On Thu 21 Mar 2019 at 10:17:11 (-0700), Fred wrote: > On 03/21/2019 08:41 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 21 Mar 2019 at 15:38:41 (+0100), Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Celejar wrote: > > > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:34:42 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel > > > > <pierre.frenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, riveravaldez wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Maybe worth mentioning: youtube-dl, exceptionally useful and simple > > > > > > CLI tool. > > > > > useful and simple... but it works only for urls with alphanumeric > > > > > characters > > > > > I tried with an url containing ? and &, and I got nothing > > > > > I tried also by escaping ? and & with \, and it was not better. > > > > > I'll send you an example later, if you are not convinced... > > > > You can also try putting the url(s) in a file, and feeding the file to > > > > youtube-dl via its -a option. > > > > > > > > Celejar > > > > > > > At last, I fixed everything just by loadind the last version of > > > youtube-dl from the > > > yt-dl site > > > wget https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -O > > > /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl > > > > > > after that, I can do either > > > youtube-dl --no-playlist > > > 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQd1IOyhKS4&list=RDEMlHFFKeq-aYlBhg-LtJ-SHw&start_radio=1' > > > or > > > youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQd1IOyhKS4 both give > > > exactly the same result. > > > > > > My question is why the Debian version so obsolte ans uneliable? > > The latest version on the website is three days old. The version I > > installed from backports on Jan 28 was 11 days old. > > > > You have to understand that sites like youtube and the BBC can > > obsolete youtube-dl and get_iplayer overnight, and they do. > > Then some clever people come up with a fix and release a new > > version, and I heave a big sigh of relief and thanks. (Most > > BBC programmes expire after four weeks, and I'm usually two or > > three weeks behind, so a quick fix is vital.) > > > > Debian mainstream doesn't work to that timetable, so you should > > check out the backports, where those sorts of package appear. > > Fortunately, get_iplayer is a single Perl script so I just > > download it from its site and put it in ~/bin, as you can see > > from my examples. > > > Hi, > I think you would be better off with: > > youtube-dl --update
a) Why? b) How? $ youtube-dl --update Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...] youtube-dl: error: youtube-dl's self-update mechanism is disabled on Debian. Please update youtube-dl using apt(8). See https://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl for the latest packaged version. $ > also: > > youtube-dl --help > > will show all the options. … and, of course, --update is missing. But which of these options did you mean to draw my attention to? Cheers, David.
