Bug#777220: ITP: you-get -- downloader for youtube and number of sites

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>
>
> * Package name    : you-get
>   Version         : 0.3.32
>   Upstream Author : Mort Yao <mort.yao@gmail.com>
> * URL             : http://www.soimort.org/you-get/
> * License         : MIT
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : Non-interactive video downloader
>
>
> you-get is a video downloader for [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com),
> [Youku](http://www.youku.com), [niconico](http://www.nicovideo.jp) and
> a few other sites.
>
> `you-get` is a command-line program, written completely in Python
> 3. Its prospective users are those who prefer CLI over GUI. With
> `you-get`, downloading a video is just one command away:
>
>     $ you-get http://youtu.be/sGwy8DsUJ4M
>
> I use it and plan to maintain packaging for Debian.  As much as I
> know, it is THE console downloading solution.

Hi Dmitry,

Have you heard of the package youtube-dl?

% apt-cache policy youtube-dl
youtube-dl:
  Installed: 2015.01.16-1
  Candidate: 2015.01.16-1
  Version table:
 *** 2015.01.16-1 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2014.08.05-1 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages


I know there is concern about introducing packages into Debian where
packages that provide similar (exact?) functionality already exist.

Perhaps highlight the differences between the two packages and why
you-get is better/different.

Thanks for contributing to Debian!

-m