Comment on Anon tries to download videos from youtube

Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I was surprised at how well it works but anything command line is not for normies

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  • Saithe@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Anyone who’s done “/gamemode creative” is smart enough to figure out “yt-dlp <url>”. Seriously people need to stop acting like typing the most basic commands that you can find tutorials about is some kinda level 9 magic

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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 creative doesn’t have that problem because it’s not a terminal, it’s a chat window

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      • Saithe@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think saying “anything command line isn’t for normies” would only worsen the problem

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    • essell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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.

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  • Honeybee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thats why I run it in docker with a web ui

    Shut up, im not a nerd

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    • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Metube?

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      • Honeybee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Exactly

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  • stewi1914@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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 github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp and probably still wouldn’t find what they’re looking for

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    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I agree with the sentiment but you are going way too hard on it. Chill.

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    • savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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  • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you are on an android phone you should check the F-Droid pages for Seal. No commandline, a nice GUI, works great.

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    • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      +1 for Seal, Newpipe and Tubular both work fine too

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  • stom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Normies don’t deserve joy.

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  • BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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• stom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You can add it as a right-click option to Firefox:

  • Install: webextension.org/…/external-application-button.ht…
  • In the Extension options, add an application
  • Name it something like “Open in YT-DLP: mp4”
  • Set the exe name to the path of a local copy of yt-dlp
  • Set the arguments to be -S res,ext:mp4:m4a --recode mp4 [HREF]
  • Under the Placement options -> Context Menu -> select “All Contexts”

  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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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I love you

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you type that in the windows finder bar?

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its a package, so it gets delivered in the mail

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Grayjay works too, and they have a desktop client now (at least for Linux, and probably windows).

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• ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Youtube seems to be blocking that for me unfortunately

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  • stom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Might need an update. Just fixed mine by grabbing the latest release from 2 weeks ago.

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I just tried it again and the problem seems to have fixed itself

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