On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:38:02 +1200, Roderick Aldridge wrote:
Anybody got good tips for this, particularly good sources (as well as Youtube) of free videos on all subjects, not just news, movies and technical subjects.
The most powerful and versatile downloader I know of is youtube-dl <https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl>. It covers a huge range of sites, and is updated very quickly when something changes on a site. It’s written in Python. Every time I try to download something and hit an error, usually I just need to do a git-fetch and it’s working again. :) Probably it can be kept so up-to-date because it’s a command-line tool, not a GUI tool. It has options for batch downloads and format choices (it defaults to the highest-quality format available on the site). It can download entire playlists and has other smarts for parsing pages. For example, I just pointed it to this page <http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/the-caliph-islamic-history/index.html> and it downloaded all three parts of the doco.