youtube-dl - down­load videos from youtube.com or other video plat­forms

To in­stall it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, ma­cOS, etc.), type:

sudo curl -L https://​yt-dl.org/​down­loads/​lat­est/​youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

If you do not have curl, you can al­ter­na­tively use a re­cent wget:

sudo wget https://​yt-dl.org/​down­loads/​lat­est/​youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Windows users can down­load an .exe file and place it in any lo­ca­tion on their PATH ex­cept for %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 (e.g. do not put in C:\Windows\System32).

You can also use pip:

sudo -H pip in­stall –upgrade youtube-dl

This com­mand will up­date youtube-dl if you have al­ready in­stalled it. See the pypi page for more in­for­ma­tion.

brew in­stall youtube-dl

sudo port in­stall youtube-dl

Alternatively, re­fer to the de­vel­oper in­struc­tions for how to check out and work with the git repos­i­tory. For fur­ther op­tions, in­clud­ing PGP sig­na­tures, see the youtube-dl Download Page.

youtube-dl is a com­mand-line pro­gram to down­load videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It re­quires the Python in­ter­preter, ver­sion 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not plat­form spe­cific. It should work on your Unix box, on Windows or on ma­cOS. It is re­leased to the pub­lic do­main, which means you can mod­ify it, re­dis­trib­ute it or use it how­ever you like.

youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL…]

-h, –help Print this help text and exit

–version Print pro­gram ver­sion and exit

-U, –update Update this pro­gram to lat­est ver­sion. Make

sure that you have suf­fi­cient per­mis­sions

(run with sudo if needed)

-i, –ignore-errors Continue on down­load er­rors, for ex­am­ple to

skip un­avail­able videos in a playlist

–abort-on-error Abort down­load­ing of fur­ther videos (in the

playlist or the com­mand line) if an er­ror

oc­curs

–dump-user-agent Display the cur­rent browser iden­ti­fi­ca­tion

–list-extractors List all sup­ported ex­trac­tors

–extractor-descriptions Output de­scrip­tions of all sup­ported

ex­trac­tors

–force-generic-extractor Force ex­trac­tion to use the generic

ex­trac­tor

–default-search PREFIX Use this pre­fix for un­qual­i­fied URLs. For

ex­am­ple “gvsearch2:” down­loads two videos

from google videos for youtube-dl “large

ap­ple”. Use the value “auto” to let

youtube-dl guess (“auto_warning” to emit a

warn­ing when guess­ing). “error” just throws

an er­ror. The de­fault value “fixup_error”

re­pairs bro­ken URLs, but emits an er­ror if

this is not pos­si­ble in­stead of search­ing.

–ignore-config Do not read con­fig­u­ra­tion files. When given

in the global con­fig­u­ra­tion file

/etc/youtube-dl.conf: Do not read the user

con­fig­u­ra­tion in ~/.config/youtube-

dl/​con­fig (%APPDATA%/youtube-dl/config.txt

on Windows)

–config-location PATH Location of the con­fig­u­ra­tion file; ei­ther

the path to the con­fig or its con­tain­ing

di­rec­tory.

–flat-playlist Do not ex­tract the videos of a playlist,

only list them.

–mark-watched Mark videos watched (YouTube only)

–no-mark-watched Do not mark videos watched (YouTube only)

–no-color Do not emit color codes in out­put

–proxy URL Use the spec­i­fied HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.

To en­able SOCKS proxy, spec­ify a proper

scheme. For ex­am­ple

socks5://​127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty

string (–proxy “”) for di­rect con­nec­tion

–socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait be­fore giv­ing up, in sec­onds

–source-address IP Client-side IP ad­dress to bind to

-4, –force-ipv4 Make all con­nec­tions via IPv4

-6, –force-ipv6 Make all con­nec­tions via IPv6

–geo-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to ver­ify the IP ad­dress for

some geo-re­stricted sites. The de­fault

proxy spec­i­fied by –proxy (or none, if the

op­tion is not pre­sent) is used for the

ac­tual down­load­ing.

