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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 dangoldin »

Houshalter wrote: post #77
giancarlostoro wrote: post #73

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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!

I think just clicking the link and then clicking a different link counts against the first link. It probably doesn't matter if you actually use the back button or not. I don't know how they account for people clicking multiple links in new tabs. My guess is they reorder links sometimes so that users that click multiple links cancel each other out. They just try to maximize the probability you will click on a link and…

They might also look at the timestamp between the clicks. If they're all together they might realize it's just someone opening multiple tabs at once. If they're a few minutes apart that may mean something else.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by rooneyyyy »

I use 4K Video Downloader. It has lot of options, download subtitles along with the video, download playlists, 3D Videos, 4K Videos and lot of other options and supports lot of websites apart from YouTube.

It supports Windows, Linux and Mac, very user friendly, perfect for parents who use PC to download videos. They even have a telegram bot to download audio from YouTube, SoundCloud, Vevo, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook etc.

https://www.4kdownload.com/products/product-videodownloader

Telegram Bot : https://telegram.me/FourKDownloadBot

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by k-mcgrady »

wslh wrote: post #144
k-mcgrady wrote: post #134

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>> "It's a bit worrying how many people run to defend corporation profits by default." Not the OP but I don't think it has anything to do with corporation profits. If I spend money creating a video, put it on Youtube, and try to recoup costs through ads you're bypassing that by downloading the video with this tool.

> and try to recoup costs through ads you're bypassing that by downloading the video with this tool. 99% of the people and organizations in YouTube never recoup costs. For almost all this is wishful thinking.

It doesn't matter if they do or do not. They will recoup something and that's better than nothing.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by simula67 »

throwaway7767 wrote: post #161
Houshalter wrote: post #77

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I think just clicking the link and then clicking a different link counts against the first link. It probably doesn't matter if you actually use the back button or not. I don't know how they account for people clicking multiple links in new tabs. My guess is they reorder links sometimes so that users that click multiple links cancel each other out. They just try to maximize the probability you will click on a link and…

Do you have any reference to confirm that google does this? I really doubt it would be a useful heuristic, as just because someone opens another search result does not mean the first one was not valuable. Not saying they don't, but it seems unlikely and I'd be curious to know if this can be confirmed.

When Marissa Mayer was working on Google User Experience she mentioned that Google did this : https://youtu.be/LT1UFZSbcxE?t=3462

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by zeeZ »

chriswarbo wrote: post #139
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.

> 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 can understand why many people will avoid using commandlines. The part I don't understand is how they're quite comfortable when those commandlines are surrounded by "Forward", "Back", "Stop" and "Reload" buttons; or when they have an "I'm feeling lucky" button underneath. In the case of t…

You missed a couple steps at the beginning there:

- Select browser icon

- Double click browser icon

- Click into search box

- Type "youtube"

- Disregard suggestions, hit enter

- Click on first thing that says YouTube

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by asddubs »

lottin wrote: post #54

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.

Don't know why this is being downvoted. VLC can play .part files of many formats, but not if they're seperate streams. I wish there was a way to just download the highest format that will download only one file.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by rasz_pl »

chriswarbo wrote: post #139
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.

> 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 can understand why many people will avoid using commandlines. The part I don't understand is how they're quite comfortable when those commandlines are surrounded by "Forward", "Back", "Stop" and "Reload" buttons; or when they have an "I'm feeling lucky" button underneath. In the case of t…

>youtube-dl actually has quite sane defaults

not really, if you copy url of a clip in a playlist it will start downloading WHOLE playlist :(

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by mti27 »

jccalhoun wrote: post #169
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

another good gui is this web-based one: http://www.alltubedownload.net/

The pafy python add-in library is good too, although it is command-line it's really easy and well-documented.

http://pythonhosted.org/Pafy/

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