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yt-dlp
I was surprised at how well it works but anything command line is not for normies
Large language models from two years ago can write you an executable script that displays a window to provide an url.
My “subscriptions” are downloaded automatically on a schedule and imported in jellyfin. I never need to interact with it myself.
Anyone who’s done “/gamemode creative” is smart enough to figure out “yt-dlp ”. Seriously people need to stop acting like typing the most basic commands that you can find tutorials about is some kinda level 9 magic
It's not that peoplecan't figure it out, it's that they won't. As soon as you mention the terminal they stop listening or thinking
/gamemode creativedoesn't have that problem because it's not a terminal, it's a chat windowI think saying “anything command line isn’t for normies” would only worsen the problem
I think you've defined the problem rather well there..
It's not that Normies couldn't use it, it's that Normies won't use it.
Which generally helps it fly under the radar so us nerds can have nice things for longer.
I’m not for gate keeping, but I kinda like having tricky things if it means they don’t get ruined/stopped as fast.
Thats why I run it in docker with a web ui (On my server behind a reverse proxy, so I could get HTTPS working)
Shut up, im not a nerd
Metube?
Exactly
If you are on an android phone you should check the F-Droid pages for Seal. No commandline, a nice GUI, works great.
+1 for Seal, Newpipe and Tubular both work fine too
Nah I'm sorry. There is a point where it's unreasonable to expect someone to learn something, but that isn't it.
Using yt-dlp is extremely straightforward.
Being ignorant and proud of it is a horrid personality trait. The average person knows how to drive a car, how to call others using their phone and how to use an ATM.
Typing 7 characters and copy-pasting a link is well within their abilities.
simply downloading a video? sure, but literally anything else is insanely complicated for an average person.
If they want the music from a video they would have to look through all of https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp and probably still wouldn't find what they're looking for
The average person learns how to drive a car, which is akin to operating it. The average person does not know how to muck about in the engine of their car, and should not, because if they do the wrong thing they could break it. For that matter, I wouldn't even recommend someone OPERATES the car without training.
The terminal is considered for advanced users for the same reason. Learning to copy/paste into the terminal without understanding how to use it could mean I say "oh yeah the fix for that issue is doing
rm -rf / --no-preserve-root.You can use the OpenWith extensions to add it as a right click option.
I have this setup for my non-technical family members, so they just right click on the page choose open with -> ytdlp and it saves it to their downloads folder.
You can set up different options for example video or audio only.
-S res,ext:mp4:m4a --recode mp4 [HREF]You should now be able to right click on a YouTube page and choose "External Application launcher -> Open in YT-DLP: mp4"
If you want audio only, add another application in the extension settings and use the arguments
-f ba[ext=m4a] [HREF]for m4a files.There's GUIs for it though. Obviously not for everyone, but I made my own.
That it can download virtually from any site is pretty useful, assuming you know what to give it.
Normies don't deserve joy.
You can add it as a right-click option to Firefox:
You should now be able to right click on a YouTube page and choose “External Application launcher -> Open in YT-DLP: mp4”
If you want audio only, add another application in the extension settings and use the arguments -f ba[ext=m4a] [HREF] for m4a files.
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Do you type that in the windows finder bar?
Its a package, so it gets delivered in the mail
Grayjay works too, and they have a desktop client now (at least for Linux, and probably windows).
Youtube seems to be blocking that for me
Might need an update. Just fixed mine by grabbing the latest release from 2 weeks ago.
It shouldn't. When I first set it up the commands I was entering were creating an unreadable file. Double check the format you're outputting too and dont listen to the people in this thread saying its easy. Its pretty complex.
I just tried it again and the problem seems to have fixed itself