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How to download videos from websites (mainly YouTube)
This tutorial assumes you are using a Debian Linux distro. Youtube-dl is a python script that can be installed on any OS but the procedure will change.
Check out the youtube-dl man page for everything there is to know including installation. If you want to test if it works just run "$ youtube-dl <URL>" (by default downloads video to home folder). You may need to install additional packages like AtomicParsley or ffmpeg depending on your specific distro and what you're trying to do.
To create this gif tutorial of how I created the gif tutorial of the gif tutorial, I start off with a folder full of nice print screens I took throughout the process of creating the gif tutorial of the gif tutorial
Then I paste the same command as in step 2 of the previous tutorial, just changing the source path and output file name to suit my needs
The gif is ready and this tutorial is over
To create this gif tutorial of how I created the gif tutorial of the gif tutorial, I start off with a folder full of nice print screens I took throughout the process of creating the gif tutorial of the gif tutorial
To create the gif tutorial above I took several print screens during the process and put them in this folder /PlaylistDownload
Then I pasted the following command into the terminal $ convert -delay 200 -loop 0 ./PlaylistDownload/*.png PlaylistDownload.gif
Within a matter of an entire few seconds which seemed like days, the gif was complete and ready for upload
To create the gif tutorial above I took several print screens during the process and put them in this folder /PlaylistDownload
Paste the URLs of the videos or playlists you want to download into a text file and save it. For this tutorial I chose the Socialist Appeal Revolution Festival playlists of 2018 and 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzIctqUQHdO6zmUjYE0YnP7Wah8PRwuRV - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzIctqUQHdO4ya_d_2RyHaWScBf_fU3ox
In this example I saved the text file as DownloadList in the home folder, but you will have to replace the <text_file_path> and <destination_file_path> with your own. The default destination folder is whichever folder the terminal is cd'd to. Paste into the terminal $ youtube-dl --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail -a <Text_file_path> -o <destination file path>
Finally there they all are. All 15 videos of the 2018 Revolution Festival in London hosted by Socialist Appeal (I put the 4 videos released to date from the 2019 revolution festival into their own folder)
Paste the URLs of the videos or playlists you want to download into a text file and save it. For this tutorial I chose the Socialist Appeal Revolution Festival playlists of 2018 and 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzIctqUQHdO6zmUjYE0YnP7Wah8PRwuRV - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzIctqUQHdO4ya_d_2RyHaWScBf_fU3ox
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell (pen name of Robert Noonan)
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The communist manifesto - Marx and Engels
Value, price and profit - Marx
Wage, labour and capital - Marx
The ABCs of dialectics - Trotsky
State and revolution - Lenin
The transitional programme - Trotsky
Socialism: utopian and scientific - Engels
The transition from ape to man - Engels
Reform or revolution - Luxenbourg
The russian revolution - Luxenbourg
Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism - Lenin
Left wing communism: an infantile disorder - Lenin
In defence of October - Trotsky
Stalinism and Bolshevism - Trotsky
Why socialism? - A. Einstein
To read
Das Kapital - Marx
The poverty of philosophy - Marx
What is to be done? - Lenin
Anti-During - Engels
The origin of the family, private property and the state - Engels
Reason in revolt - Alan Woods and Ted Grant
Terrorism and communism - Trotsky
Lenin and Trotsky - Alan Woods and Ted Grant