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Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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For a while I had expensive internet and low bandwidth, but I loved listening to music and lectures on YouTube. At some point I realized that getting only the audio stream would save me 90% in bandwidth costs. [0] youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) has a flag, I believe -G, which gives you the URL(s) for the requested format/quality. I used the command line on my computer and put the link in VLC. On my phone I had this elaborat…

NewPipe can do this very nicely, it even lets you build a playlist of videos.

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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Given the title and the first few sentences from a description I assumed that it's some heuristic-based tool to try and grab whatever there is on the page, which would be useful if there's no tool which implemented the support for this site (which in most cases just means "yt-dlp doesn't support it"). But apparently it's also extractor-based with a separate extractor for each somewhat-popular source. So, basically it's just less sophisticated clone of yt-dlp?

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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Another library released which lies about what it is to circumvent anti-bot security. Let's just not act surprised when tighter attestation comes in effect.

This library/program solves problems that people have with pages like youtube... too many ads, no way to download videos for offline use (or archive for when they get removed), and better performance with a native player.

If I was forced to watch all the ads on youtube, i wouldn't watch videos there at all.

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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Another library released which lies about what it is to circumvent anti-bot security. Let's just not act surprised when tighter attestation comes in effect.

A future in which YouTube will refuse to stream you data because you didn't pass client attestation is definitely coming and I wish we could stop it.

It is a dark future where some of us will accept it, and rest of us will be constantly taking part in a cat-mouse chase in which we glitch out attestation tokens from vulnerable devices to get by.

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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post #41

For a while I had expensive internet and low bandwidth, but I loved listening to music and lectures on YouTube. At some point I realized that getting only the audio stream would save me 90% in bandwidth costs. [0] youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) has a flag, I believe -G, which gives you the URL(s) for the requested format/quality. I used the command line on my computer and put the link in VLC. On my phone I had this elaborat…

That’s the -F option to list all the formats, including the audio streams. Pick the audio format with -f to download the audio. I usually pick the .m4a format and then run it through ffmpeg to convert to mp3.

That's really unnecessarily complicated workflow you have. It's achievable by yt-dlp with just 3 flags:

--extract-audio

--format bestaudio

--audio-format mp3

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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post #41

For a while I had expensive internet and low bandwidth, but I loved listening to music and lectures on YouTube. At some point I realized that getting only the audio stream would save me 90% in bandwidth costs. [0] youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) has a flag, I believe -G, which gives you the URL(s) for the requested format/quality. I used the command line on my computer and put the link in VLC. On my phone I had this elaborat…

Brave Mobile browser allows turning on background video audio thus eliminating the need for YouTube Premium and similar subscriptions.

I don't know why your comment is downvoted because I use this feature of Brave very often and I also exclusively watch YT in Brave mobile (no ads).

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brave Mobile browser allows turning on background video audio thus eliminating the need for YouTube Premium and similar subscriptions.

I don't know why your comment is downvoted because I use this feature of Brave very often and I also exclusively watch YT in Brave mobile (no ads).

For me, it was as easy as adding a shortcut to the YouTube homepage on Brave that it basically acts like the YouTube app, but with ad blocking built in. It's the only way I watch YT videos on mobile.

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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post #41

For a while I had expensive internet and low bandwidth, but I loved listening to music and lectures on YouTube. At some point I realized that getting only the audio stream would save me 90% in bandwidth costs. [0] youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) has a flag, I believe -G, which gives you the URL(s) for the requested format/quality. I used the command line on my computer and put the link in VLC. On my phone I had this elaborat…

A service that takes arbitrary user input and then attempts to download/proxy whatever is at the end of that input. Brave soul.

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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post #41

For a while I had expensive internet and low bandwidth, but I loved listening to music and lectures on YouTube. At some point I realized that getting only the audio stream would save me 90% in bandwidth costs. [0] youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) has a flag, I believe -G, which gives you the URL(s) for the requested format/quality. I used the command line on my computer and put the link in VLC. On my phone I had this elaborat…

on Android YTDLnis solves this very nicely. simply share the video URL to the app and it can download whichever format you like https://github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis
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