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

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Post by mercer »

kairumination0 wrote: post #9

As a casual end user of youtube-dl, I find that as long as I keep it up-to-date it is highly reliable and meets all my needs on every O.S.

I built a web app that is basically a wrapper around youtube-dl. By default it downloads and audio version that I can then just open with VLC on my Android phone and listen to in the background.

It's incredible how many links I can just throw at it, and things just work. Every once in a while I need to update the binary, but I can't blame that on youtube-dl.

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

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Post by brailsafe »

Seems like this is derived from a dissatisfaction with maintenance, but all I'm seeing is that they're maintaining things just fine. Yes, there are a lot of open PRs, but there are also quite a few merged, reviewed, and closed PRs. While I do support forks in the spirit of FOSS, I disagree that YT-dl is being poorly maintained and find that it continues to work well for my needs.

To the person who started the fork, what happened when you inquired about the apparent problem via email?

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

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Post by xorcist »

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.

Let's hope the fork merges those 700 PRs and see which project is maintained in five years.

Keeping software well maintained involves a lot of saying no, unfortunately.

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

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Post by user5994461 »

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 dodgy software. It got acquired and got some spyware/adware/toolbars embedded. Don't trust.

Personally, I removed the older version I had, fearing it would auto upgrade and auto install malware.

It's a download manager for shared hosting sites, mostly used for downloading movies/shows/games. It can get videos from youtube, dailymotion and a hundred sites but it's not the main purpose. Users are willing to try anything to get their latest tv show, there is too much money in bundling adware to ignore. The software was great once upon a time, then it got popular, eventually the author sold out.

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

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Post by pwdisswordfish4 »

josteink wrote: post #40
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.

> 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…

I had basically the same experience. I even got requests for functionality that was already there, as if the maintainers didn't even read or test the patch. There are a number of pull requests of mine that have been waiting open for years, ready to be merged.

Maybe I'll have more luck with this fork.

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

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Post by iforgotpassword »

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?

This seems indeed a confusing post/fork. youtube-dl is already very successful and popular. I use it almost every day.

So what is it about youtube-dlc that makes it special compared to the other 12k forks? You scroll down to the readme and it's the exact same, just that someone replaced -dl with -dlc.

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

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Post by ldarby »

noxer wrote: post #43

One tool that does everything. Its literally backwards. It eventually always results in one tool that's constantly broken. There should be a tool for each site if there is a maintainer who actually cares about that site.

This is misapplying the unix philosophy. There would be too much duplicated functionality between different tools for different sites. It would be like having different versions of /bin/ls for different file systems.

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

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Post by raziel2p »

Arcorann wrote: post #23
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 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.…

It makes sense that it's easier to give Not saying forks should never happen - streamlink and KeepassXC are examples of great forks off the top of my mind - but you can't judge just on anecdotal stale PRs.
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