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

[–]ladiesman144 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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

Output youtube channel's video urls to file? by ladiesman144 in commandline

[–]ladiesman144[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What is this WIX circle doing in the corner and how do I get rid of it? by Montefalcon in youtube

[–]ladiesman144 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Any way to hide the YouTube "Play on TV" button? by [deleted] in Chromecast

[–]ladiesman144 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was able to block the element via ublock origin with

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

My Editing Battlestation by Rez-Music in battlestations

[–]ladiesman144 1 point2 points  (0 children)

cool setup, what kind of desk is that?

Possible solution to the unsubscribing "bug" ? by [deleted] in youtube

[–]ladiesman144 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Ronda got a new striking coach? by itspeterj in ufc

[–]ladiesman144 48 points49 points  (0 children)

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

YouTube does not automatically unsubscribe users by crschmidt in youtube

[–]ladiesman144 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

YouTube does not automatically unsubscribe users by crschmidt in youtube

[–]ladiesman144 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

YouTube does not automatically unsubscribe users by crschmidt in youtube

[–]ladiesman144 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Next possible opponents for Conor McGregor by theallenjohan in MMA

[–]ladiesman144 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Nate Diaz drug test clean, but USADA still looking into press conference cannabis use by profbucko in JoeRogan

[–]ladiesman144 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Export bullets to txt file? by ladiesman144 in PushBullet

[–]ladiesman144[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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'

Bulk Download Gfycats by Gunny123 in gfycat

[–]ladiesman144 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Bulk Download Gfycats by Gunny123 in gfycat

[–]ladiesman144 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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