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Personally I don't even use it to watch the video and instead open them in browser, but it allows to monitor the channel you want and only that with a 'feed' that consist of their video in chronological order.
It doesn't require self hosting, no YouTube account, has the thing to skip promotional video and setting to automatically change clickbait thumbnail.
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I have one too, it's honestly a very fun area to program around, and I'm not going to be surprised if this thread is full of me-toos. Mine is specifically meant to help get videos onto plex in exactly the way we want - with particular emphasis on playlists, taking the numbering and putting it in plex format, and transcoding any codecs (detected via ffprobe) i know certain shitty players (smart TVs) will have issues w…
Have a repo you can share?
I call it "dadware".
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> lot of power users and creators would find the YouTube platform useless for themselves and abandon it en masse for its nearest competitor. Not so sure, since everything is monetized nowadays (YouTuber make video to earn money) and the audience is there, i don't see how they could move anywhere.
The interesting question is whether YT as a platform pays enough to make this a relevant factor. Which I very much doubt is the case for most creators.
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If they shut down yt-dlp for good, a lot of power users and creators would find the YouTube platform useless for themselves and abandon it en masse for its nearest competitor. A tool like yt-dlp is very much required if you want to engage professionally with that kind of community. Even something as trivial as making a well-produced "video reaction" relies on it. Yes, YT has good monetization, but it still pays peanu…
> lot of power users and creators would find the YouTube platform useless for themselves and abandon it en masse for its nearest competitor. Not so sure, since everything is monetized nowadays (YouTuber make video to earn money) and the audience is there, i don't see how they could move anywhere.
What I've wanted for a while now is a browser extension that adds a button on youtube video pages, where you click on it and it does yt-dlp downloading but saves it to something like ipfs and posts it to some free video site for indexing. Basically, there should be a video indexing/search/discovery protocol (don't care if it's still http) where random people can submit metadata and a link to a distributed content-add…
What you're describing is a piracy platform. That makes it pretty tricky to get off the ground, with regards to funding and outreach.
Ahaha, I love the "vi/vim" pronouns on Christian's GitHub profile[0]. How have I never seen this before? [0]: https://github.com/christian-fei
Ahaha, I love the "vi/vim" pronouns on Christian's GitHub profile[0]. How have I never seen this before? [0]: https://github.com/christian-fei
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Along with so many shorts. So many. Going from Smarttube back to the official app and it just plain sucks.
I use the "unhook" extension which let's you remove recommendations, set your youtube home page to your subscriptions (chronologically ordered videos), block shorts and more (you can cherrypick the features you want). Highly recommended. I would have paid for youtube premium if I was given these options, honestly.
I kind of wish people would stop making yt-dlp more accessible and increasing Google's desire to shut it down.
so, essentially, what you are saying is that yt-dlp should have never been open-sourced/published and ever posted on HN (so that not even you would have found out about it)?
In order to ensure that not too many people learn about yt-dlp, we should also work to remove all access to knowledge about the magical super big brain requiring, mytical command line.
In fact to ensure that Google does not kill yt-dlp, everyone in the world except tracerbulletx should be force fed chemical powder that makes them stupid.
That way, only tracerbulletx will understand yt-dlp, and he can heroically guard this super secret tool that only those worthy deserves to know.
I kind of wish people would stop making yt-dlp more accessible and increasing Google's desire to shut it down.
If they shut down yt-dlp for good, a lot of power users and creators would find the YouTube platform useless for themselves and abandon it en masse for its nearest competitor. A tool like yt-dlp is very much required if you want to engage professionally with that kind of community. Even something as trivial as making a well-produced "video reaction" relies on it. Yes, YT has good monetization, but it still pays peanu…