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Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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

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Post by superkuh »

I've been using this ever since youtube dropped flash support. Early this year youtube began throttling certain file formats and qualities. The way around this is to call youtube-dl so that it uses an external downloader like,

--external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args "-j 8 -s 8"

I wrap the entire thing up in some shell script as a .bashrc function which takes a URL, touches the downloaded file (since youtube-dl saves the youtube file modified date), then opens it in vlc.

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

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Post by rapfaria »

voltagex_ wrote: post #9
toomuchtodo wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adding additional extractors is also trivial.

Have you got an example? I couldn't work out how to do it last time, but it's easier for me to get an Australian geoblocked site going than it is to submit a bug report and wait for someone to use a proxy.

You can search through pull requests to see a few examples, but I wouldn't say it's that simple. Login in and authentication can be very different for each website.

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

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Post by throwvondannen »

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...

Title should be changed to reflect this fact.

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

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Post by JohnKacz »

Gotta be careful sometimes. At least one tutorial video site I used it on (where an account was needed) I was blocked and had to open a ticket to re-enable my account by promising not to break their ToS which said something explicit about not downloading a bunch of their videos. (I was using it on whole courses and got flagged)

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

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Post by YaxelPerez »

omeid2 wrote: post #6
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...

All those NSFW labels. Maybe after all internet is made for pom.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think advances in video streaming tech were pioneered by "cam girls" (porn).

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

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Post by dang »

throwvondannen wrote: post #23
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...

Title should be changed to reflect this fact.

Title has been truncated to reflect this fact.

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

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Post by swyx »

JohnKacz wrote: post #24

Gotta be careful sometimes. At least one tutorial video site I used it on (where an account was needed) I was blocked and had to open a ticket to re-enable my account by promising not to break their ToS which said something explicit about not downloading a bunch of their videos. (I was using it on whole courses and got flagged)

i mean... you were breaking the TOS though. that was a risk you presumably are comfortable with.
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