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

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Post by Gormo »

fnoobnar wrote: post #112
khaki54 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I presume you could subscribe and still use this tool? People use automation tools like this to download things that they already pay for because it saves them the effort of logging into 5 different apps depending on which walled garden it's in.

It’s Bandcamp: you buy the album and they give you a link to download it in whatever format you want so you can listen to it using whatever app or device you wish. You can come back later and download it as many times as you like.

What if I don't want to manually follow links or "come back later", but just add the album I purchased to the config for the same script I use for the rest of my media library?

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

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Post by Gormo »

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #94
warkdarrior wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not all of us agree that artists should charge for their products.

That gives you the right to be an artist and not charge for your own products, not the right to steal from other artists who have differing beliefs.

There are reasonable moral arguments against copyright infringement, but the false equivocation with stealing is not one of them.

The same moral principles that argue against depriving people of natural property they already own do not imply further arguments against reducing sales opportunities for non-rival goods for which scarcity has been artificially established via positive law. Other, unrelated principles, can make for compelling arguments, but not the same ones.

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

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Post by Gormo »

bdhdbebebeb wrote: post #91
warkdarrior wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not all of us agree that artists should charge for their products.

Not everyone agrees supermarkets should charge for groceries.

Most people do, since groceries are physical, rival goods to which natural property rights apply. But if it were possible to make copies of groceries while leaving the originals intact, far fewer people would argue against that on the same grounds. They might make other, unrelated arguments against copying, but moral principles applicable to physical property wouldn't be relevant.

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

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Post by panckreous »

krick wrote: post #79
knowitnone wrote: post #70

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you're unnecessarily making huge assumptions. Some people don't want the bestaudio or mp3

If I would make any assumptions, I would post another 30 options from my config that are nice to have when you download audio from youtube. These 3 are exactly equivalent to what gp does.

separate from above - willing to share your config anyways? I love me some yt-dlp configurations

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

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

TechDebtDevin wrote: post #45
andai wrote: 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.

New Pipe X if you need a full client does that as well.

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

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Post by account42 »

MattDaEskimo wrote: post #52

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.

Anti-bot is just a lied to block real human users you don't like/care about. Bots don't work for themselves.

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

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Post by marci »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #126
TechDebtDevin wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

New Pipe X if you need a full client does that as well.

I know of NewPipe (Android) but can't find anything about New Pipe X

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

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Post by dmuth »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #65

Anybody else getting this error constantly? you-get: [error] oops, something went wrong. you-get: don't panic, c'est la vie. please try the following steps: you-get: (1) Rule out any network problem. you-get: (2) Make sure you-get is up-to-date. you-get: (3) Check if the issue is already known, on you-get: https://github.com/soimort/you-get/wiki/Known-Bugs you-get: https://github.com/soimort/you-get/issues you-get: (…

Check your Python version.

Try switching to the newest version of Python with something like Pyenv, or even try spinning up a Docker image with something like:

docker run -it -v $(pwd):/mnt python:3.13 bash

...and try using the utility there. Good luck!

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

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Post by entropie »

andai wrote: 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…

> It's no longer online and I lost the code, but it was like one line of code.

My mom is really into audiobooks and I made telegram bot for her via node-red where she can share youtube links. The links are sent to a fifo where a little daemon (1) downdloads them sequential and saves them into an incoming folder I setup for this special purpose. The bot can either download only audio (for her telegram ID its only audio) or complete videos.

This folder is watched by jellyfin which she can access to download or listen. She loves it and in two years she downloaded way over a TB of audiobooks.

1: https://gist.github.com/entropie/d265e94136b9777cc6b3190189b...

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