Youtube-dl

Youtube-dl is a entertainment app. youtube-dl is a free and open source download manager for video and audio from YouTube and over 1,000 other video hosting websites.

• Invoke the installer listed on Windows Package Manager:

  winget install -e youtube-dl.youtube-dl

• Invoke the installer from the latest release of its source code repository on GitHub

  Invoke-WebRequest 'https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/latest/download/youtube-dl.exe' -OutFile "$env:Temp/youtube-dl.exe"
  if ($?) {Start-Process "$env:Temp/youtube-dl.exe"}

• Download it from the publisher’s website

Replace local settings with synchronized cloud settings

Invoke-Command {
$cloudFolder = "D:\Nextcloud\Config\Youtube-dl"
$localFolder = "$env:AppData\youtube-dl"
$syncItems = @(
    'config.txt'
)
 
if (-not ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) {
 throw "Administrator privilege required to run this script"
}
 
# Replace local files with references to synchronized cloud files
$syncItems | foreach {
    New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path "$localFolder\$_" -Target "$cloudFolder\$_" -Force
}
 
# Keep all cloud files that can be pointed to always available
Set-Location $cloudFolder -ErrorAction Stop
@(
    Get-Item $syncItems
    Get-Item $syncItems | where PSIsContainer | Get-ChildItem -Recurse
) | foreach { $_.Attributes = $_.Attributes -bor 0x080000 }
}