Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by thewebcount on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:40PM (#28322450)

I genuinely hate using YouTube because it's awful. Random pop-ups all over the page. Weird suggestions on the sidebar because I don't have an account and don't want one. Ads that start in the middle of a sentence and play again if you rewind, etc. so you can't actually understand the video you're watching. So I wrote an app that takes a YouTube URL, downloads the video with youtube-dl, and just plays it in a normal OS window. No web browser needed. No junk. It's awesome!

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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by lorenzhs on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:03AM (#28325683)

You can just run “vlc https://youtube.com/watch/…”. There’s also YouTube-dl integration for mpv if I’m not mistaken.

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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by dryfish on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:52AM (#28326228)

I did the same but it's all bodged together which means I usually don't watch anything from Youtube.

It's a shame that the only video links on HN seem to be from Youtube.

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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by xelxebar on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:28PM (#28323287)

You might also enjoy invidio.us, in the off chance you end up stranded on a remote island without youtube-dl handy.

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