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Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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Re: Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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Post by theidel »

lbeltrame wrote: post #2

The repository provides no reasons that brought the need for a fork. Can someone provide additional information?

This is something I was going to address but wasn't my main focus in the beginning. But I made another write-up on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ir8ic6/youtube...

A tiny conversation about this here as well https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc/issues/56#issue...

Re: Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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Post by capableweb »

outadoc wrote: post #6

Isn’t youtube-dl already updated all the time to keep up with scraping changes? I don’t understand why this would claim to be more maintained?

Seems to have been originally spawned from this discussion: "Youtube-dl is dying?" https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462 citing many PRs are not getting merged.

Anecdote: youtube-dl still works for all the sites I'm using it for.

Re: Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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Post by DarthGhandi »

outadoc wrote: post #6

Isn’t youtube-dl already updated all the time to keep up with scraping changes? I don’t understand why this would claim to be more maintained?

To nitpick: It's not scraping, the youtube.com undocumented api changes all the time, in my tinfoil view probably to mess with things like youtube-dl and 3rd party apps.

Re: Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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Post by dewey »

DarthGhandi wrote: post #8
outadoc wrote: post #6

Isn’t youtube-dl already updated all the time to keep up with scraping changes? I don’t understand why this would claim to be more maintained?

To nitpick: It's not scraping, the youtube.com undocumented api changes all the time, in my tinfoil view probably to mess with things like youtube-dl and 3rd party apps.

youtube-dl works for thousands of sites, most of them with web scraping. What are you nitpicking about?
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