One of the nice features added to yt-dlp recently: It integrates with sponskrub to call into the SponsorBlock database and with the right options will strip the sponsor segments from downloaded videos.
Edit: Correct typo
Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
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#13So how come a fork was necessary?
youtube-dl has been inactive for the last 2 months.
Most things still work but support of different services is something that needs daily updates to not break. Even if most popular websites still work, pages like Newgrounds are breaking.
There's 3.7k open issues right now and nothing gets merged [0].
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
And they've closed many issues as duplicates with no further explanation given:
Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
And they've closed many issues as duplicates with no further explanation given: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860
Have they been duplicates?
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#16One of the nice features added to yt-dlp recently: It integrates with sponskrub to call into the SponsorBlock database and with the right options will strip the sponsor segments from downloaded videos. Edit: Correct typo
dlc? Don't tell me that's a different one...
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#17So does anyone know what happened to youtube-dl? Development seems to have just abruptly ceased with no explanation.
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#18Why don't they split youtube-dl in two parts:
- The extractors part (all the scrappers basically)
- The cli tool
What would be wonderful is that the extractors part is splitted out, so that anyone can use it without using youtube-dl. That would be much easier to update it too, each extractor is independent, so it is only a question, does this scrapper (extractor) works or not.
The next step would be to have a multi-language format to describe a scrapper, instead of being coded in Python. But no idea if this is possible or maybe that would make things much more complex
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#19One of the nice features added to yt-dlp recently: It integrates with sponskrub to call into the SponsorBlock database and with the right options will strip the sponsor segments from downloaded videos. Edit: Correct typo
dlc? Don't tell me that's a different one...
dlc is abandoned and dlp integrates its features.
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#20> NEW FEATURES
> Cookies from browser: Cookies can be automatically extracted from all major web browsers using --cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE]
Very nice. Having to manually copy cookies to get past login walls is annoying.