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Originally Posted by GBDesk
Version 2018.06.14 has been released. I've just DL'd last night's 4Corners with no problems. Ditto Episode 4 of City&TheCity.
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Woo Hoo - the latest release works a treat for me - I just grabbed a few different things - all worked, no encryption. Hats off to the ytdl guys!
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Originally Posted by GBDesk
The trick for getting URLs of individual videos is to click on the down arrow beside an episode then click on "Share". That will copy the link which can then be pasted into youtube-dl.
But, the new site makes a mess of apps which try to pull the URL from the page address. That no longer works as each page is just a holder for all the episodes.
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Yes, discovered this from playing around with the new page - but thanks for the heads up - if you are grabbing a weekly program, I grab the first url, and you'll notice that only two numbers of the url change to identify the episode number from week to week - I wont mention too much since big brother is watching, but anyone with 5 minutes and half a brain can grab a few links from the same show and they will quickly see what I'm talking about.
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Originally Posted by GBDesk
Be kind to the YTDL people – they have responded very quickly and precisely to the iView change [maybe they saw how many Oz users love their ABC iView !].
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Of course, these guys are my heroes - since they have given me a way of grabbing iView stuff to keep - and even though 1024x576 is still not the best possible resolution, it's a lot better than what we had previously which was around 360p.
Using a rather long command string I found on another site, I am able to get the show's metadata, a thumbnail and the .vtt subtitles (which alas don't convert into proper .srt using the "--convert-subs srt" but its relatively easy to find a converter which will number each line to make it .srt compliant. I also convert the .mp4 into a .mkv for ease of use in the future. Though it definitely needs a remux to make into a proper .mkv because the source video is downloaded in individual chunks - but that's another issue entirely, one that I already understand, and not specifically relevant to this current discussion.
I get that driving ytdl from a command prompt might be a little complicated for some people, but until someone creates a Windows front end with the ability to turn on/off each option, enabling the various options on the command line is a reliable way to get consistent results week to week - of course, if you don't want subtitles, metadata, thumbnails and conversion to mkv, the command line gets much simplier ;-P
Thanks to GBDesk, pcspeak and yagasill for responding so quickly - and for all the others contributing to this thread.
Cheers, dman