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Anon tries to download videos from youtube (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 27 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

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

[–] stewi1914@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 0 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] stom@sh.itjust.works 1 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.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

Normies don't deserve joy.

[–] Saithe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 7 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 8 points 4 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 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 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 9 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 8 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 3 points 7 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.