teddit VS ytdl-patched

Someone should just convert the Teddit UI into a Lemmy theme.

https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit

Why scrapy if you have teddit? These kinds of projects are the best tbh

Not really everyone's cup of tea but as an interesting aside... I've recently become quite enamoured with the various "alternative frontends" that are floating around, like invidious for youtube or teddit for reddit. These are not just about blocking ads, (although they do that), they also make these platforms less hostile to your mental health.

Teddit is the equivalent of Invidious but just like Invidious you can't log in, it would beat the purpose if you could. Most of that TOS would still apply if you are logged trough an app or front end. tracking you can minimize by opting out and using with uBlock Origin.

The archiving began in earnest when I started limiting my time exlusively to the FTF. Before that I focused more on archiving fanart, fanfiction and mods for a later use I still want to get to at some point. My archives of FTF threads are HTML files downloaded though the teddit frontend(https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit). Though my archive is much bigger than that. To fill in the backlog of posts from before I started archiving manually I used a Python script to scrape the reddit pushshift archive https://github.com/pushshift/api in order to make sure that I grabbed every comment said in any thread created by JustMonika as well her post text though this backlog data is not easily browsable in its current form, its a whole lot of JSON.

Before writing something from scratch, look at a load of open source projects that do parts of what you need, like: https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit. But there are loads more to research.

Teddit.net[0] solves a lot of these problems and paired with Redirector[1], it's a transparent switch out.

https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit

[2]: https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit

For me, the less-complicated client called "DVD" is more reliable for downloading than the client called "Newpipe"; the later stops working intermittently. YMMV.

(Neither are as reliable as using own custom command line programs on desktop, or mobile via Termux. If Google makes a change I can fix/workaround immediately. No waiting for app developers.)

For me, Newpipe works well as a Soundlcoud client.

From the Kotlin source for "dvd":

Video downloader app powered by yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl).

Features

Download video/audio from 1000+ sites supported by yt-dlp.

Run custom yt-dlp commands.

Update yt-dlp version from settings.

Share link via other apps.

References

dvd - https://github.com/yausername/dvd

youtubedl-android - https://github.com/yausername/youtubedl-android

yt-dlp - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)

yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Once downloaded, the video files can be played anywhere, on any device.

If yt-dlp works, you can also use Celluloid to watch videos from Youtube — choose Open Location and enter the YouTube video or playlist page.

=> https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

=> https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/io.github.celluloid_player.Ce...

I'd recommend you to have a look at yt-dlp [0] and NewPipe extractor [1]

[0] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Couldn't you just use the subtitles from youtube directly?

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#subtitle-options

Or are these worse than whisper?

yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

yt-dlp or one of its many GUI frontends.

Give yt-dlp a try: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

The only ads are the ones the creators insert into the videos themselves.

youtube-dl is broken now and barely updated for some byzantine reasons, no?

yt-dlp is supposed to be the new hotness, though I've yet to try it. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/