Years ago, I bought a very cheap brick car set to build when I am emotionally distressed.
Then my car was totaled.
Today, I am emotional undistressed enough to build it:
How to find orphan commits (git)
I am aiming to publish one video per day for the month of November while expending as little effort as possible to rip off Technology Connections. You’re welcome.
You can view more information about this video here.
For information on how to use git: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumOmMA6hDI
Or, make chili: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v2gmNWGHm0
YouTube Censorship Made Me Write a Script
Updated 2024-10-27: Recent blocking attempts have made downloading videos more difficult. I recommend downloading videos outside of the USA. I also recommend looking at alternative clients for watching videos such as Invidious and GrayJay.
YouTube’s been forcing creators to censor their works more and more, and often times after a successful publish of said content. More history and valuable information is being lost every day because a corporation controls the largest source of video content freely available.
At the same time, I’ve been running commands using yt-dlp over and over again for my own purposes, aside from this censorship. The syntax is relatively easy to forget despite being very clearly defined, so I finally made a script to handle it for me.
It’s in Lua because that’s what I prefer to use, and available on GitHub. Because it is based on yt-dlp, it works for any website supported by yt-dlp. Here’s how to use it:
Usage:
./video-dl.lua [action] <url>
[action]: What is desired.
video (default): Highest quality video (maximum 720p).
backup, clone, copy: English subtitles (including automatic subtitles), thumbnail, description, highest quality video (maximum 720p).
music, audio: Highest quality audio only.
metadata, meta: English subtitles (including automatic subtitles), thumbnail, description.
<url>: Source. YouTube URL expected, but should work with anything yt-dlp works with.Information wants to be free. Help it.