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A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl written in wxPython

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Re: A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl written in wxPython

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Post by WesolyKubeczek »

schoen wrote: post #7
Nux wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's handy for people who are not comfortable with the command line, no matter how simple it is. In addition it allows one to convert to mp3 etc. The number of people who might want to download something from Youtube & co is significantly larger than that of people comfortable with the cli.

I won't criticize someone for making more interfaces for this software, but I like the prospect that more people have been and will be motivated to learn about command line interfaces in order to use powerful software like youtube-dl.

I love the command line just as much as the next guy, but I could appreciate a gui program onto which I would drag and drop links from the url bar as i’m watching a video, and where there would be zones like “save as video”, “save and convert to mp3”, etc. And it would also take care of queueing things up.

I couldn’t care less how those zones are defined and configured, could be a configuration file for all i care, but the end result would be much more potent than copying and pasting into terminal and then making sure it’s quoted or escaped properly.

Re: A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl written in wxPython

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Post by rat9988 »

schoen wrote: post #7
Nux wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's handy for people who are not comfortable with the command line, no matter how simple it is. In addition it allows one to convert to mp3 etc. The number of people who might want to download something from Youtube & co is significantly larger than that of people comfortable with the cli.

I won't criticize someone for making more interfaces for this software, but I like the prospect that more people have been and will be motivated to learn about command line interfaces in order to use powerful software like youtube-dl.

Most people have no idea about how to use command line and it's fine.

Re: A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl written in wxPython

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Post by elAhmo »

As someone who has been working with Python a lot up to this year, I am wondering has the state of GUI frameworks improved for Python in the recent months/years?

If I want to have, lets say, an application that looks (and works) like a native MacOS or Windows application, would I bet able to do that? All of the examples look really odd, with weird buttons and simply not feeling like native apps.

Re: A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl written in wxPython

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Post by suction »

beckman466 wrote: post #10
schoen wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I won't criticize someone for making more interfaces for this software, but I like the prospect that more people have been and will be motivated to learn about command line interfaces in order to use powerful software like youtube-dl.

> I won't criticize > but please stop gatekeeping > motivated to learn about command line interfaces in order to use powerful software many people never get basic tech literacy. i think we’d benefit from not simply assuming others have (or could have) access to the same resources, time and patience that we had. i think you probably mean well but your statement, which sort of implies that people say “I am choosing not…

Tech literacy would help a great deal saving our democracies. Nobody needs to know command line, but to be able to tell if you're on a Russian disinfo website or a legit source of information is also (but not only) a matter of tech literacy, so I think OP is on to something here.

Re: A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl written in wxPython

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Post by mnl »

jb1991 wrote: post #3

I'm curious what is the reason for a GUI for such a simple utility? The command line for this kind of tool seems like the perfect interface. Just copy a URL, paste it, press enter. No buttons to press, etc.

I always have to look up the switches, there's quite a few. If you paste an URL it does one thing, it can do many others.
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