Please suggest me a Firefox addon for downloading Youtube videos.

[bsd007]

I installed youtube-dl but it refuses to work coz its out of date.

Please suggest me a Firefox addon for downloading Youtube videos.

[hitest]

Originally Posted by bsd007

I installed youtube-dl but it refuses to work coz its out of date.

Please suggest me a Firefox addon for downloading Youtube videos.

I watch Youtube videos on Firefox on OpenBSD 6.3 and it works just fine for me.

[bsd007]

Originally Posted by hitest

I watch Youtube videos on Firefox on OpenBSD 6.3 and it works just fine for me.

I too can play Youtube videos but this time I want to download them.

[jggimi]

Youtube changes its API frequently. Because of the company's cadence of change, youtube-dl and similar applications are best used from a -current platform.

[bsd007]

Originally Posted by jggimi

Youtube changes its API frequently. Because of the company's cadence of change, youtube-dl and similar applications are best used from a -current platform.

I don't want to move away from -release just for youtube-dl.
In the meantime I will keep looking for a Firefox addon.

Do you know know of any that actually works ?

[Paianni]

youtube-dl is best installed using the pip system:

pip install youtube_dl

pip is available in OpenBSD packages and youtube-dl is kept up-to-date on this system.

[bsd007]

Originally Posted by Paianni

youtube-dl is best installed using the pip system:

pip install youtube_dl

pip is available in OpenBSD packages and youtube-dl is kept up-to-date on this system.

Don't take this in a wrong way but I never install anything outside of the default repos.

I am paranoid about security.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[ibara]

There's also multimedia/py-pafy.

[Paianni]

Originally Posted by bsd007

Don't take this in a wrong way but I never install anything outside of the default repos.

I am paranoid about security.

Thanks for the suggestion.

You do realise that a browser addon/extension is also a piece of software installed outside the official repos?

[bsd007]

Originally Posted by Paianni

You do realise that a browser addon/extension is also a piece of software installed outside the official repos?

I get that but its not getting root privileges. When I install something as root the entire system is at risk.

[Paianni]

Originally Posted by bsd007

I get that but its not getting root privileges. When I install something as root the entire system is at risk.

Only the install program (in this case pip) requires root privileges for its operations, not the port being installed, and it's trusted enough to be in ports. youtube-dl does not run with root privileges unless you ask it to. OBSD's own mitigations will take care of the rest.

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by bsd007

I installed youtube-dl but it refuses to work coz its out of date.

I stronly suggest you stick to youtube-dl. It's the best ever and nothing comes even close. It works for hundreds of other websites by the way not only YouTube.
But you need to keep it up to date since Google intentionally keeps changing the way YouTube works.
Get the latest script from the MASTER site and save it to your ~/bin directory. Every week or so run youtube-dl.py -U to keep it up to date.

[fvgit]

You can install the -current youtube-dl on a stable 6.3 system. I did so yesterday when youtube-dl stopped working for me.

Please note: installing -current packages on a release system is generally not a good idea. You're mixing different code bases which can cause all sorts of problems and conflicts. That being said, for sth. like youtube-dl it seems to work, and we're only a few weeks away from 6.4 so if you want to bridge that time frame do a

pkg_add -v -D snap youtube-dl

If you're going to do a fresh install of 6.4 in a few weeks anyway it won't matter. If you're going to upgrade from 6.3 to 6.4 instead it's probably best to uninstall the new youtube-dl and any new dependencies before the upgrade process to avoid any possible problems.

[bsd007]

Originally Posted by fvgit

If you're going to do a fresh install of 6.4 in a few weeks anyway it won't matter.

Yes, I am going to upgrade to 6.4 as soon as its available so I guess I will wait.

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by bsd007

Yes, I am going to upgrade to 6.4 as soon as its available so I guess I will wait.

You must've overlooked my post.
There's no need to wait. Plus, 2 or 3 months after you upgrade, you'll be facing the exact same situation with YouTube as you are now anyway.

[bsd-keith]

Youtube has constantly changed things since it was taken over by Google, it's been a problem at times on my other forums where we use it to upload our efforts playing musical instruments for others to see (or laugh at).

[bsd007]

Originally Posted by Beastie

You must've overlooked my post.
There's no need to wait. Plus, 2 or 3 months after you upgrade, you'll be facing the exact same situation with YouTube as you are now anyway.

I have downloaded youtube-dl to /home/username/bin then did

chmod a+rx youtube-dl

but now when I try to download a video its not working

$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb3qUW4EyHc                                                                                                                                 
home$

^^No output.

[Paianni]

Perhaps it's because the script is in ~/bin and not in ~/.

[bsd007]

Originally Posted by Paianni

Perhaps it's because the script is in ~/bin and not in ~/.

When I type

yout then TAB its auto completing.

[IdOp]

You'll also need to quote the special characters in the URL to protect them from the shell, so try something like this (once path issues are resolved):

% youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb3qUW4EyHc'

(Note the single quotes in red.)