–geo-bypass Bypass ge­o­graphic re­stric­tion via fak­ing

X-Forwarded-For HTTP header

–no-geo-bypass Do not by­pass ge­o­graphic re­stric­tion via

fak­ing X-Forwarded-For HTTP header

–geo-bypass-country CODE Force by­pass ge­o­graphic re­stric­tion with

ex­plic­itly pro­vided two-let­ter ISO 3166-2

coun­try code

–geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK Force by­pass ge­o­graphic re­stric­tion with

ex­plic­itly pro­vided IP block in CIDR

no­ta­tion

–playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is 1)

–playlist-end NUMBER Playlist video to end at (default is last)

–playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Playlist video items to down­load. Specify

in­dices of the videos in the playlist

sep­a­rated by com­mas like: “–playlist-items

1,2,5,8″ if you want to down­load videos

in­dexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can

spec­ify range: “–playlist-items

1-3,7,10-13″, it will down­load the videos

at in­dex 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.

–match-title REGEX Download only match­ing ti­tles (regex or

case­less sub-string)

–reject-title REGEX Skip down­load for match­ing ti­tles (regex or

case­less sub-string)

–max-downloads NUMBER Abort af­ter down­load­ing NUMBER files

–min-filesize SIZE Do not down­load any videos smaller than

SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)

–max-filesize SIZE Do not down­load any videos larger than SIZE

(e.g. 50k or 44.6m)

–date DATE Download only videos up­loaded in this date

–datebefore DATE Download only videos up­loaded on or be­fore

Zoom shut down a se­ries of events meant to dis­cuss what or­ga­niz­ers called “censorship” by the com­pany.

The events were planned for Oct. 23, and were or­ga­nized in re­sponse to a pre­vi­ous can­cel­la­tion by Zoom of a San Francisco State University talk by Leila Khalid, a mem­ber of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a des­ig­nated ter­ror or­ga­ni­za­tion in the US. Khalid is best known for high­jack­ing two planes, one in 1969 and one in 1970.

Zoom told the Verge at the time that the Sept. 23 talk was in vi­o­la­tion of the com­pa­ny’s terms of ser­vice. The Verge also re­ported that the ac­tion was in re­sponse to pres­sure by Jewish and Israel lobby groups, such as The Lawfare pro­ject.

Following the Sept. 23 can­cel­la­tion, a group of aca­d­e­mics or­ga­nized a se­ries of events across the coun­try, as well as in Canada and the UK, which were meant to high­light the is­sue.

“Campuses across North America are join­ing in the cam­paign to re­sist cor­po­rate and uni­ver­sity si­lenc­ing of Palestinian nar­ra­tives and Palestinian voices,” said the day of ac­tion event de­scrip­tion, which was meant to be held on Oct. 23.

The fol­low-up events did not in­clude Khalid pre­sent­ing. The event held in part by New York University, which was can­celed the day of, in­cluded a com­pi­la­tion of her pre­vi­ous state­ments, ac­cord­ing to a blog post on the in­ci­dent.

“Khaled is un­der­go­ing med­ical treat­ment and was un­able to pro­vide a voice mes­sage for the oc­ca­sion,” the post stated.

“Zoom is com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing the open ex­change of ideas and con­ver­sa­tions and does not have any pol­icy pre­vent­ing users from crit­i­ciz­ing Zoom,” a spokesper­son for the com­pany said. “Zoom does not mon­i­tor events and will only take ac­tion if we re­ceive re­ports about pos­si­ble vi­o­la­tions of our Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Community Standards. Similar to the event held by San Francisco State University, we de­ter­mined that this event was in vi­o­la­tion of one or more of these poli­cies and let the host know that they were not per­mit­ted to use Zoom for this par­tic­u­lar event.”

However, Zoom did not re­spond to ques­tions about which spe­cific pol­icy was vi­o­lated or whether other events have been shut down by the com­pany.

Adam Saeed, a stu­dent at University of Leeds, said he used his per­sonal Zoom ac­count to or­ga­nize the event. He told BuzzFeed News that the com­pany deleted his event and dis­abled his ac­count with­out ex­pla­na­tion. He con­tacted the com­pa­ny’s cus­tomer sup­port line, but said he has not yet heard back.

“It can­not be a uni­lat­eral de­ci­sion say­ing, ‘You vi­o­lated our terms of use,’ they have to prove that,” he said. “We have to have the right to con­test this and pre­sent our case.”

Andrew Ross, a pro­fes­sor of so­cial and cul­tural analy­sis at NYU who or­ga­nized the event in con­junc­tion with the American Association of University Professors, called the sit­u­a­tion “absurdist.”

“Everyone work­ing in higher ed­u­ca­tion right now de­pends on Zoom and we can­not be in a po­si­tion of al­low­ing a cor­po­rate, third-party ven­dor to make these kinds of de­ci­sions,” Ross said. “It’s sim­ply un­sus­tain­able.”

