YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 8:34 AM UTC

elthran wrote: post #60

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."

I'd have more sympathy if youtube hadn't removed the "preloading" feature on the android app - I was an avid user of this feature for train journeys where I have little signal. Now I'm using downloaders. These sort of violations are always of the company's own making.

Post by giancarlostoro » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 8:37 AM UTC

Houshalter wrote: post #70

masklinn wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Post by SG- » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 8:43 AM UTC

  function play {

     youtube-dl --default-search=ytsearch: \
                --youtube-skip-dash-manifest \
                --output="${TMPDIR:-/tmp/}%(title)-s%(id)s.%(ext)s" \
                --restrict-filenames \
                --format="bestaudio[ext!=webm]" \
                --exec=mplayer -vvv "$*"
  }

Post by Houshalter » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 8:50 AM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #73

Houshalter wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I never knew this occurred, how do they do this if I open links in a new tab? Maybe if the website uses Google Analytics they might take this into account, but if they didn't have any other software from Google? I'm quite intrigued. Thanks for that post!

Post by mozumder » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 8:54 AM UTC

gbog wrote: post #69

mozumder wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 gues…