ytdl-org/youtube-dl on Hacker News

…or mp4 (whichever of those two you prefer). [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17460060 [1]: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/ [2]: https://handbrake.fr/ [3]: https://ffmpeg.org/

comment by johnsonjo · 2018-07-06 · in Ask HN: What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?

…to its name – there are `extractors` for almost every streaming, video, tv or radio website: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext... I always use it to rip TV or radio shows from German public stations

comment by nachtigall · 2018-07-05 · in Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

All their extractors can be found here: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext...

comment by bschwindHN · 2018-07-05 · in Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

…was actually some type of bug or configuration error in Google's network and/or data archives? [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/uti...

comment by pdkl95 · 2018-07-05 · in Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

It's a pretty extensive list: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext...

comment by Ajedi32 · 2018-07-05 · in Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

…understatement. youtube-dl can download from pretty much any video site, including porn sites: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais...

comment by rolodato · 2018-07-05 · in Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

…believe it started as a YouTube only thing and then grew. Edit: Found the list of supported sites. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/docs/supported...

comment by TaylorAlexander · 2018-07-05 · in Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

…don't need a YouTube account to download things. Here's how to download captions using youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/#subtitle-options I wouldn't bother with the automatically generated ones, though. They are not good…

comment by Bromskloss · 2018-06-25 · in DevTube: Searchable index of developer videos

Very annoyingly youtube-dl refuses to support bitchute for reasons that aren't exactly clear: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14052 If I can't get data off bitchute easily using de facto standard tools (I get that I could use a…

comment by JackCh · 2018-06-18 · in YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

…or other complaints? https://github.com/Roy47Zhang/CSGO-Aimbot-Project (cheat for Counter strike) https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl (download from video streamers) https://github.com/kurtcoke/DemonHunter_Exploitkit (exploit kit)…

comment by gressquel · 2018-06-04 · in What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub

…- youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl - pgcli: Postgres cli with autocomplete and syntax highlighting https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli Written in C -…

comment by zodiac · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

…- youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl - pgcli: Postgres cli with autocomplete and syntax highlighting https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli Written in C -…

comment by Dowwie · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

The easier approach: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl youtube-dl can download content from just about everywhere, including SoundCloud.

comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2018-04-16 · in Reverse Engineering the Soundcloud API

…and supports loads of sites as well as just youtube. Agreed, here's a list of sites it supports: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/docs/supported...

comment by dsnuh · 2018-04-14 · in Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

…existing test cases work fine." Me: [ Gives up before frustration turns to anger ] This happened. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7872 -- Me (on a sadly now-defunct forum): "I think it would be awesome if we ported my favorite…

comment by exikyut · 2018-03-18 · in Hack everything without fear

`-f bestvideo+bestaudio/best` might work: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#format-selection

comment by Torn · 2017-12-06 · in Blue Planet II Comes to iPlayer in 4K High Dynamic Range

Nice. There is https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md . Maybe something equivalent should be done for booking.com .

comment by usr1106 · 2017-09-21 · in How Booking.com manipulates users

…and is easy to use. The idea is to make those forms of publishing more widely known about. [1]: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl [2]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

comment by cyphar · 2017-08-10 · in Richard Stallman Explains [video]

…not used youtube-dl, as it has an unfortunate name but supports an incredible amount of sources: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext... including, of course, soundcloud https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/…

comment by mdaniel · 2017-07-18 · in Archiveteam are backing up SoundCloud

…youtube-dl seems to find the stream URL okay, but then prints ffmpeg errors: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/11636 https://github.com/selsta/hlsdl should be able to do it in theory, but it looks like WideVine DRM is involved.

comment by voltagex_ · 2017-07-18 · in Archiveteam are backing up SoundCloud

No offense, but https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl is without question the best downloading experience I have ever encountered, and for damn sure doesn't require an API key

comment by mdaniel · 2017-07-18 · in Archiveteam are backing up SoundCloud

…of contributors and their passion for keeping it up to date and supporting a huge range of sites. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/ Previous long HN discussions of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647943…

comment by schoen · 2017-03-14 · in Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

…youtube-dl -U There's also an .exe for Windows as well as pip, Homebrew, and MacPorts packages. [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-... [2] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#inst...

comment by dabber · 2017-03-14 · in Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