Ross added that he asked the tech worker who was help­ing or­ga­nize the event to check whether the link was ac­tive the night be­fore it was set to go live be­cause the event for the University of Hawaii had al­ready been af­fected. It was fine at that point, but by early af­ter­noon Friday, it had dis­ap­peared and there was no op­tion to re­store it.

“Universities tend to get into these lu­cra­tive con­tracts with Zoom, and more or less handed over this very frag­ile power to de­cide what is ac­cept­able aca­d­e­mic speech and what is not,” said Ross. “For those of us who work in the field of sup­port­ing and pro­tect­ing Palestinian rights, it’s no sur­prise to us that Palestinian speech is the first to be cracked down on.”

The NYU event even­tu­ally went on with Google Meet, but the ef­fort was in­ter­cepted by “politically-motivated trolls,” Ross said, and the or­ga­niz­ers had to hold it pri­vately and then pub­lish the record­ing.

Cynthia Franklin, a pro­fes­sor at the University of Hawaii, also saw an event she or­ga­nized deleted by Zoom, but was un­able to find an al­ter­na­tive plat­form.

“I know that I have free speech rights that are be­ing vi­o­lated,” she said, “and a pri­vate en­tity is dic­tat­ing to my pub­lic uni­ver­sity what I can and can­not say.”

Katherine Franke, a pro­fes­sor at Columbia University who was a pan­elist at the NYU talk, has ex­pe­ri­enced events fo­cused on Palestive be­ing can­celed in the past and was re­cently de­ported from Israel. She sees Zoom’s re­ac­tion as an ex­ten­sion of old prob­lems.

“I think it pre­sents a real chal­lenge for uni­ver­si­ties to think about how to pro­tect aca­d­e­mic free­dom in this con­text where we’re so de­pen­dent upon these in­ter­net-based ways of gath­er­ing and talk­ing about com­fort­able and un­com­fort­able ideas,” she said.

If you have an Oculus VR head­set and were think­ing about delet­ing your Facebook ac­count in or­der to go off the so­cial me­dia grid, you may want to re­con­sider. If you com­pletely delete the Facebook ac­count linked to your Oculus de­vice, you will also lose ac­cess to all VR games you pur­chased. You won’t be able to get them back if you make a new ac­count, ei­ther.

You’re re­quired to link a Facebook ac­count when us­ing the Oculus Quest 2 head­set, and if your Facebook ac­count is­n’t in good stand­ing, you will not be able to use the Quest 2 at all. Because of this con­nec­tion, you must keep that ac­count to have ac­cess to the pur­chases you’ve made. You don’t nec­es­sar­ily have to link a Facebook ac­count yet on the older Oculus de­vices, in­clud­ing the first Quest, but as UploadVR pointed out, sup­port for sep­a­rate Oculus ac­counts ends in 2023 and then all users will need Facebook.

If you de­ac­ti­vate your Facebook ac­count in­stead of per­ma­nently delet­ing it, you also won’t be able to ac­cess any of your Oculus in­for­ma­tion. However, this can be re­versed by re­ac­ti­vat­ing it, while the dele­tion method does not have an “undo.” If you make a new ac­count, you’ll have to pur­chase all that con­tent again.

Despite these re­stric­tions, Facebook has made its Quest plat­form quite en­tic­ing re­cently. The lat­est it­er­a­tion is less ex­pen­sive, lighter, and in­cludes a higher-res­o­lu­tion screen than its pre­de­ces­sor, along with a more-com­fort­able strap de­sign. With no more ver­sions of Oculus Rift be­ing made, the com­pany is all-in on the stand­alone head­set, which can also play PC-powered VR games via the Oculus Link ca­ble. That in­cludes high-end VR games like Half-Life: Alyx, es­sen­tially mean­ing you’ll only need one VR head­set un­less you’re in­ter­ested in play­ing PlayStation VR ex­clu­sives.

It’s also part­ner­ing with other game com­pa­nies to bring new block­buster games to the plat­form, in­clud­ing Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond from Respawn Entertainment and new Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell games from Ubisoft. There has not oth­er­wise been a Splinter Cell game of any sort since 2013.

Heavily pro­tected crews on Saturday dis­man­tled the first Asian gi­ant hor­net nest found in the U. S., the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) con­firmed in a state­ment de­clar­ing: “Got ’em.”

