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)
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Your URL just links to an image of Funimation. Was this meant to link to something else like a tutorial?
Link in post links to their github to me. They probably made it an image post to have the funimation image in the post :)
Basically that :D
Link in text! Picture is just picture.
What drama?
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.
Is crunchyroll in eu? Cause they are required to maintain the library, I’m sure
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.
It would be weird to do so I think. Crunchyroll doesn’t even allow to buy anime so I think they will allow people to download the ones they own on fun
they dont want people to own anything they want them to rent forever
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.
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
yt-dlp is amazing, it’s just magical and works everywhere!
It’s great, but I wish there was a GUI front-end for it.
Be the change you wanna see in the world!
Ahh awesome! Thank you.
Does it need one? This tool is dead simple
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
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.
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.https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#video-selection
This thing has lots, lots of options :)
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.
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?
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.
all front ends for yt-dlp
https://tartube.sourceforge.io/ https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader https://www.arrow-dl.com
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
