Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

rg3.github.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 338 posts

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

#31

Post by kragniz »

Kristine1975 wrote: post #18
danso wrote: post #4

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)

These days it's all about the webms, though. Luckily youtube-dl is even more useful for that.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

#32

Post by kalessin »

guycook wrote: post #28

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…

I literally taught my younger brother how to pip install --upgrade youtube-dl from cmd.exe and then use it.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

#33

Post by Lanari »

jmnicolas wrote: post #29
guycook wrote: post #28

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…

Your family members would use a command line app ?

His family members are a lines of code...

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

#35

Post by aluhut »

guycook wrote: post #28

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…

It's not easy because it's an command line.

Not a single family member would touch this here.

It's sad but understandable.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

#36

Post by ProfOak_ »

guycook wrote: post #28

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…

I found this neat project that adds a GUI to YouTube-dl. It looks like an easy program for non-technical people to use.

https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

#37

Post by blowski »

reacweb wrote: post #19
zavi wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- Illegal

The legality of recording a video stream you can watch on your PC is very dependent of your country. I think it should be legal as long as you keep your recording for your personal usage.

I agree, and the ethics also depend on what you're doing with the video. IANAL so I can't comment on legality.

I download some conference videos from YouTube to watch on my train journey. I can't stream them because reception on the train isn't good enough. It's the only place I can find the videos (they're not available for sale) and I don't share them with anybody afterwards.

I don't consider that to be unethical, and I don't imagine the police are going to hunt me down.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

#38

Post by kittxkat »

Bouncingsoul1 wrote: post #17
jtokoph wrote: post #6

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

-Python integration I used it to write a small program for my Raspi. Send a playlist link (Youtube or other) via WhatsApp or Email. Download, copy to according folder. Have it available on my Multimedia System and OwnCloud for my friends.

That sounds pretty interesting, care to share the code?

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

#39

Post by okso »

jtokoph wrote: post #6

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

Also: - Works with videos integrated in pages from any website

No need to first jump on Youtube/Vimeo/... for the source URL of the video.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

#40

Post by [deleted] »

extrapolar wrote: post #24

Note that it is against YouTube's ToS to download videos: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms "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."

[deleted]
Post reply on HN