Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin (I guess they
call them extensions now) for FireFox that doesn't want everything you
own?

I mean.. a quick search for a downloader plugin produces several popular
ones come highly "Recommended".

But some of those announce that they need access to all your browser
history, mail contacts, cookies, etc.

Isn't there a good one that just gets the download done and leaves you
alone?


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Re: YT downloader - suggestions?
By: August Abolins to All on Tue Apr 28 2020 22:59:00

Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin (I guess
they call them extensions now) for FireFox that doesn't want
everything you own?

no... why when there are tools like youtube-dl and similar that are available standalone?


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August Abolins wrote to All <=-

Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin (I guess
they call them extensions now) for FireFox that doesn't want everything you own?

I mean.. a quick search for a downloader plugin produces several
popular ones come highly "Recommended".

But some of those announce that they need access to all your browser history, mail contacts, cookies, etc.

Isn't there a good one that just gets the download done and leaves you alone?

I don't use plugins, but a commandline tool called youtube-dl

On my tablet I use newpipe

On the PC I use youtube browser for smplayer

I stay away from youtube on the browser.


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Re: YT downloader - suggestions?
By: August Abolins to All on Tue Apr 28 2020 10:59 pm

Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin (I guess they call them extensions now) for FireFox that doesn't want everything you
own?

I mean.. a quick search for a downloader plugin produces several popular ones come highly "Recommended".

But some of those announce that they need access to all your browser history, mail contacts, cookies, etc.

Isn't there a good one that just gets the download done and leaves you alone?

I use 4K Video Downloader. It's a GUI app, not a plugin. Works great.

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On 29/04/2020 11:39 p.m., Rob Swindell : August Abolins wrote:

Isn't there a good one that just gets the download done and leaves you alone?

I use 4K Video Downloader. It's a GUI app, not a plugin. Works great.

I like that one very much, so far. Thanks!




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On 29/04/2020 9:34 a.m., mark lewis : August Abolins wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin (I
guess they call them extensions now) for FireFox that doesn't
want everything you own?

no... why when there are tools like youtube-dl and similar that
are available standalone?

I am impressed with the landing page https://youtube-dl.org/, and the Documentation/user-help page. Very good description of usage with some examples.

I'm not particularly excited in operating in command-mode while I'm residing in a GUI like the YT page, but program looks like a good no nonsense no tracking no
ads experience.

Thanks for the heads-up on that one.



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** On Thursday 30.04.20 - 19:59, August Abolins wrote to mark lewis:

On 29/04/2020 9:34 a.m., mark lewis : August Abolins wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good YouTube video dowloader plugin..

no... why when there are tools like youtube-dl and similar that
are available standalone?

Thanks for the heads-up on that one.

youtube-dl works really well on my XP pc.

BTW.. The -F option is very handy, but it doesn't seem to report the
actual filesize of the available files. :(



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Re: YT downloader - suggestions?
By: August Abolins to mark lewis on Sun May 03 2020 12:20:00

youtube-dl works really well on my XP pc.

excellent!

BTW.. The -F option is very handy, but it doesn't seem to report
the actual filesize of the available files. :(

i don't know... most of what i've done has been simply ripping to mp3 and not very much of that... it was one of the only tools i found to do this when i needed to recover some stuff that i had published on an account i've misplaced the credentials for...


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Hello mark!

** On Sunday 03.05.20 - 12:31, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:

BTW.. The -F option is very handy, but it doesn't seem to report
the actual filesize of the available files. :(

i don't know... most of what i've done has been simply ripping to mp3 and
not very much of that...

Were you getting anything better than 128Kbps in quality?

Prior to joining Spotify, I extracted the audio from the YT videos I was interested in carrying around with me or for producing an mp3/cd for the
car. The audio sound always seemed subpar.

it was one of the only tools i found to do this
when i needed to recover some stuff that i had published on an account
i've misplaced the credentials for...

The variety of --options for youtube-dl are absolutely amazing and well thought out. I can see the convenience of pulling in a playlist based on date criteria to get get just the videos one has missed, for example.


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Re: YT downloader - suggestions?
By: August Abolins to mark lewis on Sun May 03 2020 13:06:00

BTW.. The -F option is very handy, but it doesn't seem to report
the actual filesize of the available files. :(

i don't know... most of what i've done has been simply ripping to
mp3 and not very much of that...

Were you getting anything better than 128Kbps in quality?

yeah, i believe so... i forget the option i used but i found it after several attempts...


BTW: can you adjust your quoting thing so that there's a space after the initials and greater than sign? see above, where the quoted text is flush up against the symbol... i've been manually adding the spaces but it is getting a bit meh...


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On Sunday 03/05/2020 2:13 p.m., mark lewis : August Abolins wrote:

BTW: can you adjust your quoting thing so that there's a space
after the initials and greater than sign? see above, where the
quoted text is flush up against the symbol... i've been manually
adding the spaces but it is getting a bit meh...

