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

#12

Post by dewey »

YouTube-dl as a name is already confusing enough because it works for so many sites and YouTube is just one of them. Why complicate it even further in your fork by renaming it to YouTube-dlc (The "c" stands for community I guess) when dlc already stands for so many other things.

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

#13

Post by BiteCode_dev »

capableweb wrote: post #7
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.

I maintain several open source projects. Sometimes PR are not merged for years.

I'm not payed for this, I'm not even thanked for this most of the time, so I'm certainly not going to set any deadline.

But forking might be a solution, if you can give the necessary horse power for the long run.

Most can't.

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

#15

Post by dependenttypes »

capableweb wrote: post #7
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.

I find it gross that dstftw (the core youtubedl maintainer) censored the part about youtube-dlc from that issue.

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

#16

Post by theon144 »

dewey wrote: post #12

YouTube-dl as a name is already confusing enough because it works for so many sites and YouTube is just one of them. Why complicate it even further in your fork by renaming it to YouTube-dlc (The "c" stands for community I guess) when dlc already stands for so many other things.

I assume it's going to be hard enough for the community to know about this fork in the first place, signaling direct continuity is definitely a reason to name the fork so similarly.

Besides, Mozilla has nothing to do with Mosaic, XBMC had nothing to do with Xbox for years...

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

#17

Post by malikNF »

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?

Especially considering the last release to youtube-dl was just 6 days ago. Guess OP picked a bad time to post the fork.

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

#18

Post by theon144 »

dependenttypes wrote: post #15
capableweb wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I find it gross that dstftw (the core youtubedl maintainer) censored the part about youtube-dlc from that issue.

CTRL+F'ing `youtube-dlc` comes up with several hits - was there more that is missing now?

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

#19

Post by theon144 »

capableweb wrote: post #7
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.

Counter-anecdote: Even YouTube support is somewhat flaky (age-restricted videos, private (as in, locked behind auth) videos, random failures), and several sites I use are broken and require additional options (cookies) for even basic functionality.

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

#20

Post by theon144 »

malikNF wrote: post #17
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?

Especially considering the last release to youtube-dl was just 6 days ago. Guess OP picked a bad time to post the fork.

Still sitting at 725 unmerged and/or unrejected PRs though.
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