There you go:
#!/bin/shyoutube-dl -f 43 "$(zenity --entry --text "plz gibs jewtube url")" | grep -o '[0-9]*\.[0-9]*%' | zenity --progress --auto-close --auto-kill --text "downloading shit faggot"
Or, to get from the clipboard:
#!/bin/shyoutube-dl -f 43 "$(xsel)" | grep -o '[0-9]*\.[0-9]*%' | zenity --progress --auto-close --auto-kill --text "downloading $(xsel) faggot"
You won the argument.
Cool, I didn't know about this one. It even has a Windows version.
dont do that. when you spoonfeed them they just see magical wizard incantations and get to continue being willfully retarded.
If they want to download just audio they'll need a professional Computer Guy(Tm) to code up that feature for their youtube-downloader app youve given them.
If what you wanna do is watch videos its better to just have 'mpv `{xclip -o}'. I dont know what itd be in sh/bash/whatever but you see.
Is it hard to learn the shell? Especially if one uses onscreen keyboards? The keyboard is icky.
heres how you use the shell:
[program name]
then press return just like how you enter anything else.
then optionally, program name [program options and arguments]
so, from the shell
dir
or, maybe, 'dir -a [name of some folder]'
most programs have help output or a manual page too. You can read it all if you want to and its well written but usually you just skim for the information you want. You don thave to hang yourself up on every word you dont know in it.
everything else, like `{} or $(), redirection, etc, is extra to that. I dont know how much of it windows shitty shell even has.
if you use an onscreen keyboard typing will be shit just like it always is typing with an onscreen keyboard. If you insist on eating shit, it will be like eating shit.
You learn those other features as you need them. If you're just downloading youtube videos on windows you probably wont, just use it and skim the help output when you need to do something different. remember or note down somewhere commonly used options, like -x for audio only or the one for webms.
SMTube used to be like MacTubes, a full native client. YouTube changed their API and policies and started shutting down anyone that didn't load webshit to play their ads. Thus SMTube became what it is today (a browser showing tonvid.com) because the developers have real identities and don't want to get sued.
Now the only way to get at the videos is to scrape webpages with something like youtube-dl. If you wanted a full graphical client built it's possible but it would have to be an anondev chan project because it's obviously created solely to help end users circumvent jewgle AIDS and this angers zog.
The vast vast VAST majority of people don't know what a PATH even is, much less how to update it. They see a raw executable and have no fucking idea what the fuck to do with it.
And?
We're not talking about some kind of mathematical computer science here. Its just running a program. Windows has some shitty settings GUI for it somewhere, im pretty sure.
or if the idea of a list of folders you can execute any program inside no matter where you are is too advanced, maybe they can just put it wherever windows shell starts you. or learn the wizardly computer magic of 'change directory(cd)' and 'dir' in five seconds.
the alternative isnt that they can use it without learning, its that they learn yet another shitty gui by poking around it instead. People too dumb or timid to use the command line even to just run a program are too dumb or timid to use a new GUI without being told precisely what buttons to click on anyway.