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Re: Downloading Youtube

From Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Downloading Youtube
Date 2018-10-22 12:54 +0200
Organization turdv owners club
Message-ID <87y3aq45g5.fsf@gmail.com> (permalink)
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DFS <nospam@nospam.com> writes:

> On 10/20/2018 9:50 PM, Simon bar Sinister wrote:
>> Downloading Youtube
>>
>> I am trying a Linux Youtube downloader program.  It is a primitive terminal setup, but so far appears to be working.  That is if you can overlook its extremely slow speed.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the video is 3 hours long which would NOT be the best way to test the downloader out.  But so far it appears to be downloading in mp4 format in the correct directory.
>>
>> It has an insane number of available parameters.  Of course, it would probably be easier just to support a FireFox Plugin.
>>
>
>
> * get list of available formats
> youtube-dl -F <video url>
>
> that will give you a set of options, each preceded by a number
>
>
> * now get the video in a specific format (lowercase f here, above uses uppercase
> F)
>
> youtube-dl -f # <video url>
>

Or cough up for youtube premium. Excellent value : you get all google
music too.

-- 
chrisv alias turdv is a turd

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Downloading Youtube Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-20 18:50 -0700
  Re: Downloading Youtube Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-20 19:14 -0700
  Re: Downloading Youtube Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-20 20:16 -0700
  Linux Programmers are nuts. Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-20 20:18 -0700
    "4K Video Downloader" Ubuntu. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-10-20 20:52 -0700
      Re: "4K Video Downloader" Ubuntu. Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 04:08 -0700
        "youtube-dl" Ubuntu has a GUI. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-10-21 05:01 -0700
          Re: "youtube-dl" Ubuntu has a GUI. Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 05:36 -0700
            Re: "youtube-dl" Ubuntu has a GUI. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 06:08 -0700
          "youtube-dl" Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 05:55 -0700
            YouTube is quite the forum, better than FaceBook|Twitter|Snapchat. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-10-21 06:37 -0700
              Re: YouTube is quite the forum, better than FaceBook|Twitter|Snapchat. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 06:55 -0700
              Re: YouTube is quite the forum, better than FaceBook|Twitter|Snapchat. Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 07:06 -0700
                the most serious academic video presentations are at least one hour in duration Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 07:15 -0700
                Once I tried to collect Youtube videos with Playlists, but over time their videos have a bad habit of disappearing Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 07:26 -0700
                Re: Once I tried to collect Youtube videos with Playlists, but over time their videos have a bad habit of disappearing Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 07:42 -0700
                MSM is dead and buried. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-10-21 07:59 -0700
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 08:29 -0700
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 09:31 -0700
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 09:48 -0700
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 11:05 -0700
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 12:34 -0400
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 10:03 -0700
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. Checkmate <ricksabian1@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 11:08 -0700
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2018-10-21 14:25 -0400
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 11:51 -0700
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 22:14 -0700
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 23:17 -0700
                Re: MSM is dead and buried. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 11:36 -0700
                Re: YouTube is quite the forum, better than FaceBook|Twitter|Snapchat. chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-10-23 07:20 -0500
                Re: YouTube is quite the forum, better than FaceBook|Twitter|Snapchat. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-23 05:45 -0700
                Re: YouTube is quite the forum, better than FaceBook|Twitter|Snapchat. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-23 07:03 -0700
        Re: "4K Video Downloader" Ubuntu. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 05:05 -0700
          Re: "4K Video Downloader" Ubuntu. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 06:39 -0700
        Re: "4K Video Downloader" Ubuntu. chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-10-23 07:13 -0500
          Re: "4K Video Downloader" Ubuntu. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-23 05:30 -0700
    The definition of a Microsoft MP4 file consists of two different tracks:  One Video, One Audio Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 03:41 -0700
      Re: The definition of a Microsoft MP4 file consists of two different tracks:  One Video, One Audio Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 04:04 -0700
      Re: The definition of a Microsoft MP4 file consists of two different tracks:  One Video, One Audio Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 05:21 -0700
      Re: The definition of a Microsoft MP4 file consists of two different tracks: One Video, One Audio Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-10-21 19:13 -0700
  Re: Downloading Youtube DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-10-21 10:44 -0400
    Re: Downloading Youtube Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 08:14 -0700
    Re: Downloading Youtube Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2018-10-22 12:54 +0200
      Re: Downloading Youtube Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-22 04:14 -0700
      Boy is Snit forever stupid Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2018-10-22 05:38 -0700
        Re: Boy is Snit forever stupid Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-10-22 06:05 -0700
        Re: Boy is Snit forever stupid Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2018-10-22 15:14 +0200

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