Comments on: YouTube-DLG – A GUI App for YouTube-DL Video Downloader

By: Jan Brøndum Johansson

Jan Brøndum Johansson — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 07:55:36 +0000

Works fine on my xubuntu 16.04 – Though I had to update Python manually and install the rest from .deb files

By: David Brown

David Brown — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:51:30 +0000

Is this available for Lubuntu 17.10 ?

By: David Pérez

David Pérez — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:39:07 +0000

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
Cannot add PPA: ‘ppa:~nilarimogard/ubuntu/webupd8’.
ERROR: ‘~nilarimogard’ user or team does not exist.

Using KDE Neon, based on Ubuntu 16.04.

By: Divine

Divine — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:08:25 +0000

In reply to gary.

In my experience, most nifty CLI-only apps have a syntax that is fairly straightforward and adaptable. But yes, try the GUI app and see. You might like it better.

By: TheOuterLinux

TheOuterLinux — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 04:02:22 +0000

What I do is install mpv and youtube-dl. mpv [url] automatically defaults to checking against youtube-dl. I can then just go to tonvid.com (YouTube but with a very simple interface) with w3m. I have my keyboard shortcut for opening with an external browser set to mpv -ytdl –vo=”opengl” –ao=”alsa”. My user agent for w3m is set to mobile Safari. This way, video sites default to mp4 and pressing Shift+M opens the URL with mpv and will play anything youtube-dl supports. If you’re in TTY and a high enough run level (3+; it might be 5), this works too. Though, me personally, I have to switch –vo=”opengl” to –vo=”drm” when in TTY. You can also install w3m-img if you need images beside video links to help navigate. I don’t though; I just use Shift+I because it doesn’t always display correctly.

By: gary

gary — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 23:09:48 +0000

youtube-dl is one of my fav utils. I’m glad I came across the CLI app long before I knew of the existence of this GUI front-end. I might never have bothered to learn the CLI syntax – which, it turns out, is fairly straighforward and adaptable. I might still give this a whirl to see if it makes certain operations easier.