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> videos through youtube-dl these days how do you find the video you want without using youtube? do you just use the youtube search interface then download the
by ghrifter 11y ago
> videos through youtube-dl these days
how do you find the video you want without using youtube? do you just use the youtube search interface then download the video by copying the url (w/o even clicking on the link to start the video buffer)
- stepvhen 11y agoyoutube-dl can fetch a video via its ID, the part after the "/watch?v=<ID>" in the URL. Combined with a video player, such as vlc, mpv, mpc-hc or similar, you can stream youtube videos without viewing from the youtube website. There are scripts available that make this less DIY, such as ones that launch your video player with youtube-dl when you load a page on youtube, though I do not have any of those on hand to show you.
- ihuman 11y agoYou can stream videos through VLC even if you don't download them. Just Select File->Open Network, and put in the url of the YouTube video.
- j_s 11y agoThe question was more about discovery than how the tool worked... I'd imagine he doesn't watch much YouTube but just uses youtube-dl when the videos are found on other sites.
- ghrifter 11y agoI watch a bit of YouTube, but I only use YouTube-dl to doownload videos I really like - like abridgements or YTPs - stuff that can easily be copyright notice'd down
- simondedalus 11y agoyou could search (and watch) with mps-youtube: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/02/new-command-line-youtube-player-and.html http://www.webupd8.org/2014/02/new-command-line-youtube-play... incidentally, you could also just use google.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoI browse the site and copy the URL. Often, I'll copy the URL of a playlist, and use -A to download and number a series of videos. Or, for something sufficiently ephemeral, I'll hand the URL directly to mpv and let it stream. Particularly useful if I suspect I won't care to watch the entire video. And I find mpv's player interface far better than YouTube's. Occasionally I still use the browser video player as well.
- adrusi 11y agoI use the web interface and have a keybinding in my web browser to download the video using youtube-dl and play it in mpv. If you want to completely bypass the web interface, you can subscribe to channels by RSS.
- hidroto 11y agoi just have rss feeds of the accounts i have subscribed to in my feedreader.