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

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Post by saagarjha »

zo1 wrote: post #22
theon144 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Being able to edit people’s comments on GitHub is nice as a maintainer but removing information and completely changing people’s comments is really nasty. Any such effort should be clearly justified, preferably with a visual “edit message” that goes along with the smaller “edited” text.

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

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Post by kzrdude »

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.

The job of a maintainer is to reject PRs. So yeah, they are falling behind in saying no, maybe they just don't want to say no, so they let them sit. Happens everywhere.

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

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Post by jrimbault »

trzeci wrote: post #32
0-_-0 wrote: post #27

A GUI-based alternative is JDownloader

I was also using JDownloader mostly, but looks that this comment isn't popular. Is there something about JDownloader that I'm missing?

It's not exactly the same category of software. It's a download manager, not a video extractor/scrapper.

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

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Post by trzeci »

jrimbault wrote: post #35
trzeci wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was also using JDownloader mostly, but looks that this comment isn't popular. Is there something about JDownloader that I'm missing?

It's not exactly the same category of software. It's a download manager, not a video extractor/scrapper.

Thanks!

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

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

jrimbault wrote: post #35
trzeci wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was also using JDownloader mostly, but looks that this comment isn't popular. Is there something about JDownloader that I'm missing?

It's not exactly the same category of software. It's a download manager, not a video extractor/scrapper.

It should be noted though that it has a fairly powerful built-in scrapper supporting video download from numerous sites. Unfortunately checking the code it seems to be closely integrated to the rest of the program, so someone cannot make (easily) a console utility based on it.

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

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Post by liability »

kzrdude wrote: post #34

Youtube-dl seems to be widely used behind the scenes, for example in Mpv, right? This wasn't obvious from using mpv.

Yes mpv uses youtube-dl via the builtin ytdl_hook.lua script.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/player/lua/ytd...

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

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Post by lozenge »

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 supports Smart TVs, games consoles and other platforms where updating is slow or nearly impossible. Its API is stable for that reason.

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

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Post by josteink »

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.

> 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.

As someone who has tried to contribute to YouTube-dl in the past, the absolute disinterest I received and complete lack of follow up on simple bug-fixes caused me to completely dismiss YouTube-dl as a FOSS project worthy of my time.

And I say that as someone who sends PRs to projects I’ve visited once, over tiny things like typos or lack of installation/build instructions in the readme.

Some of my PRs received a crazy all-or-nothing treatment, asking me to fix huge, long-standing bugs nobody had fixed for years, instead of accepting a 2-line diff which did a provider-specific workaround which solved a real bug, but seemingly not in the “right” way.

Completely toxic and hostile.

That someone has started a community-fork with a more welcoming and pragmatic approach does not surprise me in the least.

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