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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.
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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…
Already too complicated for my parents. I have shown my mother how to open her downloads folder for over a decade and she still can't do it. Sigh.
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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.
Here's something i've added to my .bashrc that lets me type in simply 'play ' using youtube-dl and mplayer (I forget where I found this gem, and sorry for weird formatting, won): function play { youtube-dl --default-search=ytsearch: \ --youtube-skip-dash-manifest \ --output="${TMPDIR:-/tmp/}%(title)-s%(id)s.%(ext)s" \ --restrict-filenames \ --format="bestaudio[ext!=webm]" \ --exec=mplayer -vvv "$*" } play rick astley…
ytdl()
{
mkdir /tmp/ytdl && cd /tmp/ytdl
for item in "$@" ; do youtube-dl "$@" ; done ;
mv /tmp/ytdl/* ~/Desktop/
rm -rf /tmp/ytdl
exit
}
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…
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Using Wireshark is sort of illegal in Germany.
Can you elaborate?
Germany introduced a poorly-worded cybercrime law that basically made all network tools illegal (including nmap, wi-spy), but also disassemblers, on the basis that they "could be used in digital crime".
It's similar to making cars illegal because of a traffic fatality.
Here's something i've added to my .bashrc that lets me type in simply 'play ' using youtube-dl and mplayer (I forget where I found this gem, and sorry for weird formatting, won): function play { youtube-dl --default-search=ytsearch: \ --youtube-skip-dash-manifest \ --output="${TMPDIR:-/tmp/}%(title)-s%(id)s.%(ext)s" \ --restrict-filenames \ --format="bestaudio[ext!=webm]" \ --exec=mplayer -vvv "$*" } play rick astley…
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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.
From https://www.youtube.com/red : "Enjoy videos without ads–and in the background or offline on mobile devices"
Great work guys! Thanks for creating such an awesome piece of software.
The only thing that irritates me about youtube-dl is that by default it will try download audio and video tracks separately and then remux them on your computer. While it's a cool feature, I don't think this is what most people want 99% of the time.