Note by @fastfinge

Project I'm vaguely thinking of building: getthing. A GUI where you paste a URL, and it sends the link to yt-dlp, or fanficfare, or ARIA2c, or spotdl, or streamlink, based on the website and what supports it, and then just saves the thing. Because I often have things I want, and I don't like thinking about what app to use. Also, I have a nest of scripts to keep it all working: the update thing that updates yt-dlp and ffmpeg and deno, the other different update thing that updates fanficfare, the thing that uses rookie to get the auth cookies from my browser, the thing that bypasses cloudflare, the other thing that bypasses cloudflare when the first thing doesn't, the thing that keeps the user-agent up to date for all the different other things so they are impersonating the latest version of a browser, etc. Someone should really just put this all into a package that will just save stuff to your hard drive in the "correct format"(tm) that you probably wanted based on what it is.

@fastfinge I would use this immediately mate, immediacy abounds for a product like that. Not get it done immediately but as in, with out hesitation I would use the mess out of it.

@dodecahedron Hmmm. The main thing is getting the list of supported domains for each tool. I don't wanna update the GUI every time a tool updates, and I want the GUI to keep the tools it uses up to date, so I'm gonna have to parse the command output where it lists supported websites. That's really the big job that I don't already have code for.

@fastfinge For fanficfare do you just use it with Flaresolverr?
Also I just update yt-dlp and fff with uv, scince I installed it with uv tool.

@fastfinge Sounds interesting. I hope you build it.

@serrebi I'll hack on it a bit, see if I can come up with anything reliable enough for a public release.

@fastfinge I want this thing too!