Use yt-dlp to download your videos from Funimation!
from Allero@lemmy.today to piracy@lemmy.ml on 11 Feb 2024 09:31
https://lemmy.today/post/6364134

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!

#piracy

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sturlabragason@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 2024 10:19 next collapse

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

Deceptichum@kbin.social on 11 Feb 2024 10:40 collapse

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

moreeni@lemm.ee on 11 Feb 2024 10:56 next collapse

Does it need one? This tool is dead simple

Deceptichum@kbin.social on 11 Feb 2024 11:00 next collapse

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.

moreeni@lemm.ee on 11 Feb 2024 11:09 next collapse

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#video…

This thing has lots, lots of options :)

Deceptichum@kbin.social on 11 Feb 2024 11:10 collapse

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.

utopiah@lemmy.ml on 11 Feb 2024 14:13 collapse

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?

Deceptichum@kbin.social on 11 Feb 2024 14:21 collapse

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.

utopiah@lemmy.ml on 11 Feb 2024 18:25 collapse

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

Deceptichum@kbin.social on 11 Feb 2024 21:11 collapse

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.

utopiah@lemmy.ml on 11 Feb 2024 22:53 collapse

smug Linux nerd.

well kudos, first person I block on Lemmy.

Deceptichum@kbin.social on 11 Feb 2024 23:43 collapse

K.

hedgehog@ttrpg.network on 11 Feb 2024 12:06 collapse

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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sneezycat@sopuli.xyz on 11 Feb 2024 11:30 next collapse

Be the change you wanna see in the world!

RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 Feb 2024 12:00 collapse

github.com/dsymbol/yt-dlp-gui

Deceptichum@kbin.social on 11 Feb 2024 12:02 collapse

Ahh awesome! Thank you.

queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 11 Feb 2024 11:14 next collapse

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

DacoTaco@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 2024 11:48 collapse

Link in post links to their github to me. They probably made it an image post to have the funimation image in the post :)

Allero@lemmy.today on 11 Feb 2024 13:13 collapse

Basically that :D

Link in text! Picture is just picture.

beaxingu@kbin.run on 11 Feb 2024 12:37 next collapse

all front ends for yt-dlp

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

Mr_Blott@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 2024 16:52 collapse

Thanks mate, I always feel a bit silly when someone links a GitHub page and I’ve not got a Scooby how to use it lol

nitefox@sh.itjust.works on 11 Feb 2024 13:18 next collapse

What drama?

Tsaot@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 2024 13:25 collapse

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.

nitefox@sh.itjust.works on 11 Feb 2024 13:30 collapse

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

utopiah@lemmy.ml on 11 Feb 2024 14:11 collapse

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.

nitefox@sh.itjust.works on 11 Feb 2024 14:22 collapse

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

Nuerion@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 2024 15:24 collapse

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

9point6@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 2024 15:44 next collapse

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.

nitefox@sh.itjust.works on 11 Feb 2024 16:26 collapse

I agree, but the crunchyroll business model has always been different hasn’t it?

Infamousblt@hexbear.net on 11 Feb 2024 15:29 collapse

I do this for music, have a tiny batch script that I mostly borrowed from some other stack exchange post that I just dump the URL and the name of the file and it converts it to mp3 and dumps it into a folder. I use it to get music to DJ with for small house parties. yt-dlp is great highly recommend it for anyone