What is your GUI of choice for yt-dlp ? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I was planning on using either the one by kannagi0303 from github or stacher.

update: I have setup the one from github, seems to do the job. Still can't figure out downloading subtitles using gui and using the yt-dlp terminal version for that. Link for what I am using: https://github.com/kannagi0303/yt-dlp-gui

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[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I just have mine set up as an alias in zsh (I assume this would work in bash too):

alias yt='yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4"'

Then just yt [url of video] from the command line should automatically grab the best quality video as an .mp4. And of course that can be tweaked to whatever you like (adding subs etc.)

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't forget to block sponsors and get subtitles

alias ytdl='yt-dlp -f mp4 "bestvideo*+bestaudio" --sponsorblock-remove all --write-auto-sub'

On Android I just use Libretube. Has Sponsorblock and you can can grab a csv of all your subs you had from your previous client.

Lastly, I use newsboat and YouTube RSS feeds to subscribe these days. Redirection extension takes me to an invidious instance. Noscript blocks everything. Just need the url for yt-dlp.