Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com B3_CHAD @lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 mo. ago

What is your GUI of choice for yt-dlp ?

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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Bash lol
- Linux user ?
  
  Windows user?
  
  Both. Powershell when I’m using Windows.
I just use command line honestly.

I wasn't aware it had subtitle support though. What's the command for downloading those?
- Download Subtitles: yt-dlp --write-sub --sub-lang (language code) (video URL) Doesn't work for videos with auto generated subs.
  
  Automatic subtitles are also possible to grab by using --write-auto-sub, example:
  yt-dlp --write-auto-sub [video url]
  
  This next example will attempt to download English subtitles and if that fails, downloads the automatic subtitles instead:
  yt-dlp --sub-lang en --write-sub --write-auto-sub [video url]
  
  Note - you can not download automatic subtitles at the same time as language subtitles, which means if you wanted English and automatic I'd recommend the --skip-download flag for the second command, which will prevent downloading the entire video again:
  yt-dlp --sub-lang en --write-sub [video url]
  yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --skip-download [video url]
- Same here. I never needed a gui for it cause I simply drag and dropped over mpv and it handled the streaming. In fact it download subs on its own
None GUI. Just use a terminal!
Everyone in the comments: I use assembly for everything
- Bah. Peasants. I use my Automatic Computing Engine. Works great.
“GUI? For yt-dlp? No. No, hell no man. No, I imagine someone would get their ass kicked for saying something like that”
- I don't think there's anything wrong with using GUI tools, they can display a lot more handleable info at once
The CLI is simple enough that I don't really bug with any GUI abstractions. I used tubesync for a while on unRAID with pretty decent success, but I eventually ran into some limitations and ended switching to a cron job.
I just have a config file with the settings that I want it to use all the time.
- 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.)
  
  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.
Command line. I even use termux for Android but I wanna try out seal some time
- Seal's fantastic, been using it for months now.
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- I am using seal on my phone too but need something for pc.
CMD or bash. But TIL that yt-dlp had GUI.
I like cobalt as web app.
- cobalt
  
  Can you provide a link ?
  
  @B3_CHAD @UkaszGra https://co.wukko.me/
  
  Absolutely
I use a couple .bat files that I pre-wrote. Good enough for 95% of my needs.
I just have an alias stored in the bashrc file. One for audio and one for 1080p video.
If you ever want to use it on mobile i can recommend Seal https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal
Terminator
Stacher
CMD line info is 1st class but I'm trying Vividl and like it enough to use it.
https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader
zsh with a few aliases
I use Stacher
These heathens are in here typing out verbose commands and not setting up aliases.
yt-dlg works well for me: https://yt-dlg.github.io/yt-dlg/
NewTerm 3 and zsh on my iPad. What's a GUI?
- Graphical User Interface
- Graphical user Interface for people who don't want to use a command line.
  
  boooo!
The NewPipe app on android does also downloads youtube videos
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Try tzahi12345/youtubedl-material.
the terminal
Just the terminal on PC, Seal on Android.
None, I wrote a terminal UI (just to clean things up and customized to suit my need) that was originally for youtube-dl and switched to yt-dlp

Basically I have a Keyboard Maestro that reads my clipboard and automatically inserts any youtube links into a text file, so that I can run my script which downloads all the links and rename them accordingly.

Idk I just wrote two or three Powershell scripts that I added to path so I can choose to download video (merged), audio, or both (unmerged) with a selection dialog to choose formats.

I similarly made two functions depending on the use case (see comments in code) and saved them in Powershell's default profile (Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1) so I can invoke them with just one word directly in commandline, works great 👌

function Vid {
    param (
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [string]$link
    )
    yt-dlp -P "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads" $link -S "res:1080,br" --embed-subs --sub-langs all,-live_chat --remux mp4
} #Downloads videos using yt-dlp limited to 1080p; usage Vid YT_URL
function VidFull {
    param (
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [string]$link
    )
    yt-dlp -P "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads" $link --embed-subs --sub-langs all,-live_chat --remux mp4
} #Downloads videos using yt-dlp in maximum quality; usage VidFull YT_URL

iTerm
My preferred is youtube-dl-gui by murrty
Parabolic on Linux.
you can also use one of those telegram mirror groups. fucking dope

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