Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos • Hacker News Board

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by StavrosK » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 1:13 AM UTC

The most useful part of youtube-dl is that it works with mpv, so you just pass a URL on the command line and MPV just plays the video in it.

I have two monitors, so I put a button on my Firefox toolbar to launch MPV with the current URL, and configured MPV to start fullscreen on the second monitor immediately and quit when done. It's made my video-watching experience on the web an order of magnitude better.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by lettergram » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 1:14 AM UTC

Ive been watching this repo for over a while. It's very active and I highly recommend trying it out. It's a pretty nifty project with a lot or activity.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by voltagex_ » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 1:16 AM UTC

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452765

Some good discussion there.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by pwaai » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 1:17 AM UTC

I just hit download and I can watch any movie on Premium, but i appreciate this tool as well

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by sevrex » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 1:17 AM UTC

I've been using this for years and it is absolutley excellent

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by ehsankia » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 1:18 AM UTC

rolodato wrote: post #4

"From YouTube.com" is a massive understatement. youtube-dl can download from pretty much any video site, including porn sites: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais...

Full list of supported sites: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by iosDrone » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 1:20 AM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #8

Firerouge wrote: post #3

For Mac users, this can be easily installed and updated using brew.

or macports

Or brew :P

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by mxfh » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 1:22 AM UTC

Since letting kids alone on youtube, is clusterf* of a nightmare, this is a godsend tool to archive approved channels to a local media server.

This config file (with separate channel-list- and archive-files) template found here, has proven quite useful to me combined with some minimal batch job:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/858ny5/my_yout...

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by ekianjo » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 1:25 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #11

The most useful part of youtube-dl is that it works with mpv, so you just pass a URL on the command line and MPV just plays the video in it. I have two monitors, so I put a button on my Firefox toolbar to launch MPV with the current URL, and configured MPV to start fullscreen on the second monitor immediately and quit when done. It's made my video-watching experience on the web an order of magnitude better.

yup. you can a quick macro in qtebrowser as well. It gets rid of ads nicely too.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by ekianjo » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 1:26 AM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #10

I’m particular to jdownloader. http://jdownloader.org Works on so many downloading services and also YouTube.

its much bigger, size wise. Youtube-dl also works perfectly from the command line.