Start downloading like mad, and archive this stuff to S3? https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md

comment by mindcrime · 2017-03-05 · in UCBerkley removes online video content starting 15 March

youtube-dl is still plenty active, its last commit was just a few hours ago: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/

comment by timothyb89 · 2016-10-24 · in Building a Bank with Kubernetes [slides]

…variability of the quality and the ability to find good-quality versions of the songs you want. [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

comment by zo1 · 2016-10-02 · in Online music distribution companies may not want Creative Commons music

There's a CLI https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl . Which is possibly used by some of these sites.

comment by adrianmoses · 2016-09-26 · in RIAA, BPI, IFPI sue largest YouTube ripping site

…a "generic" extractor, but it also has specific support for a lot of sites, including GDCVault: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext...

comment by 0xcde4c3db · 2016-04-16 · in 8-Bit and '8 Bitish' Graphics [video]

Encrypted streaming, eg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsWrShXPDPo 4 year old bug https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/343

comment by mavhc · 2016-04-08 · in YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

Some useful hints here: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/ext...

comment by insin · 2016-04-08 · in YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

…and trusting a much younger version of me :) I still remember the emotion of getting this merged: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/pull/342 It's also one of the most impressive community efforts I've seen, with just about anyone…

comment by FiloSottile · 2016-04-08 · in YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

…but also for a lot of other video hosters Oh ye, the list's pretty comprehensive actually [1]. [1]: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext...

comment by oxplot · 2016-04-08 · in YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

Helping fix https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/8118 may get you access to these.

comment by voltagex_ · 2016-01-29 · in The Best Teacher I Never Had

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

comment by hellbanner · 2015-11-15 · in YouTube Music

…(this is a hack, why trouble yourself when youtube breaks things), and you won't have to read this: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/ext...

comment by ics · 2015-10-29 · in YouTube Red is live

…tool anyway, so if you don't have it already, you should consider grabbing it regardless). [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

comment by halosghost · 2015-10-08 · in Show HN: Download any song without knowing its name

…a nice lesson in de-obfuscating the sites it supports [1] = https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ [2] - https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext...

comment by Pengwin · 2015-09-01 · in Online streaming sites and URL obfuscation

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl 1. right-click -> "Copy Link Location" 2. middle click to paste the link into you shell 3. run "youtube-dl" on the URL(s) 4. watch the videos in whatever video player you want One of these days I should…

comment by pdkl95 · 2015-08-30 · in Show HN: How I know what my neighbors uploaded on YouTube

youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl I fell in love with this project after discovering I don't need ad-choked, dodgy sites to download Youtube videos/mp3s. It also acts as a catch-all downloader for a huge amount of other video…

comment by patrickk · 2015-07-17 · in Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

comment by rwar · 2015-07-16 · in Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/ supports SC too.

comment by jakeogh · 2015-07-07 · in Off the Rip – Future proof soundclound ripping CLI with ID3 tagging

…button to enable/disable Flash completely. 0: https://github.com/lejenome/html5-video-everywhere 1: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl 2: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer

comment by _jomo · 2015-06-23 · in A Month Without Adobe Flash Player

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl Just sayin'..

comment by Nemcue · 2015-04-30 · in Secret Shuts Down

…player though. You can use external software such as youtube-dl[1] to take advantage of it. [1]: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/ (using an invocation such as "youtube-dl -g -f bestaudio [url]" to retrieve the URL of an audio-only encode)

comment by chengsun · 2015-04-06 · in VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos

Video downloading: youtube-dl https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

comment by _jomo · 2015-01-30 · in Ask HN: Best open source/free software in their own category?

…just zipping up all the files and prepending a shebang. [0] http://bugs.python.org/issue1739468 [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/640743233389714dda8a3...

comment by phihag_ · 2014-11-24 · in Youtube-dl

…nice if it supported Netflix. There's some difficulties with this, but a discussion about it here: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1564

comment by of · 2014-11-23 · in Youtube-dl

…(Disclaimer though: I am the current lead developer, so may have missed a pitfall or two). [0] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#do-i...

comment by phihag_ · 2014-11-23 · in Youtube-dl

…and _VALID_URL = 'https?://...' though? We've also added a fair bit of "official" documentation at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#addi... .

comment by phihag_ · 2014-11-23 · in Youtube-dl

…for many different information sources is a particularly good candidate for an open source project. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/pull/4233

comment by fractalsea · 2014-11-23 · in Youtube-dl