YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

Post by arprocter » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 5:40 PM UTC

aluhut wrote: post #35

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…

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

  #!/bin/bash
  clear
  youtube-dl -U
  echo " "
  echo "YouTube Downloader Script"
  echo "A video file will be created in the folder where this script is located"
  echo " "
  echo "Please paste a URL and hit [ENTER]:"
  read URL
  youtube-dl $URL

Post by at-fates-hands » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:17 PM UTC

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…

Post by Walkman » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:21 PM UTC

Post by zyngaro » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:33 PM UTC

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…

Post by clarry » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 6:46 PM UTC

asddubs wrote: post #177

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.

    -f best