YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

Post by yohui » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 5:01 PM UTC

Houshalter wrote: post #105

ptman wrote: post #102

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"We also provide a Windows executable that includes Python." I read this as not having to install python for it to work. I think some powershell commands that have required arguments start interactively prompting the user for values for those arguments if they aren't specified on the command line. That would probably work: 1. Download youtube-dl.exe 2. double-click 3. youtube-dl.exe notices the lack of url as argumen…

That may be correct, but the download page explicitly says "Remember youtube-dl requires Python version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+ to work." and links to python's website. I tried renaming Python.exe and it still worked, so I have no idea what's up with it.

Post by vivab0rg » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 5:15 PM UTC

magicalhobo wrote: post #80

elthran wrote: post #60

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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"

Post by ekimekim » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 5:20 PM UTC

tombrossman wrote: post #84

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…

One very minor annoyance I had was using it with BBC iPlayer. It works, but downloads the video as many dozens of tiny parts to reassemble. Since I use ~/Desktop as my default downloads folder, I created this to keep my desktop uncluttered while it runs: ytdl() { mkdir /tmp/ytdl && cd /tmp/ytdl for item in "$@" ; do youtube-dl "$@" ; done ; mv /tmp/ytdl/* ~/Desktop/ rm -rf /tmp/ytdl exit } Now I can Ctrl + Alt + T a…

Post by ngokevin » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 5:26 PM UTC

lozf wrote: post #167

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?

Soundcloud is on the list of supported sites for youtube-dl and has worked perfectly for quite a while (unless Soundcloud broke something in the last few months).

Post by aluhut » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 5:34 PM UTC

CalRobert wrote: post #53

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.

Depends on the family. My mom taught me DOS.