On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 07:39 -0500, Temlakos wrote: > what commands does one use with youtube-dl? It's a command line tool. There's a few ways I've used it: 1. Give it the web page address of a youtube clip: youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoI57NeMwCc 2. Give it the code number of a youtube clip: youtube-dl OoI57NeMwCc (this is the same as the above clip) 3. Give it the web page address of some other site that has videos playing on it, as per my first example. Not all clips will download, the sites may put in insurmountable restrictions, or awkward to avoid restrictions, or may be simply incompatible. According to the man page, there is a list of supported sites. I've frequently used it to play things that just stutter and jam when using a web browser, or when the site doesn't want to play ball with a web browser running "noscript." Sometimes, if you get a failure to download, simply repeating the command (without changing anything) will make it work. -- [tim@localhost ~] -rsvp Linux 4.13.16-100.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 19:52:46 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
