OT: How to install apps from GitHub

[TS-12]

You can be a genius too!
Just rtfm

I'm still reading and watching videos.
trying to figure out how to actually run the command to download a YouTube video still..

[BertKoor]

well, this here works:

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yt-dlp 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ' -o ripped    

Maybe the big secret is to put quotes around the url. Otherwise the question mark within the url will be attempted to be interpreted by the command line parser. It tries to match a file name where '?' means one single (any) character, hence the cryptic error message "no matches found".

It writes to a .webm file, but you can see there's a temp .mp4 file created first.
If you add '-k' to the arguments (as the program hints itself) then that temp file is not deleted, so you get the .mp4 as well.

[uOpt]

The `git checkout` beginning procedure is for when you want to build the thing from source. While this is the case for most projects on there it isn't for end users.

Instructions for end users must be gathered by the README.

[TS-12]

You guys provided more help and knowledge than all the videos and tutorials I read for the past few weeks.

the only thing I got left to do is to install the ffmpeg

[uOpt]

You guys provided more help and knowledge than all the videos and tutorials I read for the past few weeks.

the only thing I got left to do is to install the ffmpeg

ffmpeg is very much worth the learning effort. Really universal media tool.

[BertKoor]

the only thing I got left to do is to install the ffmpeg

According to https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ffmpeg that's simply

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brew install ffmpeg

(which is another deep rabbit hole to get usable results from, and I suspect know that yt-dlp already uses ffmpeg under the hood for format conversions and other ultilitary tasks)

[TS-12]

ok so I'm stuck again, yt-dlp cant download because ffmpeg is missing.
I tried installing ffmpeg thru Homebrew but keep getting SHA256 error,
deleted ffmpeg install files manually few times, reinstalled homebrew, and still getting this error.

Error: ffmpeg: SHA256 mismatch
Expected: cc24fae87d3af05af3a5ab57041cabc4fb4dc93a6d575d69dd23831fe0856204
Actual: 65c8b7299ea44494dbfb6056799e1a3dd5741d158f7d5e0ee896c0171e1502b8
File: Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/67c76d5bd2c4b744054875676a109c8f1cc7980f9f63eaeeb0bcecaab845b5fc--x265_git-b354c009a60bcd6d7fc04014e200a1ee9c45c167.diff
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.

[whyterabbyt]

at this point I'd suggest 'have you tried 4K Video Downloader?'

[uOpt]

ok so I'm stuck again, yt-dlp cant download because ffmpeg is missing.
I tried installing ffmpeg thru Homebrew but keep getting SHA256 error,
deleted ffmpeg install files manually few times, reinstalled homebrew, and still getting this error.

Error: ffmpeg: SHA256 mismatch
Expected: cc24fae87d3af05af3a5ab57041cabc4fb4dc93a6d575d69dd23831fe0856204
Actual: 65c8b7299ea44494dbfb6056799e1a3dd5741d158f7d5e0ee896c0171e1502b8
File: Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/67c76d5bd2c4b744054875676a109c8f1cc7980f9f63eaeeb0bcecaab845b5fc--x265_git-b354c009a60bcd6d7fc04014e200a1ee9c45c167.diff
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.

Do what it says. Nuke that file, try again.

Although... why is there a diff file. This points to a source code install. Can you post your complete commandline and the whole response?

[audiojunkie]

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#installation

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases

This is it, here. There is no need to compile. The binaries are here. If you are not seeing all of them, click the link that says, "Show all 18 assets".

The initial screenshot shows that the OP is using a Mac. The MacOS binaries for the program are already done. Just download it.

EDIT: Never mind me. It looks like you have moved beyond this point in the puzzle.

[TS-12]

ok so I'm stuck again, yt-dlp cant download because ffmpeg is missing.
I tried installing ffmpeg thru Homebrew but keep getting SHA256 error,
deleted ffmpeg install files manually few times, reinstalled homebrew, and still getting this error.

Error: ffmpeg: SHA256 mismatch
Expected: cc24fae87d3af05af3a5ab57041cabc4fb4dc93a6d575d69dd23831fe0856204
Actual: 65c8b7299ea44494dbfb6056799e1a3dd5741d158f7d5e0ee896c0171e1502b8
File: Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/67c76d5bd2c4b744054875676a109c8f1cc7980f9f63eaeeb0bcecaab845b5fc--x265_git-b354c009a60bcd6d7fc04014e200a1ee9c45c167.diff
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.

Do what it says. Nuke that file, try again.

Although... why is there a diff file. This points to a source code install. Can you post your complete commandline and the whole response?

I keep deleting the file, but when ffmpeg is getting downloaded thru homebrew it creates that file again.

[hma]

https://clipgrab.org ? It`s using yt-dlp and is free.