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Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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There's this too: https://github.com/deepjyoti30/ytmdl

A neat tool, but YouTube is generally an abysmal source for music. That's partly deliberate (from record labels) and partly an inevitable consequence of recompression with different lossy formats.

Unless something is completely unavailable elsewhere, you'll find far better audio quality from other (original) sources.

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

#22

One of the nice features added to yt-dlp recently: It integrates with sponskrub to call into the SponsorBlock database and with the right options will strip the sponsor segments from downloaded videos. Edit: Correct typo

dlc? Don't tell me that's a different one...

Whoops, typo on my part. Sorry about that.

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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post #21
post #9

There's this too: https://github.com/deepjyoti30/ytmdl

A neat tool, but YouTube is generally an abysmal source for music. That's partly deliberate (from record labels) and partly an inevitable consequence of recompression with different lossy formats. Unless something is completely unavailable elsewhere, you'll find far better audio quality from other (original) sources.

That and a lot of music I have found on there has a music video version of the song which can sometimes be slightly different than the original song. It's usually something like a longer intro before the music starts or something like cheering from a crowd or whatever to mimic it being a live performance music video. So you're getting a subpar sound quality combined with a sometimes differing song from the original.

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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post #21
post #9

There's this too: https://github.com/deepjyoti30/ytmdl

A neat tool, but YouTube is generally an abysmal source for music. That's partly deliberate (from record labels) and partly an inevitable consequence of recompression with different lossy formats. Unless something is completely unavailable elsewhere, you'll find far better audio quality from other (original) sources.

It's not so much about availability or even quality as it is convenience for a lot of us. Soviet funk here, favorite TV news theme there, C64 remixes over here, NPR tiny desk over this way, and a rendition of the full original vocal lyrics to the M:I theme which is basically only available on YT itself...

I can't imagine trying to source this stuff independently and keeping up with it, and if some commercial music crept in I imagine it'd be easier to simply stay on YT and ask what level of quality one subjectively needs for dental drilling, or mindless work, or throne-in-lair-sitting, or whatever it is...

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

#25
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And they've closed many issues as duplicates with no further explanation given: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860

Have they been duplicates?

The linked issue contains several issues describing the same problem, but what I meant to say was that which duplicate they were of was never made clear. The maintainers seemed to assume that everyone knew what it was and never provided a link to the original issue.

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

#27

One of the nice features added to yt-dlp recently: It integrates with sponskrub to call into the SponsorBlock database and with the right options will strip the sponsor segments from downloaded videos. Edit: Correct typo

Are the sponsor parts really so bad? To me not only is it easy to skip, I want indie people to make enough money to produce high quality content; otherwise media is just what a few biggies want to fund. They’re not enough from YouTube itself unless you’re in the top percentile.

Also what sponsored content are people downloading versus just streaming live? I don’t get the use case.

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

#28

One of the nice features added to yt-dlp recently: It integrates with sponskrub to call into the SponsorBlock database and with the right options will strip the sponsor segments from downloaded videos. Edit: Correct typo

Man I thought I was in heaven when I accidentally stumbled upon SponsorBlock. Now you're telling me about this?! Amazing! How does the video quality fare after stripping? Is it re-encoding the video or somehow stripping it without altering the quality?

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

#29

haven't paid attention to this since all the drama last year but again - what are all of you using youtube-dl for? Archiving your channel subs?

My experience is that the internet is really bad at forgetting the stuff you want gone, but really good at turning all your bookmarks into 404s and parked domains (another reason why bookmarks are pretty much worthless). So if you don't save it, it'll be gone next time you're trying to look it up. Doubly so if it is something even mildly controversial (now or then).

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

#30
post #18

Why don't they split youtube-dl in two parts: - The extractors part (all the scrappers basically) - The cli tool What would be wonderful is that the extractors part is splitted out, so that anyone can use it without using youtube-dl. That would be much easier to update it too, each extractor is independent, so it is only a question, does this scrapper (extractor) works or not. The next step would be to have a multi-l…

That is mostly already the case, you can invoke the extractors through the Python API or through the CLI and do the download yourself.

Extractors regularly require custom logic, so they can’t be described in anything else than a programming language.

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