DUducktective·Oct 1, 2022Submission
Lux: A fast and simple video downloader built with Go
4 points · Open discussioniawia002
lux
Go2018–2022
iawia002 / lux
lux
👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go
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👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go
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- soimort/you-get · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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Observed mentions: 2018-07-13 07:18:41 UTC to 2022-10-01 19:26:31 UTC.
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesShow HN: A Qt based GUI for many CLI based online media downloaders
This tool works in Windows and Linux and is a GUI front ends to the following CLI tools that deal with online media downloading.
The extension based architecture makes it possible to easily add support for any other CLI tool but it limits itself to tools deals with downloading of online media.
yt-dlp : https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
youtube-dl : https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
gallery-dl : https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl
lux : https://github.com/iawia002/lux
you-get : https://github.com/soimort/you-get
svtplay-dl : https://github.com/spaam/svtplay-dl
aria2c : https://aria2.github.io
wget : https://www.gnu.org/software/wget
safari books : https://github.com/mhogomchungu/safaribooks
2 points · Open discussionAnnie: Simple video download CLI tool like YouTube-dl written in Go
3 points · Open discussionSeems weird to me to frown upon python and then being ok with perl.. but whatever floats your boat! Perhaps check out https://github.com/iawia002/annie which is Go so you can get a static binary.
In YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021Given that (IIRC) part of the RIAA's complaint about youtube-dl was the presence of copyrighted videos in the README, I would give grave consideration to finding a new URL to serve as an example of its abilities
$ annie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Site: YouTube youtube.com
Title: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Video)
It seems there's even an issue for it: https://github.com/iawia002/annie/issues/811 but there doesn't seem to be any comment on whether the project's maintainers agree
In Ask HN: How are you downloading YouTube videos?Still use youtube-dl for now but have heard good things about annie
https://github.com/iawia002/annie
In Ask HN: How are you downloading YouTube videos?As others have pointed out, this is very misleadingly editorialized due to ytdl’s vastly expanded scope. The submission title should be changed to the actual title, “Download Youtube Video in Golang”. (Edit: the title was something like "youtube-dl in golang, actively maintained" when the comment was posted.)
Btw, I should point out there's no shortage of web video downloader projects that support YouTube as well as different, often reduced (compared to ytdl) collections of sites, with different focuses and ergonomics. For instance, two projects I've used/contributed to, both active, YouTube-supporting, and with a focus on Chinese sites:
- https://github.com/soimort/you-get (Python, 8 years old, 35.8k stars)
- https://github.com/iawia002/annie (Golang, 2-3 years old, 12.7k stars)
(Not trying to diminish the project posted; what I'm saying
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is you can find quite a few actively maintained projects with reduced scope if you look around.)
Show HN: Annie – Fast, simple and clean video downloader
3 points · Open discussion