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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 OJFord »

mootothemax wrote: post #118
dalore wrote: post #111

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SEO rigging? That's mostly having links from other reputable sources. If this software is good, other good sites will link to it rising it up in the search results. Lot's of open source projects come up top of the results when you search for stuff because of this fact.

>SEO rigging? That's mostly having links from other reputable sources. If this software is good, other good sites will link to it rising it up in the search results You have tell Google what your site is about, otherwise it's pretty hopeless; you're pretty much well asking Google to guess what terms the site should rank for. The five-minute-basics this site needs are to create a meaningful title tag (getting "YouTube…

    > The problem is so bad, I know lots of people - myself
    > included - who hunt for projects first on Github, and
    > Google a distant second.
Seriously?

I search with `site:github.com` all the time.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by broodbucket »

ekianjo wrote: post #117
aluhut wrote: post #35

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It's not easy because it's an command line. Not a single family member would touch this here. It's sad but understandable.

I prefer cli 1000 times over an overly badly designed gui anytime

Sure, but that's not the point, the point is most people are intimidated by a command line and don't want to have to learn it to accomplish the thing they're trying to do

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by scrollaway »

SG- wrote: post #75

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…

FWIW, mpv (a very good fork of mplayer) integrates youtube-dl by default. So you can do `mpv "https://youtube.com/..."`.

In fact, VLC does too.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by raihansaputra »

kragniz wrote: post #31
Kristine1975 wrote: post #18

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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.

but manually downloading each image/webm in a thread is not fun. i resort to use httrack and it works wonderfully.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by mootothemax »

OJFord wrote: post #121
mootothemax wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>SEO rigging? That's mostly having links from other reputable sources. If this software is good, other good sites will link to it rising it up in the search results You have tell Google what your site is about, otherwise it's pretty hopeless; you're pretty much well asking Google to guess what terms the site should rank for. The five-minute-basics this site needs are to create a meaningful title tag (getting "YouTube…

> The problem is so bad, I know lots of people - myself > included - who hunt for projects first on Github, and > Google a distant second. Seriously? I search with `site:github.com` all the time.

>Seriously?

>I search with `site:github.com` all the time.

Yup - I find that Google's index isn't always as fresh as Github's, and being able to filter by code vs. repository vs. issues and then by language if necessary is a great help.

Basically, for me, finding open-source projects is a real unsolved problem!

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by Quequau »

Houshalter wrote: post #95
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…

I happen to be on a fresh copy of Windows 7 right now, so I'm going to try it. I expect to encounter at least several steps where a nontechnical user would be totally lost or frustrated. 1. Download Python 2.7 and install. Encountered error where the installer stopped with no indication that it had completed or failed. Tried to install again and it messed up the original installer which was hiding in the background a…

It strikes me that with Microsoft working with Canonical to bring an Ubuntu like command line to Windows that it probably includes something like apt. This doesn't completely address your larger point but it probably would make the process easier.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by Al-Khwarizmi »

kqr wrote: post #113
CalRobert wrote: post #53

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Depends on the family. My mom taught me DOS.

Well... My mom did teach me DOS, and programming, and a lot of other things – but these days she doesn't have that kind of patience anymore. If things don't work right away, out the window they go. For a lot of people the patience with technology decreases as they age.

Absolutely. I'm also an example of that. 15 years ago it was difficult to see my PC tower closed and without the entrails exposed, I was always trying strange Linux distributions and stuff like BSD or BeOS, and I configured everything I could in OSs and programs.

Now, if my hardware fails I just call tech support, I mostly use Windows, I almost never spend more than 5 minutes configuring anything, and any program I need to compile from sources is basically a no-no except if it's something I really need or can't avoid. In fact I'm so lazy that I tend not to install games that aren't on Steam, after being spoiled by Steam anything harder than double clicking to install game in each of my PCs seems like too much work to me.

In other aspects I don't think I'm so different from 15 years ago, this laziness with technology may be the aspect where I think age has manifested the most!

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by tachion »

mavhc wrote: post #101
tachion wrote: post #76

There's a web app[0] that uses youtube-dl to provide non-cli functionality. Does anyone knows if there's similar tool/lib in Go? [0] http://pullz.in

Nice, although it crashes when given RTMPE youtube links.

What's an RTMPE link?

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by blablabla123 »

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…

Yeah, you really need to go through the documentation if you want to download something the way you want. I guess it's more like wget.
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