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!

    • 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.

              • utopiah@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                9 months ago

                Photos… as in exploring content that is not text based? … I knew it was bait.

                • Deceptichum@kbin.social
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                  9 months ago

                  What did you expect me to say GUIs are better at the thing CLI at better at?

                  The whole point is the graphical side of it, so of course I’m going to choose something visual.

                  It’s not bait just because I don’t answer a question in a way that lets you act like a smug Linux nerd.

    • 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