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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] SpicyTaint@lemmy.world 103 points 16 hours ago (29 children)

I've started bulk downloading videos with yt-dlp and watching them locally. No ads or throttling to deal with.

[–] B_DL@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I’m new to yt-dlp. Care to share your flags? I’m a little confused on which ones I actually need.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 22 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, you don't need anything; it'll work with no flags. I have these:

$ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config
--embed-subs
--embed-metadata
--embed-chapters
--embed-thumbnail
--sponsorblock-mark=all
$

That'll just embed some useful metadata in the file.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Note that subtitles doesn't include automatic subtitles. For that you have to do --write-auto-subs in conjunction

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks.

EDIT: There isn't an --embed-auto-subs, but there is a --write-auto-subs.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 12 hours ago

Fixed thanks.

[–] SpicyTaint@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm a filthy Windows user that's too lazy to migrate my main PC to Fedora.

> Path\to\yt-dlp.exe -P <target directory> <URL>

Multiple URLs can be separated by spaces. Put any URLs with ampersands in quotes or remove the ampersand and following arguments.

You can find a list of all the arguments on the yt-dlp github page

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I like https://github.com/ArabCoders/ytptube gui. Only started using it yesterday, so far for indovidual videos. However it looks like it can also watch new videos being uploaded, thought not tried it myself.

Use docker compose for quick deployment

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