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Re: youtube video downloader for chrome



On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:53:10 -0500
David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed 20 Mar 2019 at 18:21:20 (-0400), Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:00:12 -0400 rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 02:10:57 PM David Wright wrote:
> > > > Actually I don't call youtube-dl as above, because I have two helper
> > > > functions which do things like history logging to prevent me
> > > > accidentally downloading the same video twice.
> > > 
> > > Are you willing to share?
> > 
> > Note that you can apparently do something like this natively with
> > youtube-dl itself - see its --download-archive option.
> 
> Sure, but I prefer my history file which saves a valid URL that
> I can pass on to people who don't use youtube-dl.

Gotcha - but your message mentioned specifically prevention of the
accidental download of the same video twice, which my suggestion
accomplishes.

Celejar


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