Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

Post by crazygringo » Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 2:27 PM UTC

Forgeties79 wrote: post #93

crazygringo wrote: post #25

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Just because the balance shifts doesn't mean the desktop/laptop stops being supported. Laptops aren't going anywhere. Even if phones and tablets replace them for a third of tasks, or a third of people. The idea that laptops with browsers would become so rare that YouTube would drop support, within any reasonably predictable future timeframe, is pure fantasy.

>within any reasonably predictable future timeframe I think given the pace of technological advancement and given how every generation we see at least one major piece of electronics completely wipe out generations of predictions, this statement doesn’t serve a productive purpose other than to make “I don’t agree” sound like some variation of “it’s an objective fact that what you said is impossible.” You’re just spiki…

Post by moralestapia » Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 2:27 PM UTC

FergusArgyll wrote: post #117

moralestapia wrote: post #42

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Same here and my motivation was that some of my liked videos were randomly removed and it's pretty cool music I wanted to keep forever. I made another script that adds the video thumbnail as album art and somehow tries to put the proper ID3 tags, it works like 90% of the time which is good enough for me. Then I made another script that syncs it to my phone when I connect it. So now I have unlimited music in my phone…

I have a script that calls out to a small llm artist = llm_call("return the name of the artist based on this title", title) etc. with some stripping of newlines etc. It works well! they can often infer the correct answer even if it's not present in the title

Post by npteljes » Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 2:28 PM UTC

cantor_S_drug wrote: post #90

bdz wrote: post #36

I use yt-dlp (and back then youtube-dl) all the time to archive my liked videos. Started back in around 2010, now I have tens of thousands of videos saved. Storage is cheap and a huge percent of them are not available anymore on the site. I also save temporary videos removed after a time for example NHK honbasho sumo highlights which are only available for a month or so then they permanently remove them.

You are a digital hoarder. I have taken so many pics that I wouldn't even bother to look back that them (do we ever?) but Google memories is really a neat feature, it refreshes memories. I think you should run a similar service to refresh memory of your favourite videos like they are on speed dail.

Post by BenGosub » Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 2:30 PM UTC

xeonmc wrote: post #3

In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.

Post by jrochkind1 » Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 2:31 PM UTC

arbll wrote: post #102

djoldman wrote: post #18

From https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS it looks like deno is recommended for these reasons: > Notes > * Code is run with restricted permissions (e.g, no file system or network access) > * Supports downloading EJS script dependencies from npm (--remote-components ejs:npm).

It's fine for this project since google is probably not in the business of triggering exploits in yt-dlp users but please do not use deno sandboxing as a your main security measure to execute untrusted code . Runtime-level sandboxing is always very weak. Relying on OS-level sandboxing or VMs (firecracker & co) is the right way for this.