Protip: youtube-dl

Works with any website I can think of. Allows you to download youtube in playlists, single videos, but also sites like soundcloud for music purposes.

Basically a lot of what I've thrown at it has seemed to work if you need something to scrape individual media content from a web page (maybe even multiple, only tried with single).

sudo [package_manager] apt-get install youtube-dl

I love it, never did get an RSS client to auto-fetch YT videos yet tho

also, there is livesteamer

livestreamer "http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload/pop-out" best

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Another possible tip is for people using a digital ocean server, It does not work for me unless I use -4 to force it to use IPV4.

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Holy crap I've been needing something like this!

For the hell of it, I am ripping all of the tek videos from yt in case they all go poof. Might not happen, but I have the time, space, and internet speed.

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This is also available for Windows, it can be installed using Chocolatey. Remember to also grab FFmpeg as well.
Great tool.

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I was writing one of these. I was going to have it sync new videos to my devices.

You don't need to install it. Just open a command windows in the same directory and launch it

was? ;) maybe you can get back to the higher level parts based on this

I'll put some work into it.

Another alternative is Jdownloader that has the capability.

Yeah, JDownloader is what I'm using most of the time.
Works with damn near anything and is multi platform.
Only downside is the J. ;)

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