run youtube-dl in background on debain/wdmycloud

[sudhirkankal]

I have installed it, and it works for url ..but want it to run in background job

[phihag]

I am not sure what your problem is. You can run any command in the background by adding & to the command line, or, if the process is already running, press Ctrl+Z to interrupt the process and enter bg to let it run in the background. You may also be interested in screen and cron.

All of these options should work fine with youtube-dl.

[sudhirkankal]

Hi,

I would like to see whether nohup will work ?

I tried .. but if we close putty session, the scripts disconnects

regards,
sudhir kankal

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Philipp Hagemeister <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

I am not sure what your problem is. You can run any command in the
background by adding & to the command line, or, if the process is already
running, press Ctrl+Z to interrupt the process and enter bg to let it run
in the background. You may also be interested in screen
https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-quick-tutorial-on-screen/ and cron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron.

All of these options should work fine with youtube-dl.

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[phihag]

I am not sure what you mean by the scripts or disconnects, but youtube-dl works fine with nohup, too:

phihag@ytdl-test:~$ nohup youtube-dl --rate-limit 1k BaW_jenozKc >ytdl.log &
[1] 5934
phihag@ytdl-test:~$ nohup: ignoring input and redirecting stderr to stdout
cat ytdl.log && exit
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Extracting video information
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐-BaW_jenozKc.mp4
[download]   4.3% of 1.53MiB at  1.33KiB/s ETA 18:44logout
Connection to ytdl-test.phihag.de closed.
phihag@t4:~$ ssh ytdl-test.phihag.de

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Sun Feb  8 20:21:41 2015 from 2001:4dd0:ff00:336::2
phihag@ytdl-test:~$ cat ytdl.log 
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Extracting video information
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐-BaW_jenozKc.mp4
[download]   4.8% of 1.53MiB at  1.10KiB/s ETA 22:37
phihag@ytdl-test:~$

If you want us to help you, you need to provide more information, for example a log that shows that (and how) youtube-dl fails. Remember that you can always use screen too.

[sudhirkankal]

i will try tonight and confirm you. Thanks. I think I missed out using '&'
character at end of nohup command.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Philipp Hagemeister <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

I am not sure what you mean by the scripts or disconnects, but youtube-dl
works fine with nohup, too:

phihag@ytdl-test:$ nohup youtube-dl --rate-limit 1k BaW_jenozKc >ytdl.log &
[1] 5934
phihag@ytdl-test:$ nohup: ignoring input and redirecting stderr to stdout
cat ytdl.log && exit
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Extracting video information
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐-BaW_jenozKc.mp4
[download] 4.3% of 1.53MiB at 1.33KiB/s ETA 18:44logout
Connection to ytdl-test.phihag.de closed.
phihag@t4:~$ ssh ytdl-test.phihag.de

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Sun Feb 8 20:21:41 2015 from 2001:4dd0:ff00:336::2
phihag@ytdl-test:$ cat ytdl.log
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Extracting video information
[youtube] BaW_jenozKc: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐-BaW_jenozKc.mp4
[download] 4.8% of 1.53MiB at 1.10KiB/s ETA 22:37
phihag@ytdl-test:$

If you want us to help you, you need to provide more information, for
example a log that shows that (and how) youtube-dl fails. Remember that you
can always use screen too.

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#4903 (comment).

Regards,
Sudhir Kankal