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ydl

ydl - yt downloader

For my own personal use. I use Youtube a lot to listen to music and often I want to dl the songs and listen to them offline in my car, from an USB stick. I dislike youtube downloaders because they are breaking my flow.

So I made this downloader that is running on one of my VMs. It has a chrome extension that lets me just click a button when I like a song, and it will be downloaded and converted to MP3 on my server; then I only need to fetch them from time to time.

instructions:

1. git clone git@github.com:teo-mateo/ydl.git

*you only need the folder chrome-ext.

1. make a small change to a js file. This will implicitly create your profile. The file is chrome-ext/popup.js

   Modify this code:

   //AJAX call
   var x = new XMLHttpRequest();
   x.open('GET', "http://localhost:8080/ydl?who=otheruser&v="+url);

   ----> change the "who" parameter from "otheruser" to however you want to name your user. ----> change the url from localhost to http://bardici.ro:8080/...

   save the file. -Cpt. Obvious

2. install the extension Use Chrome

   Navigate to chrome://extensions/

   Click on "Load unpacked extension"

   Select the /chrome-ext folder

3. my pretty face will show up in your chrome toolbar. click it when you like dat song.

4. use http://bardici.ro:8080 to get your stuff.

5. don't abuse it; don't delete other people's songs. do delete your songs from time to time. the system is being monitored 24/7 by myself, but only when I remember to do that. all suspicious activity will be thoroughly ignored.

6. don't share this with others.

7. don't be mean to puppies.