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1) Couldn't get it to work 2) An explination would be much appreciated 3) You probably want to format this as code (https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc ht

by O_H_E 7y ago

1) Couldn't get it to work 2) An explination would be much appreciated 3) You probably want to format this as code (https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc) 4) Difference between this and youtube-dl? other than doing it without any dependencies.

3xblah 7y ago
1) What did you try? 2) It is a shell script 3) Sorry about that 4) (a) It is smaller, simpler and faster. (b) When YouTube occasionally makes a change I can fix it immediately rather than waiting for someone else to fix youtube-dl
- O_H_E 7y ago
  It is probably my incompetence and arrogance. I am not that proficient in the unix shell yet. I was trying to run the entire thing from the command line, but also tried a couple of putting it in a function names `youtube-url` without success. I was stubborn and trying to use it like that `youtube-url fmt "https://you..."` https://you..."` and never got what you wrote in the usage section because I had `youtube-url` twice in the output (so I was never actually piping the url to that command) But now after you said "script", I tried putting it in its own fine giving it an honest read/try. Figured out you are using netbsd, as Ubuntu's (and by definition Debian) `ftp` doesn't have an `-o` option. After deleting the o now I get source url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CneL0GoZ3tk video url: ftp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CneL0GoZ3tk: Name or service not known > When YouTube occasionally makes a change I can fix it immediately rather than waiting for someone else to fix youtube-dl I hear you. Had to download manually the latest ytdl development versions before they were packaged before. EDIT: know what, you don't have to waste much time on me as it looks like there 'might' be more differences with grep/sed (who am I to know) I should not be here nor on my command line wasting time anyway. Have a ton of work to do to graduate on time.
  - 3xblah 7y ago
    Tested on Linux. ftp package is called tnftp. You can substitute curl -4o, wget -4O, fetch -4o or whatever client you prefer for downloading files.

by O_H_E 7y ago

3xblah 7y ago

1) What did you try? 2) It is a shell script 3) Sorry about that 4) (a) It is smaller, simpler and faster. (b) When YouTube occasionally makes a change I can fix it immediately rather than waiting for someone else to fix youtube-dl

O_H_E 7y ago
It is probably my incompetence and arrogance. I am not that proficient in the unix shell yet. I was trying to run the entire thing from the command line, but also tried a couple of putting it in a function names `youtube-url` without success. I was stubborn and trying to use it like that `youtube-url fmt "https://you..."` https://you..."` and never got what you wrote in the usage section because I had `youtube-url` twice in the output (so I was never actually piping the url to that command) But now after you said "script", I tried putting it in its own fine giving it an honest read/try. Figured out you are using netbsd, as Ubuntu's (and by definition Debian) `ftp` doesn't have an `-o` option. After deleting the o now I get source url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CneL0GoZ3tk video url: ftp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CneL0GoZ3tk: Name or service not known > When YouTube occasionally makes a change I can fix it immediately rather than waiting for someone else to fix youtube-dl I hear you. Had to download manually the latest ytdl development versions before they were packaged before. EDIT: know what, you don't have to waste much time on me as it looks like there 'might' be more differences with grep/sed (who am I to know) I should not be here nor on my command line wasting time anyway. Have a ton of work to do to graduate on time.
- 3xblah 7y ago
  Tested on Linux. ftp package is called tnftp. You can substitute curl -4o, wget -4O, fetch -4o or whatever client you prefer for downloading files.