It also handles a lot of other streaming video besides youtube, too. So far every video URL that I have fed it has worked. It can even take a youtube playlist page for an input and it will download every video in that list. Can set this up with other options that remember what has previously been downloaded to automatically archive entire channels.
Biggest issue I run into is with twitter videos; it tries to name the output file with the full text of the tweet, which often is too long for the filesystem. Have to use the -o option and specify the output file name. Oh no! Woe is me!
It also handles a lot of other streaming video besides youtube, too. So far every video URL that I have fed it has worked. It can even take a youtube playlist page for an input and it will download every video in that list. Can set this up with other options that remember what has previously been downloaded to automatically archive entire channels.
Biggest issue I run into is with twitter videos; it tries to name the output file with the full text of the tweet, which often is too long for the filesystem. Have to use the -o option and specify the output file name. Oh no! Woe is me!