I am not one to fear the terminal, but do people actually use this to browse YT? What does this workflow look like? Searching video URLs, manually copying them into this cli, and then opening the downloaded file?
Check out MeTube. It is just a wrapper for ytp-dl. You can set extention in a way that only icon needs to be clicked. Everything is automated. No need to do anything in CLI.
I use it for grabbing low quality music and ‘subscribing’ to various channels (checks and downloads new videos every 10m) in order to avoid having to give the algorithm my eyeballs.
If you just want to scroll, something like FreeTube would do what you want. It blocks ads and has sponsorblock built-in. You can subscribe to videos via the app (which is all stored locally, not in any account, you don’t have to log-in.)
$ yt-dlp <URL>
I am not one to fear the terminal, but do people actually use this to browse YT? What does this workflow look like? Searching video URLs, manually copying them into this cli, and then opening the downloaded file?
Check out MeTube. It is just a wrapper for ytp-dl. You can set extention in a way that only icon needs to be clicked. Everything is automated. No need to do anything in CLI.
No, it isn’t useful to browse.
I use it for grabbing low quality music and ‘subscribing’ to various channels (checks and downloads new videos every 10m) in order to avoid having to give the algorithm my eyeballs.
If you just want to scroll, something like FreeTube would do what you want. It blocks ads and has sponsorblock built-in. You can subscribe to videos via the app (which is all stored locally, not in any account, you don’t have to log-in.)