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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 genewitch »

azinman2 wrote: post #129
varelse wrote: post #127

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Easy: a downloader that makes it look like you've watched those stupid commercials, but you actually haven't and you're back to the original video. Let the sponsors beware.

Until they see they get very little ROI and stop advertising that way. It's not like people sponsoring aren't looking to see what these channels do for them and just spend blindly...

In the 1940s and 1950s radio programs and eventually television shows were sponsored by advertisers. soap operas get their name for being vehicles for soap companies. Off the top of my head Fitch's soap company was a big advertiser in the 40s. Another big advertiser in the forties and fifties was rexall.

I don't know what the return on investment was, I always figured they did it as a way to show that they supported the arts.

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

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Post by jjulius »

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?

Live music performances, both new and old. YT is a great resource for that sort of thing, and I don't trust that that stuff will remain on YT and readily accessible for years to come, so I slap them on my NAS and watch them via Plex.

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

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Post by vxNsr »

22c wrote: post #137
Scaevolus wrote: post #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.

I was recently looking for a library that did this and couldn't find anything nice. I was surprised but also slightly disappointed to see that yt-dlp has essentially rolled their own (cookies.py [1]). [1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/yt_dlp/cookies....

It’s open source so you could theoretically pull it out and generalize it… idk if anyone wants to manage that project (seems like a ton of work even for an open source project) but I’m sure it be interesting.

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

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Post by vxNsr »

ronnier wrote: post #49
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 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?

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Post by judge2020 »

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)?

Youtube proper does a lot of JS, eg. a view is usually only counted after ~30 seconds[0] and does other things like logging the current timecode so that it can return to that time in case the user clicks off the video and returns to it later[1].

0: https://www.tubics.com/blog/what-counts-as-a-view-on-youtube....

1: https://i.judge.sh/rare/Cherry/chrome_H0p9bAoLgy.png the red line is how far in i've watched.

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

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Post by aero-glide2 »

joshspankit wrote: post #159
nerdponx wrote: post #60

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It's always strange to think that there is encrypted data flowing through my software, through my operating system, into my hardware, that somehow I, the user, I am unable to access, but that the hardware can handle just fine. How does this work?

HDCP is one method, as are the “safeguards” built in to the audio and video APIs on macOS (to protect them from losing revenue by recording iTunes Music (before they removed DRM) or screen capturing new movies (thus threatening the contracts with Hollywood).

The OS prevents you from screen recording when a new movie is playing? You can still use a third party tool to screen record right?

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

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Post by kragen »

totetsu wrote: post #161
kragen wrote: post #160

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What does "blocked" mean? Is your fork still "blocked"?

Blocked meant that when I tried to view my fork I got a DMCA page. There were some instructions about how to merge in the changes or something but I didn't have time at the time.

Oh, so if you merge in the changes from the original repo that remove the copyrighted music URL from the test data, then your repository will work again?

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

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Post by opan »

russelg wrote: post #145
lawl wrote: post #69

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> But what then do you think is a realistic alternative? Not my department. I'm perfectly happy being a parasite. I used to watch Twitch every now and then. Twitch introduced server side ads and made ad-blocking unreliable and annoying - so i stopped using twitch. My life doesn't depend on youtube, and if they decide to shut me out or the platform stops existing, that's fine with me. Maybe other video platforms can t…

Twitch is still perfectly fine with streamlink. There's a 15 second loading screen where ads are meant to go (only at the start of your stream), but you don't see any ads.

mpv + youtube-dl also works fine.

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

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Post by throwaway2037 »

willow-x wrote: post #153
kelnos wrote: post #77

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I pay $10/mo for YouTube Premium, and my expectation is that I will not have to sit through any ads. A sponsorship is an ad, which violates that expectation, so I use SponsorBlock to skip them. For channels that I watch regularly, I contribute to their Patreon if they have one. I shouldn't have to sit through a sponsorship segment in addition to that.

If you pay for YouTube Premium, the creators of monetized videos you watch get paid an order of magnitude more than with just YouTube ads.

"order of magnitude" implies 10x. That's great news for small / independent creators! Can someone point me to a source for this information?
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