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https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext...
I always use it to rip TV or radio shows from German public stations
The only bug I found is that name escaping sometimes breaks, but I usually name things manually. Ffmpeg audio conversion needs to be done manually, but that's just an extra line.
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This is the classic cat-and-mouse game. We are pretty good at it by now.
I don't know. Netflix is doing a pretty good job shutting down VPN proxying. Yes, I know there are some providers that still work... Shhhh! However, it's a lot easier for Netflix to blacklist an IP (or an entire IP range) than it is for a provider to setup a whole new proxy - likely connected via a residential ISP.
A very useful and "secret" feature: you can give youtube-dl the URL of a playlist instead of a single video and it will download all of them.
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...
https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/8vs5na/what_kids_re...
disclaimer: i did not watch the video, but guessed from reading the reddit comments
Please stop talking about this, I love how it is now!
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.
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.
That would be sad, but I'll ditch Youtube for good if they'll introduce this garbage.
YouTube while it may contain a lot of video of content is really actually pretty poor product IMO. Lots of buffering, lots of ads, the apps have terrible UX as does the website and now that google is becoming less and less trustful (some would say always were but just becoming more evil with more data) I welcome video content hosted elsewhere. I really like Vimeo not just for the performance and video quality but I also find the interface quite good to use, it would probably need some adjustments if it were to take on the amount of content YouTube has.
I presume this is only for the occasional thing that people are afraid will disappear from youtube or is there some other reason for downloading that I'm missing?
I use this to download for offline viewing (such as when traveling), or to download and number an entire playlist at a time into a directory full of video files.