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Somewhat related. Anyone have a good utility for downloading youtube videos?

• snazz 6y ago
  https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html is the gold standard.
  • memexy 6y ago
    Thanks.
  • superkuh 6y ago
    And back on topic youtube-dl uses system ffmpeg for converting youtube's .webm and other weird discrete formats into proper video (or audio) files.
    • nihonium 6y ago
      Just a reminder, depending on your installation method of youtube-dl , you may have to manually install ffmpeg globally on your system in order to download/mux highest quality videos.
  • leokennis 6y ago
    And for good reason Insane amount of customization, and once you finally have pieces together your 10 line command with 40 parameters, you can just give it a huge list of URLs and let it do all the work in the background.
  • sorenjan 6y ago
    It should be noted that despite the name it supports a lot of different websites, not just Youtube. It's great to capture hls streams for instance.
    • tim-- 6y ago
      And the list is seriously long, too: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/extractor https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...
  • yesenadam 6y ago
    I'm a recent convert to youtube-dl. I use some bash scripts[0] to make youtube-dl even easier. I have a Mac but these should work elsewhere. Copy the video page URL to your clipboard and just type yd - download the video. Works on most popular sites with video. yda - download just audio, best available ypl - makes a subfolder with the whole playlist in it (Copy the playlist URL) yc - downloads every video on the channel (Copy the channel URL) yd () { youtube-dl "$(pbpaste)" ; } yda () { youtube-dl -f bestaudio "$(pbpaste)" ; } ypl () { youtube-dl -i -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' "$(pbpaste)" ; } yc () { youtube-dl -i -o '%(channel)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' "$(pbpaste)" ; } I use especially yd and ypl constantly. Sites where youtube-dl doesn't work, this usually does: Get the master m3u8 or an mp4 link from the page using Developer tools->Network[1], copy link to clipboard, and vd myfile - downloads the video as myfile.mp4 vd () { youtube-dl -o "$1.mp4" "$(pbpaste)" ; } [0] Save them in your .bash_profile or equivalent on your machine. [1] i.e. with Network tab open, refresh page and start video playing.
    • memexy 6y ago
      Nice. Thanks for the aliases. I just started using it myself for downloading and transcribing some videos. It works pretty well.