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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 Mahn »

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…

To be fair, it it wasn't a crapware YouTube Downloader, it would be something else. As long as "computer intuition" doesn't become more commonplace, we are always going to have this problem despite our best efforts to get rid of crapware on the net.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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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…

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Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by goldenrules »

goldenrules wrote: post #151

i love youtube-dl. i've been interested in doing the same with soundcloud, but i have no idea how to go about learning how their streaming works. any advice for where to start?

thanks! i must have glossed over that when i first discovered youtube-dl. like countless others before, i found out how to do the one thing i needed to and ignored the rest of the tool's utility.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by vbit »

zwetan wrote: post #23
vbit wrote: post #15

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Not illegal perhaps but violates the TOS

how enforceable is the TOS ? once something is published on the internet then it is assumed it can be viewed / copied / downloaded / etc. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping , the legal issues part.

Copyright is different and enforceable - see what RIAA did to some downloaders.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by aluhut »

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…

I'm curious. So you think, this may work as an argument? You think that if I tell my parents this, they'll suddenly start using the command line?

Let me tell you how it works now:

I've installed a download addon for them. Because they have no idea and before they install crap, I'll do it for them.

I did not explain anything nor did I tell them that I did install that addon.

They automatically clicked the red "download" icon under every youtube video they watch and it downloads the video.

So short: 1 step.

This is userfriendly and easy.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by Jarwin »

Not just YouTube, over 200 websites including daily motion, vimeo and, well were all adults here so I'm just gonna say it,pornhub. Supports authentication. And you can download with any format using -f flag. Also I'm not sure about that, but I thing you can use apt-get to download it as well.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by aluhut »

cheshire_cat wrote: post #162
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.

If you are looking for something to give your family members, almost everyone I know uses the open-source tool jdownloader [0] to download youtube videos. It's a ponderous java monster but it works great and comes with a huge plugin collection for numerous sites. The fact that it has a gui makes it really accessibly to non-technical people. There seems to be talk about AdWare in the installer but I personally never h…

I know jdownloader. Have been using it in it's early days for 1-click hosters on a separate machine. Don't trust it at all ;)

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by lanterk »

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…

For 9, I would just go with youtube-dl -f 140 (or 141 in some cases). No reason for lossy->lossy conversion.

Re: YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

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Post by k4rtik »

User for >4 years. Absolutely love the nifty little tool. But I hated opening up a terminal each time I wanted to initiate a download.

For PopClip[1] users on Mac, I made a little YouTube-dl extension[2] which lets you initiate the download just by selecting the video URL (best when done from browser's address bar) and clicking a button. Been using it as my primary ytdl client for past 5 months now.

[1]: https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/

[2]: https://github.com/k4rtik/popclip-ytdl

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