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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 jmnicolas »

gbog wrote: post #69
mozumder wrote: post #65

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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…

> I guess it is better now but for a long time you had to do some port forwarding

Nothing has changed for me. Did I miss something ?

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by panglott »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #114
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…

Well, I guess I cause a LOT of bad rankings for sites. I tend to just open a lot of results in different tabs, then go through them one by one.

Me too, but I don't click on links that look obviously bad. I open the half-dozen or so most promising links.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by milge »

Recently, I wrote a chrome plugin that saves information of all of the songs I listen to on youtube to amazon since youtube's history API is shit. Theoretically, I could write a nightly job that runs YouTube-dl to turn all of those videos into MP3s. Taking it even further, I could run a nightly SyncMe job on my phone to copy the MP3s locally. A setup like this would be good for people with limited phone bandwidth. Imagine not having to search out MP3s anymore. Is it still considered pirating if a robot does it?

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by phonyphonecall »

milge wrote: post #183

Recently, I wrote a chrome plugin that saves information of all of the songs I listen to on youtube to amazon since youtube's history API is shit. Theoretically, I could write a nightly job that runs YouTube-dl to turn all of those videos into MP3s. Taking it even further, I could run a nightly SyncMe job on my phone to copy the MP3s locally. A setup like this would be good for people with limited phone bandwidth. Im…

Unfortunately, the robot only does what you tell it to do.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by Kenji »

milge wrote: post #183

Recently, I wrote a chrome plugin that saves information of all of the songs I listen to on youtube to amazon since youtube's history API is shit. Theoretically, I could write a nightly job that runs YouTube-dl to turn all of those videos into MP3s. Taking it even further, I could run a nightly SyncMe job on my phone to copy the MP3s locally. A setup like this would be good for people with limited phone bandwidth. Im…

Yeah but how are they gonna detect it. Streaming a video is pretty much indistinguishable from downloading since that's what you actually do. If there's no claimant, there's no judge. I'd say things like that are de facto legal since it cannot be enforced.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by mavhc »

tachion wrote: post #128
mavhc wrote: post #101

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Nice, although it crashes when given RTMPE youtube links.

What's an RTMPE link?

Encrypted streaming, eg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsWrShXPDPo

4 year old bug https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/343

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Post by exhilaration »

rasz_pl wrote: post #178
chriswarbo wrote: post #139

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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 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 :(

I think that's an amazing feature. It does the same thing for Soundcloud playlists.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by evanreichard »

sdk77 wrote: post #150

I'm in China and streaming youtube videos is mostly out of the question, due to the very unpredictable and usually too slow nature of connectivity (I gave up on VPN long time ago and use a number of strategically placed cheap virtual servers). Over the years, youtube-dl has been a godsend. I ssh into one of my servers, download the video and then rsync it over to my laptop. Most of the time I don't really need to hav…

Why not use an SSH tunnel as a SOCKS proxy? Would save you a few steps there.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by plug »

What a funny coincidence - I just discovered and used this a few hours ago. I wanted to rip some YT audio from (mostly) old records that I have that are not on Spotify etc.

I looked at some browser plugins but I wasn't really impressed. This, on the other hand, was a great discovery. Really configurable and well documented.

Assuming you have `ffmpeg` installed just run:

`youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 $URL`

and you're done! I expect my phone will be packed of bizarre prog/jazz before the end of the weekend :D

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