Download a full YouTube playlist with PowerShell
Recently, a colleague approached me requesting pointers on the quickest possible way to download a YouTube playlist. I’d used KeepVid.com previously, to download videos one at a time, but never found a good tool to use to download a full playlist. So I decided to make one!
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You can run desired state configuration on any system which can run WMF 4.0.
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Many times we in Dev/Ops or a sysadmin role will create tools for our own use to get nicely formatted output in the console. Normally projects like this have three phases. In the beginning, people are doing something very manually, or have a huge task to accomplish. In the first phase, it’s good enough to make it work, and get people using it ASAP. From there, it’s a great phase of quickly iterating adding more features and refining the scope of the tool or project, and everyone is happy. Well, everyone but you. The final phase has you putting the finishing touches on everything and really polishing it up. I love on the field engineering, because many times I’m saving someone from a terrible load of work, or making what was arduous a simple task. Drawing put the true potential of powershell and converting others is one of my greatest professional joys.
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