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yt-dlp mentions (865)

• Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

  For me, the less-complicated client called "DVD" is more reliable for downloading than the client called "Newpipe"; the later stops working intermittently. YMMV. (Neither are as reliable as using own custom command line programs on desktop, or mobile via Termux. If Google makes a change I can fix/workaround immediately. No waiting for app developers.) For me, Newpipe works well as a Soundlcoud client. From the... - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• FFmpeg 7.0 Released

  You can put these options in a config file and they will become the default: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#configur.... - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• Google fights Invidious (a privacy YouTube Front end)

  Yep. yt-dlp and youtube-dl https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Will also start to feel the impact. My theory is that we will see a bunch of new video hosting sites as youtube itself attempts to lock down its ecosystem. They haven't paid attention in any adversarial way as far as I can tell. When they do, it wont be great. - Source: Hacker News / 24 days ago

• Doom Running on a Toothbrush

  Or just "yt-dlp " yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ) still works pretty well at the current state of Twitter. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Show HN: I create a free website for download YouTube transcript, subtitle

  To whom it may be useful - `.` - precision flag [1] - `150` - precision amount [2] - bytes to count after casting to binary representation - `B` - special conversion type [3] - bytes [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-bytes-formatting [2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-bytes-formatting [3]: - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Open Video Downloader (youtube-dl-gui) mentions (28)

• Enterule me

  The video "Monumentality" by Solar Sands. You can find it on youtube, and if you don't have premium, you can download it on desktop using Open Video Downloader: Https://jely2002.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/. Source: 11 months ago

• Any YT DDL sites? Most seem to have gone down recently

  Use yt-dlp instead but this is command line tool. If you want a GUI tool then use youtube-dl-gui instead. Source: about 1 year ago

• Website Recommendation

  Apropos of youtube-dl, there are several GUIs for it, like Open Video Downloader which I'd recommend: Https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui. Source: about 1 year ago

• SOS on Total Biscuits youtube channel. Possibility that all of his videos are scrubbed to try and prevent AI voice training.

  I use Open Video Downloader, and while it admittedly is kind of limited in a few ways, it works quite well. Source: about 1 year ago

• Linux software list. Discussion and advice welcome!

  Open Video Downloader - GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js. Source: about 1 year ago