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Subject: Re: Package request: ytdl-org/youtube-dl
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From: Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 01:09:58 PM EST, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote: 
>On 2024-01-02 03:26, Oskar Skog via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 2024-01-02 08:40, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Good morning!
>>> I'd like to request https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl as a Cygwin
>>> package, so we can mirror training videos locally.
>>> Also, it is a cool demo to show the power of Cygwin, to show that it
>>> can download youtube videos without paying for "Youtube Premium" =:-)>

>> I think yt-dlp might be better.  I had to switch to it a while ago when 
>> youtube-dl took too long to fix an issue with downloading from Youtube.
>> You also don't need to package it, you should be able to install it with pip.
>> python3 -m ensurepip
>> pip3 install yt-dlp

>Cygwin ensurepip fails as it is bundled in python39 but install yt_dlp works. 
>Got a command line test script?

Assuming ffmpeg and lame are installed for Cygwin, then I use this to DL songs from youtube:

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --ffmpeg-location /usr/bin  $*


Where $* is the youtube link.

Can confirm that it does work.

Kevin

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