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Use yt-dlp to download your videos from Funimation! (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/piracy@lemmy.ml
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As Funimation drama unravels, here's a reminder for you that yt-dlp is able to download Funimation videos. Use that opportunity to preserve your collections before they're gone! (and keep them forever and ever)

Credits to humble jbk@discuss.tchncs.de who brought that up!

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[–] 53 points 2 years ago (1 child)

yt-dlp is amazing, it's just magical and works everywhere!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's great, but I wish there was a GUI front-end for it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Does it need one? This tool is dead simple

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah for doing batch stuff. I’d like to be able to say copy and paste 15 different playlists, deselect some of the videos in them, and be able to walk away from my computer.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)
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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    That is not easier or quicker than shift selecting 70 videos in a list in a list and ctrl clicking the 6 I don't want.

    There's a reason GUIs won out over CLIs for most use cases.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There’s a reason GUIs won out over CLIs for most use cases.

    (I shouldn't take the bait...) ah, and what do you think that is?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because they are simpler and easier.

    Take for example a photo of folders, you can easily parse through a grid of photos to find the picture you're looking.

    CLI are great for some things, and they're not great for others.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Photos... as in exploring content that is not text based? ... I knew it was bait.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What did you expect me to say GUIs are better at the thing CLI at better at?

    The whole point is the graphical side of it, so of course I’m going to choose something visual.

    It’s not bait just because I don’t answer a question in a way that lets you act like a smug Linux nerd.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    If you’re copy pasting playlists using plain text files (one url per line) you can download every url in a single file by running yt-dlp -a <filename>. If you have multiple files, it’s straightforward to write a shell script that calls it for each of them.

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    • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    all front ends for yt-dlp

    https://tartube.sourceforge.io/ https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader https://www.arrow-dl.com

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    • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Your URL just links to an image of Funimation. Was this meant to link to something else like a tutorial?

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    • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What drama?

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sony owns both Crunchyroll and Funimation. Sony is consolidating Funimation into Crunchyroll, but they are not preserving people's digital collections. People are losing access to the digital collections they purchased on Funimation even though Sony isn't going out of business.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is crunchyroll in eu? Cause they are required to maintain the library, I’m sure

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not a lawyer but it seems in lot of EU cases companies, e.g Apple or Facebook, go with 2 versions, i.e one for EU customers and one (usually the bad one) for others. I'd bet in the case either they pay the fine or make 2 versions.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It would be weird to do so I think. Crunchyroll doesn’t even allow to buy anime so I think they will allow people to download the ones they own on fun

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    they dont want people to own anything they want them to rent forever

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Thankfully we have the EU to stand up to these companies. Shame my country left it and we have Tories desperately trying to implement the dystopia of American corporate scamming that appears to be consumer culture in most developed countries on the other side of the world.

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