On Windows 11, is it superior to use the command line interface (e.g., terminal) for interacting with yt-dlp? Or is a GUI like stacher.io sufficient for 99% of needs?

I’m also curious if it is better to use an Ubuntu WSL for yt-dlp CLI for a more streamlined terminal

  • Dr. Taco@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Maybe if you want to customize something, like make your own file naming convention, etc, GUI could be handy.

    Even then, it’s probably worth learning the CLI commands and setting up a config file with any desired settings. Once that’s setup, you’re back to yt-dlp url again.

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        1 hour ago

        windows terminal is inferior

        Note that there is an application called Windows Terminal and that’s a terminal, not a shell. You can run any shell in it (including alternative or WSL shells).

        I primarily use native Nushell via Windows Terminal.

        You’re not stuck with PowerShell or batch on Windows.

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          26 minutes ago

          Until you pointed this out I never realized that windows terminal and command prompt are entirely different applications lol

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        I use PowerShell for damn near everything. But I’m pretty sure when you’re just typing yt-dlp, space, then pasting the url, then any terminal is as good as any other.

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          good point, i did not know that you could change the configuration file instead of adding all the -cookies and -mp3 tags to the yt-dlp url … command