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youtube_dl Program for downloading videos from various services

2023.03.14_1 www =16 2023.03.14_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.

DEPRECATED: Many extractors are brokena and upstream can't keep up, consider using www/yt-dlp

This port expired on: 2024-03-31

Maintainer: multimedia@FreeBSD.org

Port Added: 2006-08-16 12:54:18

Last Update: 2024-04-01 11:27:33

Commit Hash: 336dff9

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License: UNLICENSE

WWW:

https://yt-dl.org/

Description:

youtube-dl is a small command-line program for downloading videos from YouTube.com, metacafe.com, google video, photobucket videos, yahoo videos, dailymotion and others

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Manual pages:

youtube-dl(1)

pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist

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bin/youtube-dl
etc/bash_completion.d/youtube-dl.sh
share/man/man1/youtube-dl.1.gz
share/fish/vendor_completions.d/youtube-dl.fish
share/zsh/site-functions/_youtube-dl
/usr/local/share/licenses/youtube_dl-2023.03.14_1/catalog.mk
/usr/local/share/licenses/youtube_dl-2023.03.14_1/LICENSE
/usr/local/share/licenses/youtube_dl-2023.03.14_1/UNLICENSE

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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)

no SUBR information found for this port

Dependency lines:

youtube_dl>0:www/youtube_dl

No installation instructions:

This port has been deleted.

PKGNAME: youtube_dl

Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.

distinfo:

TIMESTAMP = 1679299345 SHA256 (ytdl-org-youtube-dl-2023.03.14-6fece0a_GH0.tar.gz) = e6a57710bde2e7d137f28a6e829834281f2f0470675f99dcb9182088533aaa46 SIZE (ytdl-org-youtube-dl-2023.03.14-6fece0a_GH0.tar.gz) = 1638794

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):

youtube_dl
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FreeBSD:13:latest	-	-	2021.01.16	-	-	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly	-	-	-	-	-	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:14:latest	-	-	2021.12.17	-	-	-	-	-
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FreeBSD:15:quarterly	-	-	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-
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Dependencies

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Build dependencies:

pandoc : textproc/hs-pandoc
gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
python3.9 : lang/python39

Test dependencies:

python3.9 : lang/python39

Runtime dependencies:

rtmpdump : multimedia/rtmpdump
python3.9 : lang/python39

There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:

===> The following configuration options are available for youtube_dl-2023.03.14_1: FFMPEG=off: FFmpeg support (WMA, AIFF, AC3, APE...) RTMPDUMP=on: Use rtmpdump to download rtmp video streams ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings

Options name:

www_youtube_dl

USES:

gmake python

pkg-message:

For install:: If you want to use mp3 audio conversion please make sure multimedia/ffmpeg is built with the "LAME" option enabled.

Master Sites:

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https://codeload.github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tar.gz/6fece0a?dummy=/

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Port Moves

port moved to www/yt-dlp on 2024-04-01
REASON: Has expired: Many extractors are brokena and upstream can't keep up, consider using www/yt-dlp

Number of commits found: 221 (showing only 21 on this page)

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Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
2008.03.22 26 Mar 2008 13:04:05	rafan	- Update to 2008.03.22 PR: ports/122111 Submitted by: Pankov Pavel <pankov_p at mail.ru> (maintainer)
2008.03.08 13 Mar 2008 20:57:18	miwi	- Update to 2008.03.08 PR: 121593 Submitted by: Pankov Pavel <pankov_p@mail.ru> (maintainer)
2008.01.24_1 13 Feb 2008 10:57:54	araujo	- Fixed some problems with conv2avi. - Bump PORTREVISION. PR: ports/120301 Submitted by: Mel <mel@rachie.is-a-geek.net>, Pankov Pavel <pankov_p@mail.ru> (maintainer) Approved by: stas (mentor, implicit)
2008.01.24 04 Feb 2008 10:24:47	obrien	Fix line endings - I'm not sure how the maintainer senting method got this all wrong.
2008.01.24 04 Feb 2008 10:22:13	obrien	Fix 'WITH_FLV2MPEG4' logic.
2008.01.24 04 Feb 2008 10:08:39	obrien	+ Updates www/youtube_dl to 2008.01.24 [1][2] + Adds an ability to use multimedia/flv2mpeg4 for conversion [3] Submitted by: Pankov Pavel <pankov_p@mail.ru> PR: 119990, 120005, 117053
2007.10.09 09 Oct 2007 11:36:05	miwi	- Update to 2007.10.09 PR: 117037 Submitted by: maintainer
2007.08.24 29 Aug 2007 13:57:38	sem	- Update to 2007.08.24 PR: ports/115834 Submitted by: glebius Approved by: maintainer
2007.06.22 04 Aug 2007 11:41:31	gabor	- Remove the DESTDIR modifications from individual ports as we have a new, fully chrooted DESTDIR, which does not need such any more. Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007 Approved by: portmgr (pav)
2007.06.22 25 Jun 2007 13:09:01	rafan	- Update to 2007.06.22 PR: ports/114010 Submitted by: Pankov Pavel <pankov_p at mail.ru> (maintainer)
2007.06.06 11 Jun 2007 14:42:07	rafan	- Update to 2007.06.06 PR: ports/113537 Submitted by: Pankov Pavel <pankov_p at mail.ru> (maintainer)
2007.03.27 28 Mar 2007 20:44:14	miwi	- Update to 2007.03.27 PR: 110978 Submitted by: Pankov Pavel <pankov_p@mail.ru> (maintainer)
2007.02.18 20 Feb 2007 00:58:13	vanilla	Upgrade to 2007.02.18 PR: ports/109338 Submitted by: maintainer
2007.01.19 23 Jan 2007 08:12:49	miwi	- Update to 2007.01.09 [1] - Add an options to recode the movie in avi PR: ports/107890 Submitted by: Sergio Lenzi <lenzi@k1.com.br> Pankov Pavel <pankov_p@mail.ru> [1] (maintainer)
2007.01.01 03 Jan 2007 01:26:40	rafan	- Update to 2007.01.01 PR: ports/107428 Submitted by: Pankov Pavel <pankov_p at mail.ru> (maintainer)
2006.12.03 04 Dec 2006 22:55:19	miwi	- Update to 2006.12.03 PR: ports/106299 Submitted by: Pankov Pavel<pankov_p@mail.ru> (maintainer)
2006.11.12 02 Dec 2006 00:29:39	miwi	- Update to 2006.11.12 PR: ports/106083 Submitted by: Pankov Pavel<pankov_p@mail.ru> (Maintainer)
2006.10.30 04 Nov 2006 22:31:46	miwi	- Update to 2006.10.30 Submitted by: Pawel Worach (on irc) Sponsored by: FreeBSD Bug-a-thon #2
2006.09.25 04 Nov 2006 22:03:18	miwi	- Update to 2006.09.25 PR: ports/104939 Submitted by: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@> Sponsored by: FreeBSD Bug-a-thon #2
2006.08.28 05 Sep 2006 17:32:56	miwi	- Update to 2006.08.28 PR: ports/102818 Submitted by: Pankov Pavel <pankov_p(at)mail.ru> (maintainer)
2006.08.13 16 Aug 2006 12:51:40	itetcu	youtube-dl is a small command-line program for downloading videos from YouTube.com. WWW: http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ PR: ports/101912 Submitted by: Pankov Pavel <pankov_p at mail.ru>

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