10x smaller is certainly not suckless either. check the archives, you only need a couple lines to parse the youtube bullshit for the real video file with some sed or so.
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Ivan Tham <pickf...@riseup.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 10:03:51PM +0000, Teodoro Santoni wrote: >> >> Hi Laslo, >> >> 2016-12-24 10:11 GMT, Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de>: >>>> >>>> Anything else can be solved by finding your way into scraping the >>>> website and building a proxy that sends you a very simplified version >>>> of it at your w3m, links, lynx, dillo, mosaic or shell script. >>>> It isn't easier and should be packed into a standard distribution, >>>> but it isn't all that much of an enigma. >>> >>> >>> Never go full Stallman. >> >> >> I'm just lazy, like very lazy, and the youtube-dl model looks appealing >> to me: trusting someone dedicated to a naked representation >> of a single website, not doing the scraper yourself... I although know >> well that a package manager or a single standard distrib leads >> to drawbacks like dbus, keith packard and the funny story of lpad >> on npm (node devs deserved it in full!) [0]. > > >> youtube-dl: A small command-line program to download videos from >> YouTube.com and a few more sites > > > And don't forget that there is you-get which is 10x smaller than > youtube-dl. Youtube-dl isn't considered small. > > > -- > Do what you like, like what you do. -- Pickfire >
