10x smaller is certainly not suckless either. check the archives, you
only need a couple lines to parse the youtube bullshit for the real
video file with some sed or so.
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Ivan Tham <pickfire_AT_riseup.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 10:03:51PM +0000, Teodoro Santoni wrote:
>>
>> Hi Laslo,
>>
>> 2016-12-24 10:11 GMT, Laslo Hunhold <dev_AT_frign.de>:
>>>>
>>>> Anything else can be solved by finding your way into scraping the
>>>> website and building a proxy that sends you a very simplified version
>>>> of it at your w3m, links, lynx, dillo, mosaic or shell script.
>>>> It isn't easier and should be packed into a standard distribution,
>>>> but it isn't all that much of an enigma.
>>>
>>>
>>> Never go full Stallman.
>>
>>
>> I'm just lazy, like very lazy, and the youtube-dl model looks appealing
>> to me: trusting someone dedicated to a naked representation
>> of a single website, not doing the scraper yourself... I although know
>> well that a package manager or a single standard distrib leads
>> to drawbacks like dbus, keith packard and the funny story of lpad
>> on npm (node devs deserved it in full!) [0].
>
>
>> youtube-dl: A small command-line program to download videos from
>> YouTube.com and a few more sites
>
>
> And don't forget that there is you-get which is 10x smaller than
> youtube-dl. Youtube-dl isn't considered small.
>
>
> --
> Do what you like, like what you do. -- Pickfire
>
Received on Sun Dec 25 2016 - 14:33:09 CET