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Best tools for ripping content (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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While trying to find a torrent for a show, I became curious about how others are creating the torrents I know and love. Is ripping a video from a streaming service relatively easy? Are there tools y'all would recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

yt-dlp does a great job at ripping on majority of websites. If yt-dlp can't rip something then likely there is service-specific tool to do that i.e tidal-dl for Tidal (hi-fi music service). There's also a hardware method that involves cheap chineese hdmi splitters (it needs to be a cheap one, b/c they lack support for DRM) and hdmi capture card. Sometimes it's DVD or blu-ray ripping.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Very informative, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

there is service-specific tool to do that i.e tidal-dl for Tidal (hi-fi music service)

Do you know of any others?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, no. You can open https://github.com and look for name of service you're intrested in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Good idea!