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Which CLI app/utility you wish there was a GUI for? (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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For me it's: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

yt-dlp. Too many options to remember and look up every time, but all useful and missing from GUIs when you just want to dowload audio or 'good enough' quality video in batches without re-encoding.

While nmtui is perfectly fine for the CLI-uninitiated, I sometimes wonder why the nm-connection-editor window doesn't provide the same level of functionality.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Too many options to remember and look up every time

    This is a good use case for shell aliases. If you can identify a few of your use cases, you can give each bundle of options its own command.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I do exactly this for downloading music, I aliased my preferred options to 'yt-audio'

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    There’s a firefox extension that generates the cli command for whatever video you’re on. Let’s you check boxes for the format, sponsorblock, etc and then copies it to your clipboard.

    Just search the addon store for yt-dlp and it should show up

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can have most of the settings pre-loaded in its config file. I mostly let it do my preset -f, or when that fails do a -F to see what encodings are available.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Btw, here's my config file.

    -o "%(title)s (%(uploader_id)s).%(ext)s"
 
-P ~/Videos

-P "temp:/tmp/yt-dlp/"

-f 271+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/308+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/137+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/299+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/231+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/http_mp3_128/271+140/308+140/137+140/299+140/231+140
--download-archive ~/.config/yt-dlp/dl-archive
--no-playlist
--write-sub
--no-mtime
--compat-options no-live-chat
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I believe ytDownloader might be what you're looking for. It's a yt-dlp frontend, you can export to video/audio pretty easily. And it's in active development. I've used it to export short clips to WAV a few times, nothing too fancy, but so far it works pretty well.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    (Windows only warning, unless someone wants to add Linux support)

    I didn't really search around for GUIs way back, but ended up making a basic GUI because I wanted to learn programming.

    https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5ecb6cdfb3710e359894b65e42b79c7ab7dd8de55a14cdf34f0f0f37d48c7d04/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f346a46776846652e706e67

    With just having options as checkboxes for YouTube-dl. It has served me well all these years. It was literally the thing I made while learning programming so the code is pretty janky when I look back at it though...

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