Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos by naibafo on Thursday July 05, 2018 @04:06AM (#17461622)

But they don't download the ads, so I doubt they matter very much as far as google is concerned

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Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos by moviuro on Thursday July 05, 2018 @05:07AM (#17461832)

FWIW, youtube-dl can download from a ton of sites...

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

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Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos by zacmps on Thursday July 05, 2018 @06:28AM (#17462115)

You can actually download the ads with YouTube-dl... I believe it's YouTube only and still named as 'experimental', but theoretically it could be a default to appease the big G.

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Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos by savoytruffle on Thursday July 05, 2018 @08:43AM (#17462756)

But surely they arrive as separate files, and not interspersed in the main video. So it's implausible they'd ever be watched.

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Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos by skinnymuch on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:20AM (#17463430)

Yes they would most likely arrive as separate files. Though YouTube-dl could force their main codebase to merge the videos. Regardless from looking around it doesn’t look like ads are downloaded.

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Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos by skinnymuch on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:18AM (#17463409)

Do you know where to find this or if this is definitely true? I tried looking around before and YouTube-dl didn’t have any ad downloading ability. I just tried looking now and at first glance it doesn’t look like it does. Nothing in the changelog for past year either.

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Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos by naikrovek on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:45PM (#17468502)

It can download ads. It is a command line option.

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