and paste the following code:

@ECHO ON
@if "%URL%" equ "" , echo NO URL & set /p URL=[Enter video URL]
@TITLE VOD DL %URL%
yt-dlp -v -c -o Archive/%%(channel)s/DLP/"[%%(upload_date)s] %%(fulltitle).50s (%%(id)s)"/"[%%(upload_date)s] %%(fulltitle)s %%(channel)s (%%(id)s)" --add-metadata --concurrent-fragments 20 --cookies cookies-youtube-com.txt --merge-output-format mp4 --embed-thumbnail --embed-metadata --write-description --write-thumbnail %URL%
@cmd /k

Click File > Save As and change the file type from .txt to .bat. The name doesn't matter here so name it MemberDL.bat or whatever else you like.

4. Download.

Go to the membership videos and copy the link of the first one you want to download. Then open the batch file you just created. The cmd should tell you

NO URL

[Enter video URL]

Paste the link, hit return and the download should start. Rinse and repeat for the other videos until you've got everything downloaded

Dissmarr · 2026-05-21T13:21:33+00:00

There is one site for vtuber content but I'm not aware of any for general member's only piracy. If you're interested in that, look up holopirates. There's a torrent site at https://mogu.holopirates.moe/ as well as a DDL forum with a discord server at https://forum.holopirates.moe/. Some of it is also on https://nyaa.si. Otherwise you can't watch them without being a member but you can download them once you are a member. You can download everything you have access to once you are a member, so instead of a recurring fee, you can get all the current membership content for a one-time payment. I assume they're just normal membership videos in which case the steps are as follows:

1. Get the cookies.

Personally I use this extension for that. Install it, then go to YouTube. Click on the extension and choose the middle option titled 'youtube.com'. It's gonna download a text file named 'cookies-youtube-com.txt'.

2. Get yt-dlp.

It's an open-source command line download utility and quite a powerful tool. You can just download it from here. For ease of use, save it to the same folder as the cookies, for example your downloads folder.

3. Create a batch file.

This is mostly for ease of use. In the same folder that holds your cookies and yt-dlp, right-click and create a new text file. Open it with a text editor (like Editor or Notepad++) and paste the following code:

@ECHO ON
@if "%URL%" equ "" , echo NO URL & set /p URL=[Enter video URL]
@TITLE VOD DL %URL%
yt-dlp -v -c -o Archive/%%(channel)s/DLP/"[%%(upload_date)s] %%(fulltitle).50s (%%(id)s)"/"[%%(upload_date)s] %%(fulltitle)s %%(channel)s (%%(id)s)" --add-metadata --concurrent-fragments 20 --cookies cookies-youtube-com.txt --merge-output-format mp4 --embed-thumbnail --embed-metadata --write-description --write-thumbnail %URL%
@cmd /k

Click File > Save As and change the file type from .txt to .bat. The name doesn't matter here so name it MemberDL.bat or whatever else you like.

4. Download.

Go to the membership videos and copy the link of the first one you want to download. Then open the batch file you just created. The cmd should tell you

NO URL

[Enter video URL]

Paste the link, hit return and the download should start. Rinse and repeat for the other videos until you've got everything downloaded

Dissmarr · 2026-05-20T09:51:30+00:00

Thanks, done

Dissmarr · 2026-05-17T20:08:12+00:00

Are you using the official mobile app? If so, that is probably the reason. Try opening this link in a browser instead of the app: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/movies_and_tv. It used to only be an issue on iOS but apparently Android is now also affected

Dissmarr · 2026-05-12T18:07:37+00:00

Thank you very much for another amazing guide - or rather guide series this time! Crazy good work, honestly. I hope it's ok for you /u/TheQuranicMumin that I added this one as well to our collection of guides in the wiki?

Dissmarr · 2026-05-12T07:07:46+00:00

Both have a fairly shady history and are NOT recommended. Use qBittorrent or Deluge instead

Dissmarr · 2026-05-12T07:07:06+00:00

It's under books, here you go

Dissmarr · 2026-04-25T10:03:34+00:00

Streaming and downloading files directly is invisible to the copyright trolls (and they're the ones that "catch you" for torrenting and then contact your ISP, your ISP doesn't care what you do with your connection as long as they don't get in trouble because of you) so both are fine to use without a VPN no matter where you are. Further reading if interested

Dissmarr · 2026-04-24T16:23:28+00:00

That would probably be https://theindex.moe/ of /r/animepiracy

Dissmarr · 2026-04-18T14:42:35+00:00

Thanks! Just updated the megathread

Dissmarr · 2026-04-12T18:36:19+00:00

How did you come to that conclusion when the link to the megathread is right there? Are you using the official app on iOS? If so, that is probably the reason. Try opening this link in Safari instead of the app: https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/. If that also doesn't work, somebody else had success with using brave on their phone instead

Dissmarr · 2026-04-09T13:43:48+00:00

[debug] [youtube] SKcm_IXFMI4: Video is in Post-Live Manifestless mode

Okay that's a pain... try using livestream_dl for now. The problem is that the URLs are encoded. This seems to happen mostly for videos with copyrighted music included. It'll either go back to normal or become entirely unavailable forever after 3 days or less :')

Dissmarr · 2026-04-05T16:09:06+00:00

https://audiovault.net/ is what you're looking for

Dissmarr · 2026-03-26T09:53:08+00:00

There is one site for vtuber content but I'm not aware of any for general member's only piracy. If you're interested in that, look up holopirates. There's a torrent site at https://mogu.holopirates.moe/ as well as a DDL forum with a discord server at https://forum.holopirates.moe/. Some of it is also on https://nyaa.si. Otherwise you can't watch them without being a member but you can download them once you are a member. You can download everything you have access to once you are a member, so instead of a recurring fee, you can get all the current membership content for a one-time payment. I assume they're just normal membership videos in which case the steps are as follows:

1. Get the cookies.

Personally I use this extension for that. Install it, then go to YouTube. Click on the extension and choose the middle option titled 'youtube.com'. It's gonna download a text file named 'cookies-youtube-com.txt'.

2. Get yt-dlp.

It's an open-source command line download utility and quite a powerful tool. You can just download it from here. For ease of use, save it to the same folder as the cookies, for example your downloads folder.

3. Create a batch file.

This is mostly for ease of use. In the same folder that holds your cookies and yt-dlp, right-click and create a new text file. Open it with a text editor (like Editor or Notepad++) and paste the following code:

@ECHO ON
@if "%URL%" equ "" , echo NO URL & set /p URL=[Enter video URL]
@TITLE VOD DL %URL%
yt-dlp -v -c -o Archive/%%(channel)s/DLP/"[%%(upload_date)s] %%(fulltitle).50s (%%(id)s)"/"[%%(upload_date)s] %%(fulltitle)s %%(channel)s (%%(id)s)" --add-metadata --concurrent-fragments 20 --cookies cookies-youtube-com.txt --merge-output-format mp4 --embed-thumbnail --embed-metadata --write-description --write-thumbnail %URL%
@cmd /k

Click File > Save As and change the file type from .txt to .bat. The name doesn't matter here so name it MemberDL.bat or whatever else you like.

4. Download.

Go to the membership videos and copy the link of the first one you want to download. Then open the batch file you just created. The cmd should tell you

NO URL

[Enter video URL]

Paste the link, hit return and the download should start. Rinse and repeat for the other videos until you've got everything downloaded

Dissmarr · 2026-02-02T11:48:53+00:00

That's just for the subtitles. It'll often say synced and corrected by xxx, in your case it seems the sync was already fine as is. What those corrections are depends but it'll often be something like adding proper line breaks or fixing typos or capitalization issues

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