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Anon tries to download videos from youtube (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 142 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

yt-dlp

[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 30 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

I was surprised at how well it works but anything command line is not for normies

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

You can use the OpenWith extensions to add it as a right click option.

I have this setup for my non-technical family members, so they just right click on the page choose open with -> ytdlp and it saves it to their downloads folder.

You can set up different options for example video or audio only.

[–] stewi1914@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Nah I'm sorry. There is a point where it's unreasonable to expect someone to learn something, but that isn't it.

Using yt-dlp is extremely straightforward.

Being ignorant and proud of it is a horrid personality trait. The average person knows how to drive a car, how to call others using their phone and how to use an ATM.

Typing 7 characters and copy-pasting a link is well within their abilities.

[–] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works -1 points 31 minutes ago

The average person learns how to drive a car, which is akin to operating it. The average person does not know how to muck about in the engine of their car, and should not, because if they do the wrong thing they could break it. For that matter, I wouldn't even recommend someone OPERATES the car without training.

The terminal is considered for advanced users for the same reason. Learning to copy/paste into the terminal without understanding how to use it could mean I say "oh yeah the fix for that issue is doing rm -rf / --no-preserve-root.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

I agree with the sentiment but you are going way too hard on it. Chill.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Normies don't deserve joy.

[–] Saithe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone who’s done “/gamemode creative” is smart enough to figure out “yt-dlp ”. Seriously people need to stop acting like typing the most basic commands that you can find tutorials about is some kinda level 9 magic

[–] essell@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

I think you've defined the problem rather well there..

It's not that Normies couldn't use it, it's that Normies won't use it.

[–] Honeybee@sh.itjust.works 36 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Thats why I run it in docker with a web ui (On my server behind a reverse proxy, so I could get HTTPS working)

Shut up, im not a nerd

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If you are on an android phone you should check the F-Droid pages for Seal. No commandline, a nice GUI, works great.

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 hours ago

+1 for Seal, Newpipe and Tubular both work fine too

[–] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 3 points 8 hours ago

There's GUIs for it though. Obviously not for everyone, but I made my own.

That it can download virtually from any site is pretty useful, assuming you know what to give it.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Do you type that in the windows finder bar?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Its a package, so it gets delivered in the mail