youtube-dl-interactive
Dev tools
command-line downloader frontend
SHOW HN2019
196points
90comments
#195of 2,195 in 2019
Top 9%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
9 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score -0.05.
Idea: 2 for, 6 againstExecution: 2 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for remembering youtube-dl flags
From 2 comments
Looooooove this package! Use `youtube-dl` regularly and always forget the params. It's a nightmare. Opened a PR to remove Lodash, emojis welcomed:…
acassara on HN'Because remembering CLI flags is hard.' Indeed. :)
Rolpa on HN
Nice interactive UI
From 2 comments
I just have an alias with the format codes I want in order of preference (youtube-dl allows that) That's a very nice interactive ui though
paol on HNIt's impressive how little code is needed with 7 npm dependencies for a little CLI program.
loeg on HN
Objections
Too many npm dependencies for a small script
From 3 comments
380 dependencies for like 30 lines of bash script. Javascript became the cancer of the Internet.
howiroll on HNJesus .. the package.json alone is probably longer then a shellscript would be that implements the same functionality.
founderling on HNIt's impressive how little code is needed with 7 npm dependencies for a little CLI program.
loeg on HN
A shell script would do the same job
From 2 comments
This is too trivial to share, IMO. Anyway, shell is more suitable for this kind of programs: you could write a bash script that ties together youtube-dl and dmenu or fzf or…
klntsky on HNJesus .. the package.json alone is probably longer then a shellscript would be that implements the same functionality.
founderling on HN
Too trivial to share
From 1 comment
This is too trivial to share, IMO. Anyway, shell is more suitable for this kind of programs: you could write a bash script that ties together youtube-dl and dmenu or fzf or…
klntsky on HN
Requests
Remove unnecessary dependencies
From 2 comments
Just few questions checking the repo. Why are you using meow? It seems like you are just using it to grab args and print help. Does it do something that is not immediately…
nextlevelwizard on HNLooooooove this package! Use `youtube-dl` regularly and always forget the params. It's a nightmare. Opened a PR to remove Lodash, emojis welcomed:…
acassara on HN
Provide a snap package
From 1 comment
please, need a snap to install it!
cm-t on HN
Questions
Why use meow and log-symbols
From 1 comment
Just few questions checking the repo. Why are you using meow? It seems like you are just using it to grab args and print help. Does it do something that is not immediately…
nextlevelwizard on HN
Would Python have been a better choice
From 1 comment
Just few questions checking the repo. Why are you using meow? It seems like you are just using it to grab args and print help. Does it do something that is not immediately…
nextlevelwizard on HN
Alternatives named
Bash scripts with fzf or dmenu
From 3 comments
This is too trivial to share, IMO. Anyway, shell is more suitable for this kind of programs: you could write a bash script that ties together youtube-dl and dmenu or fzf or…
klntsky on HNWould be pretty straightforward to do with fzf.
mirashii on HNCool, here's my simple script to select format called vdl, and can be extended: ``` #!/bin/bash OPTS="-o %(title)s.%(ext)s --console-title --restrict-filenames" if [ "$#" -eq 2…
mixmastamyk on HN
Format aliases in youtube-dl
From 1 comment
I just have an alias with the format codes I want in order of preference (youtube-dl allows that) That's a very nice interactive ui though
paol on HN