TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection
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The ultimate collection of scripts for YouTube-DL.
7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2022-04-17 · latest 2025-09-24
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Came across this the other day - set of yt-dlp helper scripts loaded up with flags: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate...
comment by benoau · 2025-09-24 · in Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads -
Yep, just add the channels to a text file and itll download them for you and keep them up to date. Put the script into crontab. Zero running processes and only a couple of KB on disk. That's as Lightweight as you can get.…
comment by AyyEye · 2024-07-29 · in MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader -
On Windows where I'm just doing one off downloads, I put this in an "init.cmd" file in the root of my user directory to create a windows version of an alias. Inside it are: ``` @echo off doskey yt=yt-dlp "-o [%%(uploader)s]…
comment by Modified3019 · 2023-10-04 · in Yt-Dlp Commands: The Complete Tutorial for Beginners -
They definitely will be, now that google is looking to more proactively enforce ads. But the biggest danger is that videos and channels can get removed by any, all, or no reason. -Copyright middlemen/parasites -Trolls -Shifts in what’s…
comment by Modified3019 · 2023-08-13 · in Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio -
https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate...
comment by snthd · 2023-07-16 · in Self hosted YouTube media server -
You might be intereseted in these youtube archive scripts: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate...
comment by suzumer · 2023-01-06 · in Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable -
The workaround for vanilla youtube-dl is to use it with aria2, with options like: --external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args "--continue --max-concurrent-downloads=3 --max-connection-per-server=3 --split 3 --min-split-size 1M"…
comment by mgdlbp · 2022-04-17 · in “YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG