On 03/21/2019 11:57 AM, David Wright wrote:
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.
HI,
Well, it would appear that I did not use the downlevel version from the
Debian repository. If you install from the youtube-dl website and then
use the --update command you can be sure of having the latest version.
If one uses the --help command the update option will be shown. I
didn't know that was missing in the Debian version.
One option that might have helped with a problem that was posted in
about the last week is the --restrict-filenames option which may prevent
the need to quote the URL.
Best regards,
Fred
