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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. …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
  2. 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
  3. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
    comment by hellbanner · 2015-11-15 · in YouTube Music
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    YouTube-dl Supported sites
    story by oxplot · 2015-11-12 · 1 comment
  5. …(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
  6. …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
  7. …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
  8. 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
  9. 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?
  10. youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
    comment by rwar · 2015-07-16 · in Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?
  11. 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
  12. …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
  13. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl Just sayin'..
    comment by Nemcue · 2015-04-30 · in Secret Shuts Down
  14. …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
  15. 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?
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    Show HN: Command-line YouTube downloader
    story by 13abylon · 2014-11-27 · 0 comments
  17. …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
  18. …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
  19. …(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
  20. …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
  21. …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
  22. …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
  23. …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
  24. …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
  25. 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
  26. …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
  27. …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
  28. 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?
  29. …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
  30. 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
  31. Try youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/
    comment by akent · 2012-03-11 · in Pycon 2012 Videos