Hmmm.. The missing space does seem unusual. I'll have to take another
look at the original when I get back to my openxp system.

Meanwhile.. Maybe you can use the tool referenced in my sig line. It does an amazing job "cleaning up" scattered quoted lines. It does the nice indentations
and extra .gt. signs where necessary.


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Re: can you adjust your quoting thing
By: August Abolins to mark lewis on Sun May 03 2020 22:39:59

BTW: can you adjust your quoting thing so that there's a space
after the initials and greater than sign? see above, where the
quoted text is flush up against the symbol... i've been manually
adding the spaces but it is getting a bit meh...

Hmmm.. The missing space does seem unusual. I'll have to take another
look at the original when I get back to my openxp system.

in software that allows one to define the quote format, it is generally caused by forgetting the trailing space...

Meanwhile.. Maybe you can use the tool referenced in my sig line.
It does an amazing job "cleaning up" scattered quoted lines. It
does the nice indentations and extra .gt. signs where necessary.

it cannot work in a linux command line ssh or telnet terminal, though ;)


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Hello mark!

** On Sunday 03.05.20 - 16:00, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:

Hmmm.. The missing space does seem unusual. I'll have to take another
look at the original when I get back to my openxp system.

in software that allows one to define the quote format, it is generally caused by forgetting the trailing space...

I hadn't changed anything for months. I don't know why (or when) the
space disappeared in my replies. The quote function is re-entered now
with a fresh space after the symbol. It looks like this reply is cooperating.

Thanks for the heads-up on the matter.

Meanwhile.. Maybe you can use the tool referenced in my sig line.
It does an amazing job "cleaning up" scattered quoted lines. It
does the nice indentations and extra .gt. signs where necessary.

it cannot work in a linux command line ssh or telnet terminal, though ;)

I thought Linux people could operate auxiliary programs in a VM (like in
the good old OS2-Win days) and copy paste between apps.


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Re: can you adjust your quoting thing
By: August Abolins to August Abolins on Sun May 03 2020 18:01:00

in software that allows one to define the quote format, it is
generally caused by forgetting the trailing space...

I hadn't changed anything for months. I don't know why (or when)
the space disappeared in my replies. The quote function is re-entered
now with a fresh space after the symbol. It looks like this reply is cooperating.

it is :)

Thanks for the heads-up on the matter.

thank you :)

Meanwhile.. Maybe you can use the tool referenced in my sig line.
It does an amazing job "cleaning up" scattered quoted lines. It
does the nice indentations and extra .gt. signs where necessary.

it cannot work in a linux command line ssh or telnet terminal,
though ;)

I thought Linux people could operate auxiliary programs in a VM
(like in the good old OS2-Win days) and copy paste between apps.

we can but why? i'm reading a message; i hit the reply button; i select the lines i want to quote, hit enter, and then i'm in my editor to write my reply... i'm doing this all online to my BBS... why would i want to do all that
copying and pasting back and forth?

if i'm reading using my point setup with golded, same thing... why do all that when i have the tools at hand already? ;)


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Hello mark!

** On Sunday 03.05.20 - 16:00, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:

BTW: can you adjust your quoting thing so that there's a space
after the initials and greater than sign? see above, where the
quoted text is flush up against the symbol... i've been manually
adding the spaces but it is getting a bit meh...

I forgot to mention.. was that SBBS feature that couldn't handle quoting unless there was a space after the .gt. symbol? LOL Or, was it a
problem with the specific editor you were using?



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Hello mark!

** On Sunday 03.05.20 - 20:44, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:

.... i'm reading a message; i hit the reply button; i select
the lines i want to quote, hit enter, and then i'm in my editor to write my reply... i'm doing this all online to my BBS... why would i want to do all that copying and pasting back and forth?

if i'm reading using my point setup with golded, same thing... why do all that when i have the tools at hand already? ;)

I hear ya. I'd love to see similar built-in capability when replying to messages when using Thunderbird. Fidolook for OutlookExpress was
amazing.

OpenXP does a pretty good job with messages that arrive via true FTN. But there are issues with some othernets that I am curently exploring that
arrive via nntp using OpenXP. For those, it looks like Thunderbird will
be the only way to go; I would only use the Reformator/Quoter to retain a Fidostyle quote for a larger section of the message.

But, with the threading capabilities these days, I am considering not
quoting much at all. It is just as easy to hit the necessary "control" to navigate through a thread:

ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
º When reference links available º
º (Maus, Fido): º
º º
º + Go to the next message in the º
º reference link (if any) º
º º
º - Go to the original message in the reference º
º link (as long as it's still in the º
º messagebase). º
º º
º Cursor-Left and Cursor-Right Toggles between º
º messages in the same reference link. º



The more systems would be conscious of using msgids/threading, then
quoting wouldn't be needed much at all.



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