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Some of the things that make this the 'ultimate': - Supports hundreds of services, not just youtube [0] - Allows you to extract audio in multiple formats - Download entire playlists (and general batch support) - Configure video/audio quality - Extract/build metadata - Cross platform [0] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
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I like this command to extract audio from youtube videos: youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3
Or you could use -x, which would only download the audio (because there's seperate audio and video streams on youtube).
alias youtubemp3='youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3'Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Not illegal perhaps but violates the TOS
once something is published on the internet then it is assumed it can be viewed / copied / downloaded / etc.
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping , the legal issues part.
"You may access Content for your information and personal use solely as intended through the provided functionality of the Service and as permitted under these Terms of Service. You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content."
I've been using it for years now and it's great. Not only for Youtube videos, but also for a lot of other video hosters, up to and including TV stations such as the German ZDF or the French Arte. To fully use its features you should install ffmpeg though. Youtube-dl will automatically use it if it's in the PATH, and then can download Youtube videos with higher frame rates and resolutions (they store video and audio i…
Some of the things that make this the 'ultimate': - Supports hundreds of services, not just youtube [0] - Allows you to extract audio in multiple formats - Download entire playlists (and general batch support) - Configure video/audio quality - Extract/build metadata - Cross platform [0] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
- Illegal
It's a bit worrying how many people run to defend corporation profits by default.
The amount of crapware I've had to remove from family member's PCs just because they wanted to save a video is ridiculous.
The tragedy of this software (and many like it) is that despite working exactly as advertised, easily and with a lot of features, because it's a quiet open source project without any SEO rigging it will never appear in page 1 of any searches by laymen trying to download videos ("save youtube to hard drive", "download youtube videos" et al). The amount of crapware I've had to remove from family member's PCs just becau…
Mostly OT: A friend of mine posted this article from his local newspaper as an example of how slow news is in his town: http://www.ottumwacourier.com/news/local_news/what-is-a-gif/... > What is a GIF? > OTTUMWA — Chances are if you have been on the Internet lately, you have encountered a GIF...In honor of National Teen Tech Week, the Ottumwa Public Library offered a session on GIF making for local teens Saturday afte…
Don't knock gif, it's still used a lot on image boards[1] and most likely Facebook etc, too. Knowing how to make them can be quite useful for today's teens. [1] E.g. 4chan, which even has its own boards just for animated gifs: /gif/ (NSFW) and /wsg/ (SFW)