Groups > linux.debian.user > #206442

Re: youtube video downloader for chrome

From	Fred <fred@blakemfg.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: youtube video downloader for chrome
Date	2019-03-21 22:50 +0100
Message-ID	<xEdJv-7h2-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	(6 earlier) <xDRJ0-2b2-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <xE71n-3cP-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <xE877-3Py-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <xE9Pz-4Uw-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <xEb50-5A0-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

On 03/21/2019 11:57 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 21 Mar 2019 at 10:17:11 (-0700), Fred wrote:
>> On 03/21/2019 08:41 AM, David Wright wrote:
>>> On Thu 21 Mar 2019 at 15:38:41 (+0100), Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Celejar wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:34:42 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, riveravaldez wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe worth mentioning: youtube-dl, exceptionally useful and simple CLI tool.
>>>>>>      useful and simple... but it works only for urls with alphanumeric characters
>>>>>>      I tried with an url containing ? and &, and I got nothing
>>>>>>      I tried also by escaping ? and & with \, and it was not better.
>>>>>>      I'll send you an example later, if you are not convinced...
>>>>> You can also try putting the url(s) in a file, and feeding the file to
>>>>> youtube-dl via its -a option.
>>>>>
>>>>> Celejar
>>>>>
>>>>     At last, I fixed everything just by loadind the last version of youtube-dl from the
>>>>     yt-dl site
>>>>         wget https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
>>>>
>>>> after that,  I can do either
>>>>       youtube-dl --no-playlist  'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQd1IOyhKS4&list=RDEMlHFFKeq-aYlBhg-LtJ-SHw&start_radio=1'
>>>>       or
>>>>      youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQd1IOyhKS4 both give
>>>> exactly the same result.
>>>>
>>>> My question is why the Debian version so obsolte ans uneliable?
>>> The latest version on the website is three days old. The version I
>>> installed from backports on Jan 28 was 11 days old.
>>>
>>> You have to understand that sites like youtube and the BBC can
>>> obsolete youtube-dl and get_iplayer overnight, and they do.
>>> Then some clever people come up with a fix and release a new
>>> version, and I heave a big sigh of relief and thanks. (Most
>>> BBC programmes expire after four weeks, and I'm usually two or
>>> three weeks behind, so a quick fix is vital.)
>>>
>>> Debian mainstream doesn't work to that timetable, so you should
>>> check out the backports, where those sorts of package appear.
>>> Fortunately, get_iplayer is a single Perl script so I just
>>> download it from its site and put it in ~/bin, as you can see
>>> from my examples.
>>>
>> Hi,
>> I think you would be better off with:
>>
>> youtube-dl --update
> a) Why?
>
> b) How?
>
> $ youtube-dl --update
> Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
>
> youtube-dl: error: youtube-dl's self-update mechanism is disabled on Debian.
> Please update youtube-dl using apt(8).
> See https://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl for the latest packaged version.
>
> $
>
>> also:
>>
>>   youtube-dl --help
>>
>> will show all the options.
> … and, of course, --update is missing.
>
> But which of these options did you mean to draw my attention to?
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
HI,

Well, it would appear that I did not use the downlevel version from the 
Debian repository.  If you install from the youtube-dl website and then 
use the --update command you can be sure of having the latest version.

If one uses the --help command the update option will be shown.  I 
didn't know that was missing in the Debian version.

One option that might have helped with a problem that was posted in 
about the last week is the --restrict-filenames option which may prevent 
the need to quote the URL.

Best regards,
Fred

Thread

youtube video downloader for chrome Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2019-03-18 11:10 +0100
  Re: youtube video downloader for chrome David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2019-03-18 12:30 +0100
    Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2019-03-18 12:40 +0100
      Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2019-03-18 14:50 +0100
        Re: youtube video downloader for chrome riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 00:00 +0100
          Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 10:40 +0100
            Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-03-20 11:30 +0100
            Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-03-20 13:10 +0100
              Re: youtube video downloader for chrome David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-20 19:20 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-03-20 20:10 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 23:30 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-23 02:00 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-03-25 03:20 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-21 01:30 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-03-21 03:20 +0100
              Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 19:20 +0100
            Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 23:20 +0100
              Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2019-03-21 15:40 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-21 16:50 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2019-03-21 18:40 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2019-03-21 20:00 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-21 20:00 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2019-03-21 22:50 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-03-22 13:10 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2019-03-22 15:20 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-23 02:10 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2019-03-23 20:20 +0100
                Re: youtube video downloader for chrome David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-24 17:10 +0100
              Re: youtube video downloader for chrome Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2019-03-24 12:20 +0100

csiph-web