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YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by MichaelGG »

nitrogen wrote: post #45
guycook wrote: post #43

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If they knew about it, sure. All it would take is a 3 step (after initial download) instructional with some screenshots: 1. Open Explorer where you downloaded youtube-dl 2. Shift+Right click -> Open command window here 3. Type 'youtube-dl ' and paste url[0], then enter As I said it really is a discoverability problem, one that the organiser of the world's information is neither incentivised nor really expected to add…

[0] ok, this is a pain pre Win 10, but ^V is supported now Just gotta remember the old "Alt-Space, E, P" shortcut sequence. And Alt-Space, E, K for selecting/copying.

What's wrong with right-click?

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by rplnt »

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…

SMPlayer, which I use, includes some sort of yt downloader, not that I ever used it.

As for the SEO - I haven't had any problems in the last years. First or second hit was a working webpage that gave me the downlaod url (not much options though).

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by dstryr »

pilif wrote: post #44
Kristine1975 wrote: post #2

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…

-f also supports some symbolic names, which is very handy because it allows you to easily get the best possible quality without having to check the formats every time: -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]' this is what I'm using in my case (on youtube). Posting this here, because it's not obvious from the docs that this works.

I'm pretty sure the '-f best' setting is the default for updated versions of ytdl, so no real need for that.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by mozumder »

guycook wrote: post #43
jmnicolas wrote: post #29

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Your family members would use a command line app ?

If they knew about it, sure. All it would take is a 3 step (after initial download) instructional with some screenshots: 1. Open Explorer where you downloaded youtube-dl 2. Shift+Right click -> Open command window here 3. Type 'youtube-dl ' and paste url[0], then enter As I said it really is a discoverability problem, one that the organiser of the world's information is neither incentivised nor really expected to add…

This is about 2 steps longer than most family member capabilities.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by chunkiestbacon »

CalRobert wrote: post #52
zavi wrote: post #8

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- Illegal

Yeah? Is Wireshark illegal too? Because I could get the same data by taking a pcap. The bits are on my computer. I get that I can't just go redistributing it (legally), and that youtube probably doesn't _like_ it, but if it's illegal (and honestly, maybe it is in the US given how ridiculous copyright and licensing law is there) that's ridiculous.

Using Wireshark is sort of illegal in Germany.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by wingerlang »

melicerte wrote: post #41
awqrre wrote: post #5

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I like this command to extract audio from youtube videos: youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3

That's my main use of youtube-dl for years now. I'm extracting audio from old french movies available on youtube, work a small sound extract with audacity and then post the result on soudcloud[1]. [1] A bit of self-promotion here, if you are interested this is my soundcloud playlist https://soundcloud.com/melicerte/sets/extraits-de-vieux-film...

Why?

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by gbog »

mozumder wrote: post #65
guycook wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they knew about it, sure. All it would take is a 3 step (after initial download) instructional with some screenshots: 1. Open Explorer where you downloaded youtube-dl 2. Shift+Right click -> Open command window here 3. Type 'youtube-dl ' and paste url[0], then enter As I said it really is a discoverability problem, one that the organiser of the world's information is neither incentivised nor really expected to add…

This is about 2 steps longer than most family member capabilities.

Always the same argument, and still wrong. It depends 100% on the desirability of the expected result. I have seen a non-IT guy do an incredibly complex serie of super user operations on his PC just to install CS. He was very motivated. But if you asked him to install Chrome in place of IE he would even understand what it meant.

Same: many people still use peer-to-peer software to download movies, mostly porn. I guess it is better now but for a long time you had to do some port forwarding -- yes, port forwarding -- on your home router to get bearable download speed. Nowadays it still seem very difficult to get the proper non English subtitles for movies, but it is very attractive so people do it despite all the "steps".

So, please, let's stop this "Family memebers are below-two-clicks stupid" mantra. It is false. The truths is: they usually do not care enough for the second click. When they do care enough, typing a command line is very feasible.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by Houshalter »

masklinn wrote: post #55
ProfOak_ wrote: post #36

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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

guycook's lament is about the findability of the project for laypeople, not about its interface. The interface is not an issue when laypeople can't find the project in the first place.

Well the reason it has a bad ranking is because it isn't accessible to lay people. People might click the link and say "how do I install pip? Whats a PATH variable?" (or even "What's a command line?") and click back to the search page. Google counts that as a vote against that site, hence the bad ranking.
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