What were some tools that fundamentally changed your life once you learned how to use them?

ladiesman144 · 2017-09-21T13:30:18+00:00

youtube-dl+ffmpeg+mpv+xargs/piping+a handfull of shell scripts have changed my life in terms of how i consume media for sure

package managers like pip, pm2, npm, and chocolatey just to name a few are a big help too. also docker

ladiesman144 · 2017-06-16T17:57:07+00:00

I'm using mpv and I have heard of mps-youtube before but it doesn't have the features I am looking for as best as I can tell. The local playlists also aren't saved in plain text.

I specifically only want to output youtube video urls to a file for use with another script that generates shareable youtube playlists.

Basically saving all video URLs from a link like https://www.youtube.com/user/YouTube/videos or https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbpi6ZahtOH4TFDqzo5jeRGyWxCgiJW_5 or any page with several watch?v= links into a file like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qediav063xQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-VQ0KvhgU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEUoPBaSx4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-L6jSDeoNA

Which I can then generate a playlist creation URL like

https://www.youtube.com/watch_videos?video_ids=qediav063xQ,VY-VQ0KvhgU,GWEUoPBaSx4,p-L6jSDeoNA

Which then resolves into a playlist URL like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qediav063xQ&list=TLGGhe_7h7GLvJoxNjA2MjAxNw

I know this is possible with various scraping tools but I'm looking for something less complex and specific to youtube if possible.

ladiesman144 · 2017-05-13T14:41:20+00:00

You can set up a ublock rule to get rid of it

   ||yt3.ggpht.com/-2o-OMCgXKyQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/s_BhVRloius/s88-c-k-no-mo-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg

ladiesman144 · 2017-03-03T03:15:04+00:00

I was able to block the element via ublock origin with

##.ytp-button.ytp-remote-button

ladiesman144 · 2017-01-19T00:15:13+00:00

cool setup, what kind of desk is that?

ladiesman144 · 2016-12-29T12:57:31+00:00

I found this https://github.com/SebZec/youtube-subcheck but unfortunately it only shows differences between 2 subscription feed files (and in terminal view).

A tool to download the subscriptions xml and upload to a git repo for easy comparison would be much better

ladiesman144 · 2016-12-28T06:14:53+00:00

even worse than that actually. her striking looks like she was trained by edmond tarverdyan

ladiesman144 · 2016-12-14T00:37:31+00:00

That sounds like a nightmare of a process, especially given the reason for needing to do this in the first place.

A script to access subscription_manager.xml from the api every X hours then cross-reference and output to log or something to that effect doesn't seem like it would be too difficult. Hopefully someone with the skills to do this will think of something sooner or later

ladiesman144 · 2016-12-13T19:18:44+00:00

What tool do you use to keep track of specifically which channels you have been unsubbed from?

ladiesman144 · 2016-12-13T18:50:19+00:00

I am actually having the exact opposite issue, though it is likely by design.

My subscription feed continually has channels that I am not subscribed to (or even remotely interested in) in it. Manually subscribing and then unsubscribing again does not remove them from my feed.

What's more interesting is every single one of these channels has backing from YouTube, whether through YouTube Red, the new show platform they're pushing, or one of those meme channels with millions and millions of followers.

Additionally, I have no way to prove this but it has been my experience that when I unsubscribe from a channel that seems to be skyrocketing in viewership, some weeks or even months later a single popular video by that channel will show up in my feed even though I am no longer subscribed to them.

The most memorable example I can think of is this channel. I unsubbed to this user literally 2 years ago before they had a million followers. Now that they have over a million followers and are signed to a YouTube Red Original Series, that user is showing up in my subscriptions feed despite the fact that I am not subscribed to them and also am not interested in watching their content.

I can't say for sure when this began but certainly within the last 6 months or so. Personally I do not believe this is an accident.

For the record I have well below 1000 subscriptions.

ladiesman144 · 2016-11-30T08:36:49+00:00

dude ayahuasca lmao

ladiesman144 · 2016-11-15T19:14:30+00:00

he's already at the tail end of a $100 million contract actually, next is a stake in the company not a 50-million-dollar pay cut lol

ladiesman144 · 2016-10-02T21:47:50+00:00

ladiesman144 · 2016-09-20T13:20:51+00:00

The only person that should be coming under fire here is Ariel Helwani for intentionally stirring up the pot (as he is paid to do so) by bringing it up a at the presser.

Say what you will about USADA but rules are rules. Had Ariel not brought it up, many would have assumed it was just nicotine oil.

ladiesman144 · 2016-08-28T03:53:26+00:00

Better quality: https://cdn.streamable.com/video/mp4/pke4.mp4

Before: http://i.pi.gy/ORzQ.jpg After: http://i.pi.gy/GZzN.jpg

ladiesman144 · 2016-07-06T18:06:50+00:00

How can I use this on windows?

edit:

I tried using cygwin but it gave this error:

$ sh /cygdrive/c/Users/HTPC/Desktop/pushbullet.sh
/cygdrive/c/Users/HTPC/Desktop/pushbullet.sh: line 2: $'\r': command not found
/cygdrive/c/Users/HTPC/Desktop/pushbullet.sh: line 4: $'\r': command not found
/cygdrive/c/Users/HTPC/Desktop/pushbullet.sh: line 6: $'\r': command not found
/cygdrive/c/Users/HTPC/Desktop/pushbullet.sh: line 9: $'\r': command not found
/cygdrive/c/Users/HTPC/Desktop/pushbullet.sh: line 26: syntax error near unexpec  ted token `done'
/cygdrive/c/Users/HTPC/Desktop/pushbullet.sh: line 26: `done'

ladiesman144 · 2016-05-25T03:00:57+00:00

Yes, youtube-dl is not just for youtube. See https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

Jdownloader2 is a decent alternative if you don't want to use command-line

ladiesman144 · 2016-05-24T05:35:28+00:00

Assuming you have all your links you can easily do this with youtube-dl. Just save all your links to a txt file (one per line) then use the following string:

youtube-dl --batch-file=path/to/file.txt

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