I'm also trying to get Patreon downloading to work. Is there really not a straightforward way to do it? yt-dlp is worthless. There are extensions that effortlessly rip OF content, why is Patreon so difficult?
Edit: After tinkering a little more, I got Bamrikotito's method to work with yt-dlp (Patreon doesn't seem to give their URLs in that format with the magic number given right away). Here's how I got it to work:
Play video -> right click on video -> frame source -> the URL to use with yt-dlp is right there in the player.vimeo.com format. Note that the page source will not show that URL in the correct format. Then plug it into the command prompt with the --referrer
thing. Note: I have to open the video in VLC, my default Windows video player can't run it.
Also, the referer
part isn't necessary.