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2039 points Gadiguibou | 1 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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klausa ◴[27 Jun 23 12:42 UTC] No.36491947[source]▶
`pbcopy` and `pbpaste` are one of my most-loved in the list.

Dealing with some minified json, switching to iTerm, doing `pbpaste | json_pp | pbcopy` and having a clean output is _so_ nice.

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m463 ◴[27 Jun 23 18:45 UTC] No.36497033[source]▶
I have a script always running that polls for youtube URLs using pbpaste and runs yt-dl

then just highlight any youtube link and COPY

later when I have time, I can use quicklook to browse directory of youtube videos.

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RoyGBivCap ◴[27 Jun 23 23:18 UTC] No.36500059[source]▶
FYI: yt-dlp is more up to date and faster, AFIK: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

I download and save it as 'ytdl' for convenience, but I use it all the time on twitter too.

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1. m463 ◴[28 Jun 23 00:14 UTC] No.36500555{3}[source]▶
sorry mistyped, that's what I use