The big pic­ture: The in­va­sive species com­monly re­ferred to as the “murder hor­net,” typ­i­cally does­n’t harm hu­mans un­less pro­voked, though it has been known to kill peo­ple in Japan. The in­sect poses a ma­jor threat to lo­cal hon­ey­bee pop­u­la­tions. But the WSDA said in a state­ment that the nest re­moval “appears to have been suc­cess­ful.”

Go deeper: The mur­der hor­nets are here

Michael Larabel is the prin­ci­pal au­thor of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a fo­cus on en­rich­ing the Linux hard­ware ex­pe­ri­ence. Michael has writ­ten more than 20,000 ar­ti­cles cov­er­ing the state of Linux hard­ware sup­port, Linux per­for­mance, graph­ics dri­vers, and other top­ics. Michael is also the lead de­vel­oper of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org au­to­mated bench­mark­ing soft­ware. He can be fol­lowed via Twitter or con­tacted via MichaelLarabel.com.

The Finns were stunned this Friday at the out­come of a scan­dal caused by the ex­tor­tion of a group of hack­ers to a pri­vate com­pany that pro­vides ser­vices as a psy­chother­apy cen­ter for the pub­lic health sys­tem.

In a coun­try that claims to be at the fore­front of dig­i­ti­za­tion and data se­cu­rity, the crim­i­nals man­aged to ac­cess the data­base of thou­sands of cus­tomers of the com­pany Vastaamo af­ter de­tect­ing vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties in their sys­tem.

According to its web­site, Vastaamo of­fers psy­cho­log­i­cal and psy­chi­atric treat­ment to pa­tients who suf­fer from dis­or­ders such as de­pres­sion and anx­i­ety. Many of the clients come from pub­lic ser­vices paid by the Finnish Social Security (Kela).

Extortionists de­manded around 450,000 eu­ros (in bit­coins) in ex­change for not pub­lish­ing the clin­i­cal and men­tal health data of thou­sands of peo­ple.

The crim­i­nals started to pub­lish the data of 100 peo­ple every day in the en­crypted web Tor two days ago. They claimed they would not stop un­til they re­ceived the money. As the com­pany was re­sist­ing to at­tend the de­mands of the hack­ers, per­sonal data of over 200 people - in­clud­ing mi­nors - have been re­leased on­line.

The in­for­ma­tion pub­lished could not be more sen­si­tive: it in­cluded the pa­tien­t’s name, per­sonal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion num­ber, tele­phone num­ber, email ad­dress and res­i­dence ad­dress, to­gether with the con­tent of the ther­apy ses­sions.

“An un­known hos­tile party has been in con­tact with Vastaamo and claims to have ob­tained con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion from the com­pa­ny’s cus­tomers. The Central Criminal Police launched a crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion into the mat­ter. Im­me­di­ate no­ti­fi­ca­tions were also made to the Finnish Cyber ​​Security Center, Valvira and the Data Protection Commissioner. In ad­di­tion, Vastamo took im­me­di­ate steps to clar­ify the mat­ter in co­op­er­a­tion with ex­ter­nal and in­de­pen­dent se­cu­rity ex­perts,” the com­pany said in a press re­lease.

The data of an­other 100 peo­ple were pub­lished on Thursday night. But on Friday morn­ing the page where the data was be­ing re­leased had been deleted, which trig­gered ru­mors about a pos­si­ble pay­ment to the ex­tor­tion­ists.

At the time of writ­ing this ar­ti­cle, the com­pany had nei­ther con­firmed nor de­nied the pay­ment. Tuo­mas Kahri, Chairman of the Board of Vastaamo, told to the news­pa­per Ilta Sanomat that he would not com­ment on the ran­som pay­ment al­le­ga­tions.

The iden­tity or na­tion­al­ity of the ex­tor­tion­ists is un­known, and they ap­peared to not be wor­ried about their pos­si­ble ar­rest by the au­thor­i­ties.

Ilta Sanomat ex­changed sev­eral mes­sages with them on Thursday, and ac­cord­ing to the tabloid the crim­i­nals said they did not know that there was data of mi­nors among the pub­lished in­for­ma­tion. However, they en­sured that this would not stop their ac­tions.

According to the same news­pa­per, the black­mailer had also of­fered in­di­vid­ual pa­tients the pos­si­bil­ity of delet­ing their own data by pay­ing about 540 eu­ros in bit­coins.

