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How to hide the bar at the top of “youtube” even when mouse hovers over it?

January 30, 2023 by Tarik

This answer no longer works as YouTube has deprecated the showinfo parameter. You can hide the embedded player’s title bar by adding &showinfo=0. You cannot completely remove all the links to the original video. Here is the best you can do <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoid?modestbranding=1&autohide=1&showinfo=0&controls=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> This code will remove the title bar, YouTube … Read more

How to extract closed caption transcript from YouTube video?

January 26, 2023 by Tarik

Here’s how to get the transcript of a YouTube video (when available): Go to YouTube and open the video of your choice. Click on the “More actions” button (3 horizontal dots) located next to the Share button. Click “Open transcript” Although the syntax may be a little goofy this is a pretty good solution. Source: … Read more

How do you use youtube-dl to download live streams (that are live)?

January 16, 2023 by Tarik

I’ll be using this Live Event from NASA TV as an example: First, list the formats for the video: youtube-dl –list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=21X5lGlDOfg [youtube] 21X5lGlDOfg: Downloading webpage [youtube] 21X5lGlDOfg: Downloading m3u8 information [youtube] 21X5lGlDOfg: Downloading MPD manifest [info] Available formats for 21X5lGlDOfg: format code extension resolution note 91 mp4 256×144 HLS 197k , avc1.42c00b, 30.0fps, mp4a.40.5@ … Read more

Shrink a YouTube video to responsive width

December 3, 2022 by Tarik

You can make YouTube videos responsive with CSS. Wrap the iframe in a div with the class of “videowrapper” and apply the following styles: .videowrapper { float: none; clear: both; width: 100%; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0; } .videowrapper iframe { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } … Read more

How can I get a channel ID from YouTube?

December 3, 2022 by Tarik

To obtain the channel id you can view the source code of the channel page and find either data-channel-external-id=”UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg” or “externalId”:”UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg”. UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg will be the channel ID you are looking for.

ffprobe or avprobe not found. Please install one

November 17, 2022 by Tarik

Make sure you have the last version for youtube-dl sudo youtube-dl -U after that you can solve this problem by installing the missing ffmpeg on ubuntu and debian: sudo apt-get install ffmpeg and macOS use the command: brew install ffmpeg

How to customize an end time for a YouTube video?

November 15, 2022 by Tarik

I just found out that the following works: https://youtube.com/watch?v=%5Bvideo_id%5D%3Fstart%3D%5Bstart_at_second%5D%26end%3D%5Bend_at_second%5D Note: the time must be an integer number of seconds (e.g. 119, not 1m59s).

Youtube – downloading a playlist – youtube-dl

October 19, 2022 by Tarik

In a shell, & is a special character, advising the shell to start everything up to the & as a process in the background. To avoid this behavior, you can put the URL in quotes. See the youtube-dl FAQ for more information. Also beware of -citk. With the exception of -i, these options make little … Read more

YouTube API to fetch all videos on a channel

October 2, 2022 by Tarik

You need to look at the YouTube Data API. You will find there documentation about how the API can be accessed. You can also find client libraries. You could also make the requests yourself. Here is an example URL that retrieves the latest videos from a channel: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?key={your_key_here}&channelId={channel_id_here}&part=snippet,id&order=date&maxResults=20 After that you will receive a JSON … Read more