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Insome cases youtube-dl downloads the content via ffmpeg, see [1] [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/c3bcd206eb031de3...

comment by timendum · 2019-08-07 · in FFmpeg 4.2

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Command-line program to download videos from YouTube

story by LinuxBender · 2019-07-03 · 2 comments

…you can download, and then choose exactly which audio and video formats to download and merge. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...

comment by ihuman · 2019-06-19 · in YouTube is working with Universal Music Group to remaster iconic music videos

Why not use youtube-dl? ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl )

comment by diziet · 2019-06-11 · in Show HN: Super Fast YouTube to MP3/MP4 Converter API

It's well-documented in youtube-dl's readme: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#format-selection It has examples as well: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#format-selection-exam...

comment by aepiepaey · 2019-05-27 · in Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl

…I now immediately download it. Learned the need for that the hard way. Check out its options here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md... With --add-metadata you can embed the YT video description in the video…

comment by AlbertoGP · 2019-05-18 · in Internet Data Is Rotting

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues has 2,350 open and 14,371 closed

comment by jakeogh · 2019-05-16 · in Ask HN: Which GitHub repo has the most open issues?

…output template system. It's just the default output template that is only the title+id. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md... Also, it has the --write-* switches, in particular --write-info-json, which allow to…

comment by rndgermandude · 2019-05-08 · in Marion Stokes: A woman who taped 30 years of TV news

…https://github.com/bitsofpancake/spotify-backup (Python, JSON backup) YouTube backups: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/ YouTube-dl can dump public playlists for YouTube (you might need jq to pretty it up), Google Takeout should…

comment by toomuchtodo · 2019-03-13 · in Spotify trying to lock-in users just after IPO (2018)

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YouTube stopped providing videos in 3GP file format

story by app4soft · 2019-03-01 · 1 comment

youtube-dl will archive annotations to XML with the --write-annotations flag. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

comment by schiffern · 2018-11-27 · in YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019

…-citw -v <url-of-channel> [0] https://askubuntu.com/questions/856911/using-youtube-dl-to-d... [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14083

comment by app4soft · 2018-11-09 · in YouTube Inactive accounts policy

…always seems to work for me. Can't help with ads, though premium has been great for me. [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/

comment by inyorgroove · 2018-10-16 · in Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

…it is changed often enough that if you don't use it often, then yes it might give that impression. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/commits/master/youtube_dl/...

comment by s3m4j · 2018-09-22 · in Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

…used: https://github.com/requests/requests Best source code layout, architecture, maintainability: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

comment by sparkling · 2018-09-21 · in Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?

…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

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Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

story by axiomdata316 · 2018-07-04 · 248 comments

…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

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Youtube-dl embedded JavaScript interpreter to extract signatures

story by mabynogy · 2017-07-08 · 0 comments

…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

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

story by febin · 2017-02-24 · 0 comments

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

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YouTube-DL

story by vinchuco · 2016-06-01 · 3 comments

…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