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# Install R
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gdebi libxml2-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libopenblas-dev r-base r-base-dev

# Install RStudio
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-xenial-1.1.447-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi rstudio-xenial-1.1.447-amd64.deb
printf '\nexport QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=gtk\n' | sudo tee -a ~/.profile

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#CURL Connections with Tor

Install Apache, PHP, CURL & Tor with apt-get

sudo apt-get install -y apache2 php5 php5-curl tor

Tor creates a proxy on your mashine with port 9050 for SOCKS5 connections.

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function getFileInfo($url){
  $ch = curl_init($url);
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, false );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 3 );
  curl_exec( $ch );
  $headerInfo = curl_getinfo( $ch );
  curl_close( $ch );

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// ==UserScript==
// @name        Best Subtitle Downloader for youtube, ted, vimeo, dramafever and more. Auto subtitle supported. 
// @namespace   https://distillvideo.com/
// @version     2.1
// @date        2018-06-23
// @description Download subtitles or captions from Youtube, TED, Vimeo, Dramafever, Dailymotion, etc. Support mutiple languages. For Youtube, both closed captions (CC) and automatic captions (auto-generated subtitles) can be downloaded if they are available. Fast and easy to use.
// @author      DistillVideo.com
// @copyright   2018, DistillVideo.com
// @homepage    https://distillvideo.com/page/extensions
// @compatible chrome

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// ==UserScript==
// @name         Distill Video & Audio Downloader from 5000+ sites including Youtube, Support 1080P, 2K, 4k & 8K
// @namespace   https://distillvideo.com/
// @version     2.1.1
// @date        2018-06-17
// @description Browser extension to download video and audio from Youtube, Twitter, Vimeo, Facebook, Dailymotion, 1tv, VK, youku, bilibili and 5000 more sites for free. Fast and easy to use.
// @author      DistillVideo.com
// @copyright   2018, DistillVideo.com
// @homepage    https://distillvideo.com/page/extensions
// @downloadURL https://distillvideo.com/js/ditillvideo.user.js

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// ==UserScript==
// @name        DistillVideo Downloader
// @namespace   https://distillvideo.com/
// @version     1.0
// @description Browser extension to download videos
// @author      DistillVideo
// @copyright   2018, DistillVideo
// @homepage    https://distillvideo.com/page/extensions
// @downloadURL https://distillvideo.com/js/ditillvideo.user.js
// @match          *://*.youtube.com/*

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* In php, the function "get_headers" sometimes is slow, especially if you want to get headers of a batch of urls in parallel.
* In this case, you should use curl.

function get_headers_curl($url){
  $curl = curl_init();
  curl_setopt_array( $curl, array(
      CURLOPT_HEADER => true,
      CURLOPT_NOBODY => true,
      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
      CURLOPT_URL => $url));

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Since python 2.x will be deprecated in 2020, it is better to use python 3.x for youtube-dl. 
Plus, python 3.6 runs faster. But for ubuntu, normaly, youtube-dl just uses python 2.x. 
Here is how to force youtube-dl to use python 3.6.

*1.Install python3.6 according to this gist:
https://gist.github.com/thodison/3dfcff7d09560357c9c6a9b453e0d6ed

*2.Edit ~/.bashrc
Add the folloing line on the top, then save and close it:
alias python3="python3.6"

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* For the Ubuntu 14.04 system, it is not easay to install python 3.6 and make pip3 work using the python3.6.4 path. If installed from the repository with ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6,
* there are always problems to use pip3 to call python 3.6.4. So this gist will help to solve such problems.
******


sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstallsudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev
cd ~
sudo wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.4/Python-3.6.4.tgz
sudo tar xzf Python-3.6.4.tgz

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