On 12/23/2017 05:02 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/22/2017 04:06 PM, Ben Finney wrote:Richard Owlett <rowlett@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 -UBob'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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