Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes • Hacker News Board

julienpalard wrote: post #4

ozarkerD wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Devs on yt-dl have been inactive for a few months iirc

Does not look inactive to me: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/contributors

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Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by MrDOS » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 8:39 PM UTC

ozarkerD wrote: post #3

Y_Y wrote: post #2

So how come a fork was necessary?

Devs on yt-dl have been inactive for a few months iirc

For longer than that. 846 open PRs, 3.7k open issues. And this long predates the GitHub takedown debacle. This isn't to say that they're totally AWOL: they do a really good job keeping on top of the boring break/fix work, like keeping on top of the ever-changing interfaces of video providers. But they're very conservative about expanding functionality, and even fixing more minor bugs.

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by SevenSigs » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 8:39 PM UTC

ozarkerD wrote: post #3

Y_Y wrote: post #2

So how come a fork was necessary?

Devs on yt-dl have been inactive for a few months iirc

my youtube-dl still works fine for youtube.com but I haven't tested many other supported sites...

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by the-dude » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 8:41 PM UTC

ozarkerD wrote: post #3

Y_Y wrote: post #2

So how come a fork was necessary?

Devs on yt-dl have been inactive for a few months iirc

Wasn't the repo taken down for a while?

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by pluc » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 8:41 PM UTC

There's this too: https://github.com/deepjyoti30/ytmdl

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by rtkwe » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 8:43 PM UTC

julienpalard wrote: post #4

ozarkerD wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Devs on yt-dl have been inactive for a few months iirc

Does not look inactive to me: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/contributors

It does look like there's little activity in the last couple months and none in the last almost 2 months.