The National Bureau of Investigation (KRP) is in­ves­ti­gat­ing the at­tack as a case of gross breach and dis­sem­i­na­tion of pri­vate in­for­ma­tion. Police are ask­ing peo­ple who have no­ticed their pri­vate in­for­ma­tion be­ing dis­sem­i­nated to file an elec­tronic crime re­port.

The com­pany has been crit­i­cized for fail­ing to no­tify cus­tomers ear­lier that their data was ex­posed in this ex­tor­tion case. Some have com­plained they were con­tacted only af­ter the case be­came known to the gen­eral pub­lic.

On 3rd Oct. 2020 GitLab blocked Iranians’ ac­cess (based on IP) with­out any prior no­tice! and five days later (8th Oct.) my friend’s ac­count blocked and still he does­n’t have any ac­cess to his pro­jects! even af­ter cre­at­ing a ticket and asks for a tem­po­rary ac­cess to only ex­port his pro­jects! GitLab re­fused to un­block him! (screenshot in ap­pen­dix). My friend is not the only one who blocked by GitLab, with a sim­ple search on the web you can find a grow­ing list of blocked ac­counts.

So I de­cided to move from GtiLab and EVERY Free Software based/​hosted/​man­aged on/​in USA.

When it comes to USA poli­cies, Free Software is a Joke :)

GitLab is not the only ac­tor in this dis­crim­i­na­tion against Persian/Iranian peo­ple, we also blocked by GitHub, Docker, NPM, Google Developer, Android, AWS, Go, Kubernetes and etc.

But I be­lieve in Freedom and Free Software. I be­lieve Free Software is a SOCIAL MOVEMENT and I hope …

GitLab joined le­gal­ized dis­crim­i­na­tion. Why does no one talk about this?

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A for­mer Google ex­ec­u­tive, who asked not to be iden­ti­fied be­cause he was not per­mit­ted to talk about the deal, said the prospect of los­ing Apple’s traf­fic was “terrifying” to the com­pany.

The Justice Department, which is ask­ing for a court in­junc­tion pre­vent­ing Google from en­ter­ing into deals like the one it made with Apple, ar­gues that the arrange­ment has un­fairly helped make Google, which han­dles 92 per­cent of the world’s in­ter­net searches, the cen­ter of con­sumers’ on­line lives.

Online busi­nesses like Yelp and Expedia, as well as com­pa­nies rang­ing from noo­dle shops to news or­ga­ni­za­tions, of­ten com­plain that Google’s search dom­i­na­tion en­ables it to charge ad­ver­tis­ing fees when peo­ple sim­ply look up their names, as well as to steer con­sumers to­ward its own prod­ucts, like Google Maps. Microsoft, which had its own an­titrust bat­tle two decades ago, has told British reg­u­la­tors that if it were the de­fault op­tion on iPhones and iPads, it would make more ad­ver­tis­ing money for every search on its ri­val search en­gine, Bing.

What’s more, com­peti­tors like DuckDuckGo, a small search en­gine that sells it­self as a pri­vacy-fo­cused al­ter­na­tive to Google, could never match Google’s tab with Apple.

Apple now re­ceives an es­ti­mated $8 bil­lion to $12 bil­lion in an­nual pay­ments — up from $1 bil­lion a year in 2014 — in ex­change for build­ing Google’s search en­gine into its prod­ucts. It is prob­a­bly the sin­gle biggest pay­ment that Google makes to any­one and ac­counts for 14 to 21 per­cent of Apple’s an­nual prof­its. That’s not money Apple would be ea­ger to walk away from.

In fact, Mr. Cook and Mr. Pichai met again in 2018 to dis­cuss how they could in­crease rev­enue from search. After the meet­ing, a se­nior Apple em­ployee wrote to a Google coun­ter­part that “our vi­sion is that we work as if we are one com­pany,” ac­cord­ing to the Justice Department’s com­plaint.

A forced breakup could mean the loss of easy money to Apple. But it would be a more sig­nif­i­cant threat to Google, which would have no ob­vi­ous way to re­place the lost traf­fic. It could also push Apple to ac­quire or build its own search en­gine. Within Google, peo­ple be­lieve that Apple is one of the few com­pa­nies in the world that could of­fer a for­mi­da­ble al­ter­na­tive, ac­cord­ing to one for­mer ex­ec­u­tive. Google has also wor­ried that with­out the agree­ment, Apple could make it more dif­fi­cult for iPhone users to get to the Google search en­gine.