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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)
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[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fully, you say?

$ yt-dlp -f 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading webpage
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading 1 format(s): 22
[download] Destination: Noiselund - Are You There？ [WFEEZBmUYTM].mp4
[download] 100% of   12.82MiB in 00:00:04 at 2.99MiB/s

Oh, guess not.

[–] Sunrosa@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah yt-dlp has been my strat this whole time anyway. Also Piped and Invidious get the job done when i'm too lazy to type in one short command for every video I watch.

Also, specifying format with yt-dlp is unnecessary ("-f 22") if you have ffmpeg installed iirc because it automatically selects the highest quality, thus shortening the command even further.

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use -f 22 to set a lower quality actually, because most videos are needlessly larger than my 5K monitor.

[–] jack@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago

You can also put "alias y=yt-dlp" in your ~/.bashrc to minimize it to "y". Or set up a keyboard shortcut to a script that executes the command with your clipboard content.

Or do the same with "mpv" instead of "yt-dlp" to watch the video stream directly without downloading.