As Funimation drama unravels, here’s a reminder for you that yt-dlp is able to download Funimation videos. Use that opportunity to preserve your collections before they’re gone! (and keep them forever and ever)

Credits to humble jbk@discuss.tchncs.de who brought that up!

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I do this for music, have a tiny batch script that I mostly borrowed from some other stack exchange post that I just dump the URL and the name of the file and it converts it to mp3 and dumps it into a folder. I use it to get music to DJ with for small house parties. yt-dlp is great highly recommend it for anyone

    • Tsaot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Sony owns both Crunchyroll and Funimation. Sony is consolidating Funimation into Crunchyroll, but they are not preserving people’s digital collections. People are losing access to the digital collections they purchased on Funimation even though Sony isn’t going out of business.

        • utopiah@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Not a lawyer but it seems in lot of EU cases companies, e.g Apple or Facebook, go with 2 versions, i.e one for EU customers and one (usually the bad one) for others. I’d bet in the case either they pay the fine or make 2 versions.

              • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                9 months ago

                Thankfully we have the EU to stand up to these companies. Shame my country left it and we have Tories desperately trying to implement the dystopia of American corporate scamming that appears to be consumer culture in most developed countries on the other side of the world.

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Your URL just links to an image of Funimation. Was this meant to link to something else like a tutorial?

    • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Link in post links to their github to me. They probably made it an image post to have the funimation image in the post :)

    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Thanks mate, I always feel a bit silly when someone links a GitHub page and I’ve not got a Scooby how to use it lol

        • Poiar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I’m with you. Used to use front ends, but when everything is configured nicely, the CLI becomes way more simple and powerful. Just for the ability alone to batch your downloads, the CLI is a total winner in my book :)

          For the record, I can recommend using the following programs in combination with it:

          Sublime Text - For editing your commands

          Xtreme download manager - For extracting the urls

          The network tab in your browser - For getting the m3u8

          VS Code - For a nice UI to run it

        • Deceptichum@kbin.social
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          9 months ago

          Yeah for doing batch stuff. I’d like to be able to say copy and paste 15 different playlists, deselect some of the videos in them, and be able to walk away from my computer.

          • hedgehog@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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            9 months ago

            If you’re copy pasting playlists using plain text files (one url per line) you can download every url in a single file by running yt-dlp -a <filename>. If you have multiple files, it’s straightforward to write a shell script that calls it for each of them.

            • Deceptichum@kbin.social
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              9 months ago

              That is not easier or quicker than shift selecting 70 videos in a list in a list and ctrl clicking the 6 I don’t want.

              There’s a reason GUIs won out over CLIs for most use cases.

              • utopiah@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                9 months ago

                There’s a reason GUIs won out over CLIs for most use cases.

                (I shouldn’t take the bait…) ah, and what do you think that is?

                • Deceptichum@kbin.social
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                  9 months ago

                  Because they are simpler and easier.

                  Take for example a photo of folders, you can easily parse through a grid of photos to find the picture you’re looking.

                  CLI are great for some things, and they’re not great for others.