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Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
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Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
#372When I first got with my wife I seemed a bit crazier than I am because I am a media hoarder for 30+ years. I don't have any VHS, DVDs, etc. laying around because I only keep digital copies, but I have pretty decent archives. Nothing important really, just normal stuff and some rare or obscure stuff that disappears over time. My wife was interested in the idea that I was running "Netfix from home" and enjoyed the lack…
>fails to do what I want here and download h264 content
you are missing [vcodec^=avc1] ?
Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why I'm not using Google accounts for anything important, I left gmail in 2014 and I really advise everybody to do the same. You never know when the hammer can drop.
Google doesn't capriciously deprecate things in a short amount of time. When they sunset features, there's plenty of warning. They'll tell you that there's a hammer, that it's going to drop on you in 6 months, which is plenty of time for you to get out from under it. Which, I mean, I'd rather there not be a hammer, but it's not like they're gonna announce on a Friday that they're shutting down Google Keep on Monday a…
The hammer isn't shutting down a service, it refers to your Google account getting banned for a violation or whatever reason they feel like.
Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
#374Noteworthy to me: deno is MIT licensed, but PyPI distributions (at least the ones I checked) include neither license nor source code. It's normal for pre-built distributions ("wheels") to contain only the Python code (which for a project like this is just a small bootstrap used to find the compiled executable — it doesn't appear to be providing any Python API), but they should normally still have a LICENSE file. It's…
(Update 2: the distribution has been updated. Thanks to Trevor Manz for an unexpectedly prompt response!)
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#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
NewPipe is incredible. If Google ever stops signing apps like that, I'll be switching to a Linux phone.
as soon as they have a map app that works with car play i'm switching to linux phone.
GNOME Maps is good enough for me. I don't know what Carplay is and at this point I'd rather not ask.
Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
#376When I first got with my wife I seemed a bit crazier than I am because I am a media hoarder for 30+ years. I don't have any VHS, DVDs, etc. laying around because I only keep digital copies, but I have pretty decent archives. Nothing important really, just normal stuff and some rare or obscure stuff that disappears over time. My wife was interested in the idea that I was running "Netfix from home" and enjoyed the lack…
> It actually fails to do what I want here and download h264 content so I have it re-encoded
I struggled with that myself (yt-dlp documentation could use some work). What's currently working for me is:
yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[widthRe: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
#377Days of just getting data off the web are coming to an end as everything requires a full browser running thousands of lines of obfuscated js code now. So instead of a website giving me that 1kb json that could be cached now I start a full browser stack and transmit 10 megabytes through 100 requests, messing up your analytics and security profile and everyone's a loser. Yay.
For now, yes, but soon CloudFlare and ever more annoying captchas may make that option practically impossible.
You should be thankful for the annoying captchas, I hear they're moving to rectal scans soon.
Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
#378Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why I'm not using Google accounts for anything important, I left gmail in 2014 and I really advise everybody to do the same. You never know when the hammer can drop.
Google doesn't capriciously deprecate things in a short amount of time. When they sunset features, there's plenty of warning. They'll tell you that there's a hammer, that it's going to drop on you in 6 months, which is plenty of time for you to get out from under it. Which, I mean, I'd rather there not be a hammer, but it's not like they're gonna announce on a Friday that they're shutting down Google Keep on Monday a…
I'm not afraid of them deprecating Gmail, I'm afraid thar I wake up one day and the account is banned without recourse.
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#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’ll be fixed when some product manager can offer it as a promotion project
I was talking to "my friend" about how I'm annoyed my calendar duplicates holidays because it imports from multiple calendars and he asked me "what value" would be provided if this was solved. Confused I said it pushes things off so I can't read events. He clarified he meant monetary value... We're both programmers so we're both know we're talking about a one line regex... I know quite a number of people like this an…
Hmm. If the annual subscription is $100 then the value of fixing this is $100.
If it is free, then, what's the profile worth for a year... there's the value.
User retention is a thing.
Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
#380Days of just getting data off the web are coming to an end as everything requires a full browser running thousands of lines of obfuscated js code now. So instead of a website giving me that 1kb json that could be cached now I start a full browser stack and transmit 10 megabytes through 100 requests, messing up your analytics and security profile and everyone's a loser. Yay.
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