Using wget or HTTrack with youtube-dl?

[NickWinston123]

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Hello, I was wondering if there was any easy way to connect youtube-dl to something like wget or HTTrack when downloading things like soundcloud songs or youtube pages. I would like to use something like wget to copy websites and when playing the song / video from the downloaded html page, I would like it to pull from whereever youtube-dl put the song (not pulling from online but from the download location).
If there isnt a way to do this, could I do this with something like bash or would I have to program something something entirely to do this?

[dstftw]

It's technically impossible since download URLs are dynamic and involve real communication with remote party not a mirrored copy.

[robmOz]

Hi just wondering if you made any progress on this? I am interested in getting HTTrack to use youtube-dl to download videos.