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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 userbinator »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #38

I feel like the first rule of youtube-dl is not to talk about youtube-dl. I keep expecting Google (and all the other sites it works on) to start taking active measures to disable it. At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos.

While I agree with you in principle (and have used a very similar setup for many years), I don't think HN is pro-DRM/IP enough to worry.

At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos.

...which will be cracked within days if not hours.

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

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Post by skunkworker »

mxfh wrote: post #18

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...

Elsagate is the creepiest thing I've seen on youtube in awhile.

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

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Post by cllckkrr »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #38

I feel like the first rule of youtube-dl is not to talk about youtube-dl. I keep expecting Google (and all the other sites it works on) to start taking active measures to disable it. At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos.

This is the classic cat-and-mouse game. We are pretty good at it by now.

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

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Post by JohnKacz »

swyx wrote: post #29
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.

Right. That's essentially what I was trying to say.

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

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Post by jtbayly »

swyx wrote: post #29
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.

I’m laughing at the thought of reading the Terms of Service. Anywhere.

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

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Post by milkmiruku »

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.

I set this up recently (the 'Play with MPV' method) after noting that viewing YouTube in the browser had a far greater CPU usage than watching the same in mpv.

I've also given gtk-youtube-viewer a spin but it doesn't do "new videos of your subscriptions" (though it's command=line equivalent 'youtube-viewer -SV' does). Any recommendations out there for similar YouTube frontends?

Also, at least in the UK, youtube-dl can access BBC iPlayer content without the login required on the web.

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

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Post by xfer »

shibel wrote: post #39

I’ve actually used this one for quite a nifty Python script: Invoke a Workflow from a YouTube video on my iPhone -> Dropbox file gets appended with all the details of video -> Hazel is watching this file and triggers the Python script -> which converts the video to MP3, slaps on relevant tags and cover-art and uploads it to my iCloud Music Library [1]. So I can have an MP3 song on my iPhone minutes after I’ve watched…

A lot of anime/game music is not on any streaming service; so youtube-dl is the only option.

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

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

xfer wrote: post #48
shibel wrote: post #39

I’ve actually used this one for quite a nifty Python script: Invoke a Workflow from a YouTube video on my iPhone -> Dropbox file gets appended with all the details of video -> Hazel is watching this file and triggers the Python script -> which converts the video to MP3, slaps on relevant tags and cover-art and uploads it to my iCloud Music Library [1]. So I can have an MP3 song on my iPhone minutes after I’ve watched…

A lot of anime/game music is not on any streaming service; so youtube-dl is the only option.

There are tons of anime music torrents out there, and even groups that let you xdcc download from IRC
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