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Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

231 mentions on Hacker News by 198 people: 21 stories, 210 comments · first 2012-03-11 · latest 2026-09-26

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  1. …proxies are not supported yet[1]. [1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/documentation.html#d5 [2] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/402
    comment by spindritf · 2014-11-23 · in Youtube-dl
  2. …They're separated and YT uses DASH to join the audio+video stream. youtube-dl seems to solve this: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2165
    comment by unicornporn · 2014-11-23 · in Youtube-dl
  3. …sites as well [1]. The rate in which this project keeps up with changes is incredible. [1]: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext...
    comment by anonova · 2014-11-23 · in Youtube-dl
  4. you can also take a look at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl also to find out how to download Youtube videos
    comment by yutah · 2014-08-17 · in Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
  5. …there is an open bug to handle this gracefully: Handle youtube CAPTCHAs (402 errors) gracefully: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/154
    comment by dfc · 2014-06-06 · in HTTP 402 – Payment Required
  6. …URL to playback the content in chromecast. This will probably make a good chrome extension. [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/
    comment by vigneshv_psg · 2014-03-08 · in Chromecast URL Player
  7. https://adblockplus.org/ https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
    comment by HaEB4zcjbp · 2013-11-29 · in Ask HN: Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?
  8. …for years. For videos, I made a key-binding that extracts any URL's in XA_PRIMARY, launches https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl and then plays the video with mplayer. Looks better (because the vid is full res) and never skips.
    comment by jakeogh · 2013-10-31 · in Cisco to release BSD-licensed H.264 stack
  9. For videos unavailable via HTML5, try youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/
    comment by JoshTriplett · 2012-08-15 · in Flash Player exits Android
  10. Try youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/
    comment by akent · 2012-03-11 · in Pycon 2012 Videos