Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
by severine on Thursday July 05, 2018 @06:40AM
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I don't use the Play Store but a friend recently asked me for a youtube-dl frontend for Android (using other words), care to name some?
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Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
by woodruffw on Thursday July 05, 2018 @07:18AM
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Not the GP, but NewPipe is the one I'm familiar with. It's available on F-Droid.
Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
by severine on Thursday July 05, 2018 @08:29AM
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I use NewPipe, but my friend does not sideload apps or use F-Droid, that's why I'm asking for Play Store options.
Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
by Timothycquinn on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:03AM
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It's unlikely that you will find a long standing play store app with youtube-dl built in.
Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
by nnain on Thursday July 05, 2018 @07:17AM
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Well, should we be listing the related Apps here?
> the first rule of youtube-dl is not to talk about youtube-dl
Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
by severine on Thursday July 05, 2018 @08:17AM
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There are ~40 hits for "youtube-dl" in Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=youtube-dl&c=apps
But I agree that people might have mixed feelings on pointing to the ones that work better.
I made another search, through DuckDuckGo, and got a hit that's not among those ~40 and looks good: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aviddapp.o...
Am I hurting them by linking, or any of you for adding feedback?
Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
by wyoh on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:10PM
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Ark tube is a good front-end for youtube-dl
https://forum.xda-developers.com/general/paid-software/app-a...
Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
by Fnoord on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:45AM
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Problem is, just because something is "in the Play Store" doesn't mean it is harmless. It could, for example, contain trackers. So, yes, we should discuss and link them.
Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
by franga2000 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @04:48PM
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The Play Store doesn't allow YouTube downloaders, so I doubt you'll find any good ones there. The moment one gets popular, it's taken down.
Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
by m-p-3 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @05:50PM
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It's a bit hacky and out of reach to most casual users, but you can get YouTube-DL to work with Termux.
I have it set so that whenever I use the Termux share intent from another app, it use the shared URL and calls YouTube-DL with some parameters I want.
~/bin/termux-url-opener
#!/bin/bash
url=$1
youtube-dl $url
~/.config/youtube-dl/config # Default Output Directory and Pattern
-o /data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/downloads/%(extractor_key)s/%(uploader)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s