On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 08:42:17 (+0200), Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > See package youtube-dl. Just give the URL you see in your browser > as argument to the youtube-dl command (beware of special characters, > better use "...", see man youtube-dl). > This works also for other sites with movies.
Silly me. "get-youtube" is my bash function for youtube-dl and my fingers just type it automatically. It has some extra logic, including maintaining a history file to prevent accidently downloading the same thing twice. "get-others" handles the other sites and shares the same history file. The history file is vital when you have, say, 300MB medleys with multiple links pointing to them, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_6xmqAc9RE which I might otherwise have downloaded seven times through the different links. Cheers, David.
