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

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Post by dependenttypes »

theon144 wrote: post #18
dependenttypes wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Check the edit history of the first post.

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

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Post by zo1 »

theon144 wrote: post #18
dependenttypes wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

You can look at the edit history of that comment. You'll see that dstftw edited it to remove references to the youtube_dlc repo.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462#issue-68...

Unfortunately, can't find a way to link to the edit in question directly. You'll have to click once there to see the diff.

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

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Post by Arcorann »

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 use youtube-dl to download from Nico Nico Douga, which means having to restart the download every few minutes because the program doesn't send heartbeat requests. There's been a PR to fix this for a couple of years now [1], and a more recent updated PR to add encrypted video support [2], both of which are still open. Meanwhile, the corresponding PR on youtube-dlc [3] is actively being looked at.

[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/18230

[2] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/23824

[3] https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc/pull/55

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

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Post by zo1 »

I fully support this. I know it's hard for maintainers to do stuff for free and people request too much at times. But it appears that the attitude of the original maintainers of this project are actively "hostile" and they're not willing to accept the help from additional maintainers that have contributed fixes and testing. So a fork was in order, for sure. And from the look of the comments on the issues on the fork, it seems that people are happy with the continuity and effort that is being put into the fork.

Open source can be downright hostile and unpleasant at times, so I can definitely understand the frustration. All sorts of shenanigans happen constantly.

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

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Post by dannyw »

Fantastic. This is the beauty of open source. `youtube-dl` has had quite a number of breaking issues, where fully working PRs were raised and tested but not merged for weeks and with no communication.

I am glad to see `youtube-dlc`. Please, support the self updater as well (if it is not supported already). For my archival servers, I have a cron job that updates every day, I hope I can do that with youtube-dlc too.

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

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Post by ekianjo »

theon144 wrote: post #20
malikNF wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Is there anything bad about that number? Something which is very popular is bound to get a lot of PRs, and reviewing them takes time.

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

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Post by uquaiH9c »

theon144 wrote: post #19
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.

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.

Which sounds perfectly normal for a webscrapper.

Are those issues you describe fixed in not merged PRs in youtube-dl and fixed in merged PR in youtube-dlc?

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

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Post by danielheath »

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?

Getting a fix merged to youtube-dl is quite an endeavour. No criticism to the fantastic maintainers - I encourage them to run their excellent project however suits them best - but I’m not going to try again in future.
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