The FDM desktop application, like many programs, is just a tool, and it is the up to the user to decide how they want to use the program. It is a little strange why the search giant went after Free Download Manager in particular, while similar programs haven't been targeted. The problem with FDM seems to have started with version 6.
If you have an older build, could you use it to download YouTube videos? Intrigued by this thought, I tried a slightly older version, and it gave me a different error that said "Can't process page. So, I went all the way back to version 5, and it still gave me an error, but this time it said "Parsing failure. YouTube downloads are not available.
So why were older versions displaying the error? Clearly this error isn't specific to the version being used, so it has to be server related problems. I can think of 2 possibilities.
One, something has changed on YouTube's end, which is causing the error. It seems unlikely, since I was able to download the videos using other programs. The other theory is that Free Download Manager relies on an external service for YouTube downloads, probably to parse the video links fetch the metadata, URLs, resolution, etc.
I mentioned earlier that the developer had to "turn off the option for YouTube", this is likely the intermediary service that was taken down. Here's a Web Archive version of it from April The page's disappearance does seem like a serious issue, and it remains unclear whether FDM will add support for YouTube downloads again.
Take a look at our previous article for more ways to download videos. I use 2 different ones for FF that only recently began working intermittently. Not gonna mention names not giving google harvest intel to kill them. YouTube-DLG called youtube-dl-gui in the Linux world, I seem to recall is a convenient graphical front end originally designed for youtube-dl but that seems to work fine with yt-dlp.
But nevertheless I think its a shame that the possibility is gone. Works always for me. Do not forget to use an ad blocker.
There are lots of DMCA law suits going on. See torrentfreak. FDM are just trying to protect themselves. I use Web Downloader to download youtube videos from youtube4kdownloader. Also Web Downloader is a fast and lightweight download manager but without browser integration.
I just stream youtube stuff using VLC. A fix in the form of a youtube. Youtube beta-tests downloads with Youtube Premium. This might be the reason, why they forbid it now? This fish stinks and his name is money! Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. I'm wondering: is this still an issue? I've seen something similar on a Nexus 7 with Android 5. Is it actually an issue anymore or am I just seeing ghosts? Richard Kamere Richard Kamere 9 9 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges.
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Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer? Featured on Meta. Did you guys face this and if so, how did you fix it? Is there any work-around to use DownloadManager in pre To download such a large files, you need to download those in chunks.
Either you can use any library that support HTTP range options to allow to pull down a single file in multiple pieces , supporting resume etc.
Or you can split your large file on your server then have a text file with MD5 hash of each file, when you first start to download then get the MD5 file once finish then check that hashes matches the downloaded pieces. If they do not then delete that piece and add it to queue of items to download.
There is a 4 GB per file limit with this file system. It seems that the only way to work around this on older platform versions would be to modify the server such that it uses chunked transfer encoding[1] for these large resources.
In that case, that Download Manager will ignore and not attempt to parse the Content-Length header. You can not fix the DownloadManager. If it's a bug in it, it will be so.
Therefore, in short, No , you can not workaround this issue using the DownloadManager. You could however workaround it using a server side approach that has been put into words in the other answers.
So, I think your simplest solution would be to force the minimum sdk level to JB-MR2 because ksasq mentioned that this issue has been resolved. If that is not plausible nor in your case possible, you can find the best file download library out there and create an interface similar to DownloadManager's for this library. Of course, this interface should be implemented to use the default DownloadManager for versions which do not have this bug and use the custom library for those which had this bug and for files who cause the issue if possible.
Unfortunately, a search on google showed yingyixu's android-download-manager last updated in Another unfortunate note about this topic by CommonsWare simply verifies that there is no DownloadManager in google's support libraries.
Worse is that the guy gave up the idea of implementing his own port becuase it was way too complicated. You can only hope that yingyixu's library or some other library you hopefully find is good enough. You can pass this issue by splitting file into smaller zip files. If you will not compress file split only option you should have good performance.
Other issue is that you will need twice as much storage space. You can download smaller files, about MB, write it to joined buffer and remove form file-system, that will preserve space wasting. You could also take the fixed version of DownloadManager , change the package to your package structure and use this version instead of the system version. Eventually you need to import some classes from the original package android. Then register your implementation as a service.
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