odyro teaches archiving: youtube-dl edition.
Aug 15, 2015 16:56:12 GMT -5
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Post by odyro on Aug 15, 2015 16:56:12 GMT -5
Quick and simple guide on how to set up youtube-dl, and how to take stuff off of places. I hope I didn't miss a step.
First off, before anything else, keep everything in your Downloads folder. You can have it somewhere else, but for the sake of this tutorial, I'm going to force you to keep it there.
Step 1: Go here
(refresh if it doesn't work the first time!)
And get youtube-dl
i.imgur.com/uFqvDao.png
You click that. It downloads.
Step 2: Get ffmpeg ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
i.imgur.com/QW5y9gr.png
Click either of these two first ones depending on your architecture. 32 bit I recommend.
Your folder should look like this:
i.imgur.com/UKXPnYQ.png
Ignore the touhou and other stuff.
Step 3: Make a folder called youtube-dl.
Step 4: Extract the ffmpeg folder
Step 5: Open the ffmpeg folder, go to bin, and you should see this
i.imgur.com/6rfRQfo.png
Copy all those and put them in the youtube-dl folder. Then put the youtube-dl exe in there too. That is ALL that should be in that folder.
Step 6: Start menu > command prompt. You should see this:
i.imgur.com/bbOhd21.png
Welcome to the command prompt. You will be seeing a lot of this.
Step 7: These commands are important:
If you followed directions correctly, you should be in the youtube-dl directory. You're almost done. This step, btw, is why I wanted you to keep it in the downloads. The syntax here has to be exact. No DOwnloads or downloADS or anything like that. You use cd to change the directory to the "Downloads" directory, and THEN the "youtube-dl" directory. If you wanna move your folder somewhere else, you better know how to cd into it. Or else... Surprise! It won't work!
Step 8: Archive.
Here are the commands to archive something, and a test of it
This will download the video of... well, that. Here is what it should look like
i.imgur.com/zbZSPIl.png
This means it is working.
Here it is in the folder
i.imgur.com/FvlylXt.png
And that should be it! As a reminder
This is all you need to start. The link comes after. Simple enough.
Now as an extra, you can also take music from this. The syntax is
And that should get you a nice .wav of stuff. The -x makes it extract the audio, and the --audio-format lets you choose which format, which I picked wav. It works in all sorts of places aside from youtube. I just used youtube as an example.
That should be it. This is how odyro takes videos off of twitch.
Recording stuff shall be for another time. I probably made something unclear or ambiguous. Hopefully not and it all works from following my instructions.
Also PROTIP:
When doing this:
You don't have to always type it out.
You could do this:
And then press TAB on your keyboard. It should get Downloads all written for you. Then you write a bit of youtube-dl, and press TAB again, and that should auto complete it for you.
First off, before anything else, keep everything in your Downloads folder. You can have it somewhere else, but for the sake of this tutorial, I'm going to force you to keep it there.
Step 1: Go here
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
(refresh if it doesn't work the first time!)
And get youtube-dl
i.imgur.com/uFqvDao.png
You click that. It downloads.
Step 2: Get ffmpeg ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
i.imgur.com/QW5y9gr.png
Click either of these two first ones depending on your architecture. 32 bit I recommend.
Your folder should look like this:
i.imgur.com/UKXPnYQ.png
Ignore the touhou and other stuff.
Step 3: Make a folder called youtube-dl.
Step 4: Extract the ffmpeg folder
Step 5: Open the ffmpeg folder, go to bin, and you should see this
i.imgur.com/6rfRQfo.png
Copy all those and put them in the youtube-dl folder. Then put the youtube-dl exe in there too. That is ALL that should be in that folder.
Step 6: Start menu > command prompt. You should see this:
i.imgur.com/bbOhd21.png
Welcome to the command prompt. You will be seeing a lot of this.
Step 7: These commands are important:
cd Downloads\youtube-dl
If you followed directions correctly, you should be in the youtube-dl directory. You're almost done. This step, btw, is why I wanted you to keep it in the downloads. The syntax here has to be exact. No DOwnloads or downloADS or anything like that. You use cd to change the directory to the "Downloads" directory, and THEN the "youtube-dl" directory. If you wanna move your folder somewhere else, you better know how to cd into it. Or else... Surprise! It won't work!
Step 8: Archive.
Here are the commands to archive something, and a test of it
youtube-dl.exe -k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JGfBINy5Uo
This will download the video of... well, that. Here is what it should look like
i.imgur.com/zbZSPIl.png
This means it is working.
Here it is in the folder
i.imgur.com/FvlylXt.png
And that should be it! As a reminder
youtube-dl.exe -k
This is all you need to start. The link comes after. Simple enough.
Now as an extra, you can also take music from this. The syntax is
youtube-dl.exe -x --audio-format wav https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JGfBINy5Uo
And that should get you a nice .wav of stuff. The -x makes it extract the audio, and the --audio-format lets you choose which format, which I picked wav. It works in all sorts of places aside from youtube. I just used youtube as an example.
That should be it. This is how odyro takes videos off of twitch.
Recording stuff shall be for another time. I probably made something unclear or ambiguous. Hopefully not and it all works from following my instructions.
Also PROTIP:
When doing this:
cd Downloads\youtube-dl
You don't have to always type it out.
You could do this:
cd Down
And then press TAB on your keyboard. It should get Downloads all written for you. Then you write a bit of youtube-dl, and press TAB again, and that should auto complete it for you.