Bridges to existing services, but also extending them for data ownership awesomeness

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But I wasn’t talking about that. First sentence:

Existing closed services have deficiencies, such as:

  • YouTube doesn’t let you save videos
  • Facebook treats your chats as throwaway trash
  • Hangouts isn’t better
  • you can’t save Pinterest boards
  • you can’t save your Instagram
  • and so on

Improving people’s experience about what they are already familiar with may be more attractive than telling them “hey, use our stuff instead.” It also introduces them to SAFE through one of its fundamental ideas: your data is your data.

To be honest, it’s almost exactly the same as this other thread, so idke why I started another one :scream_cat: I must’ve focused on the trivial differences to think it deserved a separate thread.

“Basic” CLI? I would think it works the other way…

youtube-dl \
    --output "%(playlist)s (%(playlist_id)s)/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(upload_date)s.%(uploader_id)s.%(id)s.%(width)sx%(height)s.%(format_id)s.%(ext)s" \
    --write-{sub,description,info-json,annotations,thumbnail,all-thumbnails} --all-sub \
    --cookies 'youtube-cookies.txt' \
    --download-archive 'youtube-archives.txt' \
    --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.39 Safari/537.36' \
    --yes-playlist \
    --merge-output-format mkv --prefer-ffmpeg \
    --embed-subs --add-metadata --xattrs \
    --embed-thumbnail \
    --convert-subtitles srt \
    --no-check-certificate \
    --username catvideosftw --password tabbiesrulez --twofactor `google-auth` \
    --ignore-errors \
    --rate-limit 850K \
:ytwatchlater :ytfavorites
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