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)

Credits to humble jbk@discuss.tchncs.de who brought that up!

        • Deceptichum@kbin.social
          71·
          11 months ago

          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.

            • Deceptichum@kbin.social
              151·
              11 months ago

              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.

              • utopiah@lemmy.mlEnglish
                51·
                11 months ago

                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?

                • Deceptichum@kbin.social
                  9·
                  11 months ago

                  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.

                  • utopiah@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    24·
                    11 months ago

                    Photos… as in exploring content that is not text based? … I knew it was bait.

          • hedgehog@ttrpg.networkEnglish
            41·
            11 months ago

            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.

        • Poiar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          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