On 12/23/2017 05:02 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/22/2017 04:06 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> writes:
I've never used youtube before.
One thing to note explicitly: YouTube is deliberately designed to
thwart downloading videos.
YouTube's owner (Google, Alphabet, whatever they call themselves next
year) have chosen a business model [0] that benefits when more people
keep watching videos *via the site* [1]. So downloading videos from
the site works directly against the business model they have chosen.
I personally consider Google goal is to be as obnoxious as possible.
I avoid them whenever physically possible.
Just use youtube-dl on the command line while being in the directory you
wish to save the video in. The copy the video url and use it like this:
>youtube-dl <paste the URL here>
Every once in awhile use this to update it
>sudo youtube-dl -U
Bob's your uncle. BTW, Google is no where as obnoxious as AOL during the
old days when you could be paying hundreds a month for access to the web
and email. I'll take Google any day and thank them for the huge
freebies. Ric
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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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