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Re: youtube video downloader for chrome

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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.

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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

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