On Thu 21 Mar 2019 at 15:38:41 (+0100), Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:34:42 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, riveravaldez wrote: > > > > > > > Maybe worth mentioning: youtube-dl, exceptionally useful and simple CLI > > > > tool. > > > > > > useful and simple... but it works only for urls with alphanumeric > > > characters > > > I tried with an url containing ? and &, and I got nothing > > > I tried also by escaping ? and & with \, and it was not better. > > > I'll send you an example later, if you are not convinced... > > > > You can also try putting the url(s) in a file, and feeding the file to > > youtube-dl via its -a option. > > > > Celejar > > > > At last, I fixed everything just by loadind the last version of youtube-dl > from the > yt-dl site > wget https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl > > after that, I can do either > youtube-dl --no-playlist > 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQd1IOyhKS4&list=RDEMlHFFKeq-aYlBhg-LtJ-SHw&start_radio=1' > or > youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQd1IOyhKS4 both give > exactly the same result. > > My question is why the Debian version so obsolte ans uneliable?
The latest version on the website is three days old. The version I installed from backports on Jan 28 was 11 days old. You have to understand that sites like youtube and the BBC can obsolete youtube-dl and get_iplayer overnight, and they do. Then some clever people come up with a fix and release a new version, and I heave a big sigh of relief and thanks. (Most BBC programmes expire after four weeks, and I'm usually two or three weeks behind, so a quick fix is vital.) Debian mainstream doesn't work to that timetable, so you should check out the backports, where those sorts of package appear. Fortunately, get_iplayer is a single Perl script so I just download it from its site and put it in ~/bin, as you can see from my examples. Cheers, David.
