What's a really niche tool you use that you can't live without?

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lftp

I want to see tools most of us have never heard or even thought of. Extractors for obscure websites or websites we don't think of in terms of extractors like megatools or Mediafire Bulk Downloader. "Glue" tools like rclone's serve command (as well as the rest of rclone) and lftp that makes stuff work together easier. Phone apps like FE File Explorer Pro (sadly the free version seems to be gone) that makes accessing a home FTP server so much easier (once you've set up OpenVPN of course).

#SSH #File Transfer #CLI 6 social mentions

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yt-dlp

I assume that by now most of us have heard of youtube-dl/yt-dlp, and gallery-dl. And sure those are really really good if you want to download from sites popular enough to warrant extractors. But what if what you want to archive can't be archived by these tools?

#Video Downloader #Download Manager #YouTube Downloader 865 social mentions

3

CCExtractor

Ccextractor -- a fairly simple utility to extract closed captions from various MPEG format files into SRT subtitles. MakeMKV can be configured to use it when ripping DVDs (if they have closed captions).

#Audio Player #Music Player #Media Player 4 social mentions

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fzf

Https://github.com/junegunn/fzf with custom settings and tweaks. Absolutely indispensable for the search in hoarded data.

#Note Taking #Productivity #LMS 215 social mentions

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fd

#Note Taking #Productivity #LMS 118 social mentions

6

Bat

#Terminal Tools #Developer Tool #Text Editors 103 social mentions

7

nnn

#FTP Client #File Manager #File Explorer 75 social mentions

8

Alacritty

Alacritty was great but Kitty is just awesome.

#Remote PC Access #Remote Control #Terminal Tools 56 social mentions

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StableBit DrivePool

Drivepool : https://stablebit.com/ ! This one definitvely change the way I manage my storage.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Storage #Storage 36 social mentions

Mp3splt allows trimming/splitting of mp3 & ogg vorbis files without decoding, so without quality loss.

#Video #Remote PC Access #Remote Control 1 social mentions

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DAR

Dar is the only tool I know of that supports incremental backups to untrusted remote storage. All the remote sees are giant encrypted blobs.

#Archiver #Archive Manager #Data Compression 14 social mentions

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SingleFile

Copy Selected Links - I use this in combination with a text editor like Smultron on Mac. Cmd + f "https" and replace with "yt-dlp " and paste the full list into terminal usually does the trick when grabbing tons of links at once, which most frequently for me would be YouTube and Soundcloud links. Image Downloader - Easy and convenient, does its job 95% of the time. I should probably look into gallery-dl, but I prefer the precision in picking out ungrabbable images separately. Https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/image-downloader/cnpniohnfphhjihaiiggeabnkjhpaldj Mute Tab - Helpful when capturing audio and you want to do other things. Https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mute-tab/blljobffcekcbopmkgfhpcjmbfnelkfg Save Image As PNG - My first and still my favorite anti-webp tool. Allow Right-Click - Always comes in handy. Channel Blocker - Helps filter out annoying channels taking over YouTube search results and wasting your time. SingleFile - "Save a complete page into a single HTML file", simple as that. I used to try to capture everything as PNG, which is now my backup option if SingleFile fails, which is rare. Video downloader - CocoCut - This one picks up (most) audio files far better than any other extension I've used. I use this mostly for podcasts and rarely video. yt-dlp and CocoCut is my one-two punch, and Audio Hijack is my last resort when audio just can't be downloaded directly. Firefox addons:.

#Utilities #Download Manager #Web Copier 13 social mentions

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Image Downloader

Copy Selected Links - I use this in combination with a text editor like Smultron on Mac. Cmd + f "https" and replace with "yt-dlp " and paste the full list into terminal usually does the trick when grabbing tons of links at once, which most frequently for me would be YouTube and Soundcloud links. Image Downloader - Easy and convenient, does its job 95% of the time. I should probably look into gallery-dl, but I prefer the precision in picking out ungrabbable images separately. Https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/image-downloader/cnpniohnfphhjihaiiggeabnkjhpaldj Mute Tab - Helpful when capturing audio and you want to do other things. Https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mute-tab/blljobffcekcbopmkgfhpcjmbfnelkfg Save Image As PNG - My first and still my favorite anti-webp tool. Allow Right-Click - Always comes in handy. Channel Blocker - Helps filter out annoying channels taking over YouTube search results and wasting your time. SingleFile - "Save a complete page into a single HTML file", simple as that. I used to try to capture everything as PNG, which is now my backup option if SingleFile fails, which is rare. Video downloader - CocoCut - This one picks up (most) audio files far better than any other extension I've used. I use this mostly for podcasts and rarely video. yt-dlp and CocoCut is my one-two punch, and Audio Hijack is my last resort when audio just can't be downloaded directly. Firefox addons:.

#Tool #Communication #Project Management 7 social mentions