Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

Post by RachelF » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 7:36 AM UTC

EvanAnderson wrote: post #38

I feel like the first rule of youtube-dl is not to talk about youtube-dl. I keep expecting Google (and all the other sites it works on) to start taking active measures to disable it. At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos.

Post by Synaesthesia » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 7:57 AM UTC

rodorgas wrote: post #7

When I want to download a video from a site I always think “it would be great if youtube-dl worked with this niche website, but I think it’s too specific”, then I try and it works, I’m always surprised.

Post by salvar » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 8:00 AM UTC

bitmapbrother wrote: post #121

mxfh wrote: post #18

Since letting kids alone on youtube, is clusterf* of a nightmare, this is a godsend tool to archive approved channels to a local media server. This config file (with separate channel-list- and archive-files) template found here, has proven quite useful to me combined with some minimal batch job: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/858ny5/my_yout...

>Since letting kids alone on youtube, is clusterf* of a nightmare, Could you have caked on more hyperbole? Yes, let's just let kids search the Internet and see what they come up with.

Post by allenz » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 8:02 AM UTC

huckyaus wrote: post #76

AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Important and desirable media is almost always available from more than one source. If not, then Sometimes, it's as simple as asking the producer to upload to your preferred streaming endpoint.

What constitutes "important and desirable media" is extremely personal and subjective, and the producer will not always be available to respond to your request. Here's an example of something that is very important and desirable to me but doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_p2B8ReqE

Post by majewsky » Thu, Jul 05, 2018, 8:04 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #11

The most useful part of youtube-dl is that it works with mpv, so you just pass a URL on the command line and MPV just plays the video in it. I have two monitors, so I put a button on my Firefox toolbar to launch MPV with the current URL, and configured MPV to start fullscreen on the second monitor immediately and quit when done. It's made my video-watching experience on the web an order of magnitude better.

  mpv() {
    if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
      env mpv "$(xsel -b)"
    else
      env mpv "$@"
    fi
  }