This file could harm your computer

After downloading the 4k software for downloading youtube videos, i get a message saying this file could harm my computer,keep or discard.

1 Answer

Delete 4K Video Downloader and install youtube-dl (sudo snap install youtube-dl) instead. youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other sites that don't provide direct links to the videos served.

youtube-dl allows the user, among other things, to choose a specific video quality to download (if available) or let the program automatically determine the best (or worst) quality video to grab. It supports downloading entire playlists and all videos from a given user.

Example:

sudo snap install youtube-dl # installs the latest version
cd ~/Desktop
snap run youtube-dl -F
snap run youtube-dl -f 18 

Note: youtube-dl is also able to recognize URLs of the form