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

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

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Post by dryfish »

thewebcount wrote: post #106
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #26

haven't paid attention to this since all the drama last year but again - what are all of you using youtube-dl for? Archiving your channel subs?

I genuinely hate using YouTube because it's awful. Random pop-ups all over the page. Weird suggestions on the sidebar because I don't have an account and don't want one. Ads that start in the middle of a sentence and play again if you rewind, etc. so you can't actually understand the video you're watching. So I wrote an app that takes a YouTube URL, downloads the video with youtube-dl, and just plays it in a normal O…

I did the same but it's all bodged together which means I usually don't watch anything from Youtube.

It's a shame that the only video links on HN seem to be from Youtube.

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

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Post by skinkestek »

arghwhat wrote: post #231
skinkestek wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Heck, they even keep recommending the utility of Terms of Service violations like accessing contents from other regions. You mean helping helpless US companies who doesn't understand that Europeans can understand English? Or actually get the full database of movies when we pay the full price for Netflix? Yeah, shame on us. PS: I don't use VPNs to access Netflix, I just don't care to look at it anymore and one day I…

Not that I personally care if individuals violate terms of service, but using that in a sales pitch seems akin to advertising for piracy services. Abiding by the terms of the agreement which you enter into with the company providing the service is a requirement to continue service and/or avoid liability, irrespective of whether it includes completely idiotic and archaic business practices and irrespective of whether…

What is the right way to overturn stupidity then?

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

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Post by chupasaurus »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #229
epse wrote: post #215

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It's hard to compare apples to apples, as ad revenue is based on amount of ads shown and your premium subscription is divvied up among your most watched creators based on watchtime [1] [1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7060016?hl=en

Great link! Do you think it is fair to say the YouTube Premium payout model is similar to the music streaming platform, Spotify? At the risk of nerd sniping myself, thinking deeper, I wonder if people who sign up for YouTube Premium do less random surfing on YouTube and instead focus on a few channels they love? That would _further_ concentrate their payouts. If true, then the 10x figure sounds reasonable.

Nope. Spotify divides the whole subscription revenue per content's share in total time being played, thus it doesn't matter if you listen exclusively to some garage band - your money would go to whatever pop is now topping.

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

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Post by thomasfl »

alerighi wrote: post #275
selfhoster11 wrote: post #264

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Apparently, copyright law makes this an unwise proposition. But the least they could do is offer the Internet Archive with some privileged access so all this can be mirrored and viewed when it's out of copyright in 80 years.

They could at least let you download videos for which the author specified a free license, such as Creative Commons, or videos that are public domain. There are a lot of these videos so why not?

Just discovered that several video sharing sites, like pexels.com, have a download button on videos with creative commons license. They are off course useless for professional YouTubers, but great for everybody else.

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Post by hansel_der »

vxNsr wrote: post #174
ronnier wrote: post #49

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I made a tool for myself so I could 1 click download videos to my iphone's camera roll. It's based on youtube-dl. I like to share raw videos and do not like to share URLs. I use this tool to make that easy -- I copy a url and run the iOS shortcut and the video auto saves to my camera roll. https://github.com/rroller/media-roller

Where do you direct share videos that will allow >5min of 1080p?

telegram for example

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Post by sodality2 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #253
sodality2 wrote: post #162

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Android? Youtube vanced offers this built-in.

Never heard of YouTube Vanced. I see it's not open source. The feature list is interesting, but it doesn't say anything about tracking/telemetry. Does the app track you (and how much), independently of YouTube tracking? I'm currently happy with NewPipe - which is essentially a youtube-dl GUI, and has to be updated just as often, which is damn annoying because FDroid is still completely broken UX-wise - but I have les…

Newpipe works as well. Youtube vanced cannot be open source as it is just a nodded youtube client, which isn't open source. I cannot speak on tracking but I tracked its DNS requests and nothing out of the ordinary.

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

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Post by corobo »

kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #37
Ansil849 wrote: post #33

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> Are the sponsor parts really so bad? Yes. Some of us don't like being assaulted with sales pitches everywhere we look.

I think for some us pro-sponsor-segment people, I feel like regular ads are particularly dry and more of an "assault." But sponsor segments... can be creative, funny, and sometimes make me actually want to buy the product (...not the generic Raid: Shadow Legends ones... but even those if they're well done). I appreciate well-made ads, so I don't mind sponsor segments. Here's an example of one that is... nonsensical a…

> sometimes make me actually want to buy the product

Yes this is why we dislike them (other than time wasting)

I don't want to be manipulated into buying crap, I'm good enough doing that myself

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Post by corobo »

boolemancer wrote: post #99
crtasm wrote: post #74

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I don't believe the view counter gets incremented when using any unofficial front-end/downloader.

How would Google's backend know whether the traffic comes from their own frontend vs a utility like youtube-dl (assume for the sake of argument that the utility is trying to make the traffic look like normal YouTube traffic)?

If the actual video URL is somehow grabbable from the API you might miss whatever triggers a +1 view from the website in theory

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

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Post by [deleted] »

stinos wrote: post #223
LeoPanthera wrote: post #19

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dlc is abandoned and dlp integrates its features.

So dlc is a fork of dl, but dl itself has actually a bunch of fairly recent commits which dlc does not have. And dlp nor dlc are 'forks' in the Github sense of forking. So how does one figure out whether recent dl commits are in dlp? And does this matter? Is this the downside of 'if you don't like it then just fork it and fix it'?

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

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Post by RealStickman_ »

midasuni wrote: post #230
lawl wrote: post #42

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> Are the sponsor parts really so bad? To me not only is it easy to skip, I want indie people to make enough money to produce high quality content; otherwise media is just what a few biggies want to fund. In my experience, it's the same with ads everywhere else. It (usually) starts out not being overly obnoxious, with just a "this video is sponsored by [garbage tier mobile game/earphones/vpn/whatever] more about them…

Map Men do great sponsor parts, actually entertaining to watch. I find the same with christmas adverts each year - I don’t do tv, but go out of my way to watch the adverts and get in the festive mood come December.

The only adverts I actually unskip (using SponsorBlock normally) are those by InternetHistorian.
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