Looooooove this package! Use `youtube-dl` regularly and always forget the params. It's a nightmare.
Opened a PR to remove Lodash, emojis welcomed: https://github.com/synox/youtube-dl-interactive/pull/3
Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
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Re: Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don’t see why, if anything more people should know about it so shared content can become more redundant as people download it across the world. YouTube is a fairly brittle hub sometimes with all the takedowns.
I suspect the GP is concerned Youtube will take steps to block it. This scares me a bit too, I watch basically all Youtube content via Youtube-dl. I have a script that runs every night on Mac, so that new content automagically appears in my Movies folder.
would love to know more about this. do you just download new videos from your subscriptions? what sort of script? can you share it? :-)
Re: Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
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Not to mention "they can download our stuff but have to use a CLI" makes rights holders feel like it's a niche application that can't threaten their bottom line so don't worry about taking steps to prevent it. What needs to stay under the radar are the dozens of downloader sites and GUI apps that offer the same functionality and ten times the convenience.
loudly so the rights holders can hear Yes that's right, clicking 15 times for every single file is easier than having a script automatically download a series. ;)
I tap on a playlist, tap the download button, and tap the quality I want. I don't know what sort of garbage app you're used to.
Re: Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
#44Jesus .. the package.json alone is probably longer then a shellscript would be that implements the same functionality.
Re: Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don’t see why, if anything more people should know about it so shared content can become more redundant as people download it across the world. YouTube is a fairly brittle hub sometimes with all the takedowns.
I suspect the GP is concerned Youtube will take steps to block it. This scares me a bit too, I watch basically all Youtube content via Youtube-dl. I have a script that runs every night on Mac, so that new content automagically appears in my Movies folder.
Yep, exactly. When I fly i like to buffer a few hours worth of videos
Re: Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
loudly so the rights holders can hear Yes that's right, clicking 15 times for every single file is easier than having a script automatically download a series. ;)
I tap on a playlist, tap the download button, and tap the quality I want. I don't know what sort of garbage app you're used to.
Well my tongue was firmly in cheek, I don't think one is particularly harder than the other.
Re: Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
#47'Because remembering CLI flags is hard.'
Indeed. :)
Re: Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
#48Jesus .. the package.json alone is probably longer then a shellscript would be that implements the same functionality.
I would love to see the shellscript equivalent! :))
Re: Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
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Sure, the the node code uses fewer lines than the Go code. But what you’ve failed to notice is the Go code calls APIs directly rather than fork()ing and does so within its own code base (how many lines of code is in the countless imports of your node example?). Plus the Go code also has unit tests which the others don’t. Line numbers are always a terrible metric for proving anything but in this case your especially a…
In absence of more accessible complexity measurements, line counts do matter somewhat. E.g. the briefer a program is, the more readable it is (last time I checked, brainpower and time is much more expensive than computing power and bandwidth.) The Node example has zero external dependencies outside of the Node.js standard library.
> In absence of more accessible complexity measurements, line counts do matter somewhat. E.g. the briefer a program is, the more readable it is (last time I checked, brainpower and time is much more expensive than computing power and bandwidth.)
There are as many exceptions to that rule are there are examples when it’s true. Code golfing, minifified code, shell 1 liners, Perl, etc.
Line counts mean jack shit.
Re: Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don’t see why, if anything more people should know about it so shared content can become more redundant as people download it across the world. YouTube is a fairly brittle hub sometimes with all the takedowns.
I suspect the GP is concerned Youtube will take steps to block it. This scares me a bit too, I watch basically all Youtube content via Youtube-dl. I have a script that runs every night on Mac, so that new content automagically appears in my Movies folder.
They do block it. Which is why it doesn't work if you install from your OS repo. You need to get it directly from GitHub.