YT-DLP help NOTE

[j***@astraweb.com]

If anyone did like myself and wrote the YOUTUBE-DL help file to disk and then when YT-DLP came out just
kept using the old help file from YOUTUBE-DL,

The YT-DLP help file is about twice as big. (I have not checked for differences)

(Windows 7 emulator command "YT-DLP -h > ytdlphelp.txt" )

[David E. Ross]

Post by j***@astraweb.com
If anyone did like myself and wrote the YOUTUBE-DL help file to disk and then when YT-DLP came out just
kept using the old help file from YOUTUBE-DL,
The YT-DLP help file is about twice as big. (I have not checked for differences)
(Windows 7 emulator command "YT-DLP -h > ytdlphelp.txt" )

Where can I get the ytdlphelp.txt file? Github is too confusing.

[Char Jackson]

Post by David E. Ross

Post by j***@astraweb.com
If anyone did like myself and wrote the YOUTUBE-DL help file to disk and then when YT-DLP came out just
kept using the old help file from YOUTUBE-DL,
The YT-DLP help file is about twice as big. (I have not checked for differences)
(Windows 7 emulator command "YT-DLP -h > ytdlphelp.txt" )

Where can I get the ytdlphelp.txt file? Github is too confusing.

You can create it yourself.

Run yt-dlp.exe (or whatever you've called it) with the -h argument to see its
help file on screen. Now redirect that help output to a file, as follows.

prompt> yt-dlp.exe -h >yt-dlp_help.txt

The result is a text file, in the current directory, because we didn't
explicitly add a path that places it somewhere else, called yt-dlp_help.txt.

You can name the text file however you'd like, but I'd keep the .txt extension
since it's just a simple text file. Open it with Notepad, for example, to browse
its contents.

[David E. Ross]

Post by Char Jackson

Post by David E. Ross

Post by j***@astraweb.com
If anyone did like myself and wrote the YOUTUBE-DL help file to disk and then when YT-DLP came out just
kept using the old help file from YOUTUBE-DL,
The YT-DLP help file is about twice as big. (I have not checked for differences)
(Windows 7 emulator command "YT-DLP -h > ytdlphelp.txt" )

Where can I get the ytdlphelp.txt file? Github is too confusing.

You can create it yourself.
Run yt-dlp.exe (or whatever you've called it) with the -h argument to see its
help file on screen. Now redirect that help output to a file, as follows.
prompt> yt-dlp.exe -h >yt-dlp_help.txt
The result is a text file, in the current directory, because we didn't
explicitly add a path that places it somewhere else, called yt-dlp_help.txt.
You can name the text file however you'd like, but I'd keep the .txt extension
since it's just a simple text file. Open it with Notepad, for example, to browse
its contents.

I am running Windows 7 x64. I have yt-dlp as downloaded and installed
by ClipGrab. Notice that it does NOT have .exe as a file extension. I
tried the following without success:
yt-dlp -h
yt-dlp /?
help yt-dlp
I also tried renaming it as yt-dlp.exe, also without success.

Finally, I downloaded yt-dlp_win.zip and unzipped it to get a Windows
version of yt-dlp.exe. Success!!

[j***@astraweb.com]

Post by David E. Ross

Post by j***@astraweb.com
If anyone did like myself and wrote the YOUTUBE-DL help file to disk and then when YT-DLP came out just
kept using the old help file from YOUTUBE-DL,
The YT-DLP help file is about twice as big. (I have not checked for differences)
(Windows 7 emulator command "YT-DLP -h > ytdlphelp.txt" )

Where can I get the ytdlphelp.txt file? Github is too confusing.

Looks like CHAR gave you a complete answer. Happy downloading. Having looked at several downloaders
"like" YT-DLP, it, IMO, is the best because of its flexibility due to a double armload of argument
options. I think the fact that it is a natively commandline program scares some people who are used to
a GUI interface.
I was looking at it this morning and used this argument --
--write-auto-subs Write automatically generated subtitle file.
Which it did nicely and if it is a video with the a formal subtitle file it will write it as a .vtt file
which works fine in VLC, or you can use another argument to write it to your preferred subtitle format.

[J. P. Gilliver]

In message <***@4ax.com> at Wed, 24 Apr
2024 17:11:35, ***@astraweb.com writes
[]

Post by j***@astraweb.com
Having looked at several downloaders
"like" YT-DLP, it, IMO, is the best because of its flexibility due to a
double armload of argument

Yes, it has indeed many options. But also, it usually works fine without
the need to invoke any (other than the URL of course!).

Post by j***@astraweb.com
options. I think the fact that it is a natively commandline program
scares some people who are used to
a GUI interface.
I was looking at it this morning and used this argument --
--write-auto-subs Write automatically generated subtitle file.
Which it did nicely and if it is a video with the a formal subtitle
file it will write it as a .vtt file
which works fine in VLC, or you can use another argument to write it to
your preferred subtitle format.

That's the one argument I do use. Well, I use --write-subs normally (if
I want subtitles), as that generally gives better ones; it's only if
there aren't any (i. e. that doesn't work) that I insert the -auto.

(Normally as I said I don't use _any_ parameters other than the URL.)

Despite its name, yt-dlp (which, incidentally, you can rename: I've just
renamed it to y.exe) works on most pages with a video in them, not just
YouTube.