How does it work anyhow? It must do more than `wget` the mp4
That is essentially what it does: it uses Youtube's own API to formulate the correct URL, using all publicly known data that Google themselves publish so Youtube can function.
YouTube-dl source code encoded in two images
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#62Side Question : Is there a distributed alternative to github ?
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#63Just for fun, I wrote a little Python script to convert the image files back into the original archive.
Use Pillow to read the pixels from each file, and write the RGB values to a new file. Then use the gzip library to uncompress that and create a TAR file. Then I just viewed the TAR file in The V File Viewer.
I stopped there because that was enough to show that it worked. I have ImageMagick installed somewhere, but this was more fun.
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#64This recent takedown will only make more people know about YouTube-Dl and hopefully create more forks. When will these big companies learn!?
Plenty of people used and knew about youtube-dl already. It's made the front page of HN multiple times [0]. I've used it as a key example of why/how non-programmers should learn to use the command-line. People who weren't already aware or didn't care to learn aren't going to be significantly moved now.
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#65Side Question : Is there a distributed alternative to github ?
I'm not sure if this is a joke, but I'll humor you. Yes - it's called git.
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#66How does it work anyhow? It must do more than `wget` the mp4
It also uses ffmpeg to combine various pieces, and I'm not sure what wget like program they use by default. It doesn't do much though.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure if this is a joke, but I'll humor you. Yes - it's called git.
I’m not sure if this is a joke, but I’ll humor you. GitHub is way more than git.
Gitlab is working on federation, or they at least have an open issue about it.[1]
Meanwhile there is a federated git as a reference implementation called Forgefed.[2]
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#69Genuine question, how viable is it, if we (code monkeys) created some sort of a blacklist of the entities that are not allowed to use our open source projects? -- something like "We don't support Internet Explorer" but a bit more aggressive? like "These entities don't understand the Internet, we don't support them, they cant use our software"? Maintaining that list would be a ton of work and edge cases tho :/
Do you really want to live in a world where software is politicized to the point that FOSS devs are maintaining shit-lists of undesirables barred from using basic tools? It won't end well, and the adverse effects will disproportionately impact people without power, not the large companies you have in mind.
Politics is just getting what you want.
Software is already political. Commercial software traditionally does this through direct and indirect lobbying efforts. The DMCA didn't just spontaneously appear out of thin air. There must be action-for-action retaliation.
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#70There is a mirror at Gitee: https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader