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Use yt-dlp to download your videos from Funimation! (lemmy.today)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What drama?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is crunchyroll in eu? Cause they are required to maintain the library, I’m sure

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

they dont want people to own anything they want them to rent forever

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

all front ends for yt-dlp

https://tartube.sourceforge.io/ https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader https://www.arrow-dl.com

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your URL just links to an image of Funimation. Was this meant to link to something else like a tutorial?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Link in post links to their github to me. They probably made it an image post to have the funimation image in the post :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Basically that :D

Link in text! Picture is just picture.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yt-dlp is amazing, it's just magical and works everywhere!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's great, but I wish there was a GUI front-end for it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Be the change you wanna see in the world!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Does it need one? This tool is dead simple

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What did you expect me to say GUIs are better at the thing CLI at better at?

The whole point is the graphical side of it, so of course I’m going to choose something visual.

It’s not bait just because I don’t answer a question in a way that lets you act like a smug Linux nerd.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

smug Linux nerd.

well kudos, first person I block on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

K.