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Did you honestly write this down thinking it was remotely any easier?
by Mindwipe 7y ago
Did you honestly write this down thinking it was remotely any easier?
- r3bl 7y agoThen the alternative? Absolutely. The alternative requires finding the latest version of Python, installing it, modifying the environment path, finding the binary for youtube-dl, installing it, and only then figuring out how it works. "Execute these commands only once and then just type youtube-dl https://example.com https://example.com. If something breaks, run this command to upgrade the script and retry." If the target audience is someone who you think will feel comfortable doing youtube-dl in a terminal, you may as well point them to the total of three other commands to set things up.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoAFAIR youtube-dl had an .exe build, I remember setting it up for my mom; it boiled down to unzipping an archive and telling here to drag URLs onto this icon. And the FFMpeg part; that was a PITA, and something she wouldn't have guessed on her own.
- r3bl 7y ago> Windows exe requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) and does not require Python that is already embedded into the binary. Yeah, that makes sense. Things have changed since last time I went through that pain.
- davesmith1983 7y agoYou don't have to do any of that nonsense. https://chocolatey.org/packages/youtube-dl https://chocolatey.org/packages/youtube-dl You install choco and add Youtube-dl. Job done. Which is mechanically pretty much the same as the way you install it via brew on a mac. I use Arch Linux and a Mac at home but at work I have to use Windows and I am constantly annoyed by people who never seem to use Windows telling others that it is impossible to do X without having to use some sort of Unix VM / Cygwin or WSL, when it reality is can be very simple.