I've been using yt-dlp to download transcripts. Are there alternatives that don't require going through all these hoops? I'm guessing no.
I thought transcripts already broke a long ago. Are they working again?
Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
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Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
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Rumble and Odysee and populated with crazy ragebaiting rightwingers, conspiracy theorists, and pseudo-libertarians. Twitch has the issues the other commenter described, and both Twitch and Facebook are owned by billionaires who are actively collaborating with the current authoritarian regime. Facebook in particular is a risk space for actually exercising free speech and giving coherent critiques of authority. Dailymo…
> Rumble and Odysee and populated with crazy ragebaiting rightwingers, conspiracy theorists, and pseudo-libertarians. So, just like Youtube, then?
Proportionally speaking, there's a much higher concentration.
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The change includes the ability to point yt-dlp at a Deno or Node binary of your own choice, which, in principle, allows someone to use a different runtime so long as it provides everything the script needs to run successfully.
What? How could you miss the point that much?
> It would be a good compromise if I could have such an engine which I could build with a simple C compiler. You have modern javascript engines implemented in C, but no web engine
I'm merely telling you that you can do exactly that.
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> they're not going to re-scrape the content they already have That's true for static content, but much of it is forums and other places like that where the main value is that new content is constantly generated - but needs to be re-scraped.
If only sites agreed on putting a machine readable URL somewhere that lists all items by date. Like a site summary or a syndication stream. And maybe like a "map" of a static site. It would be so easy to share their updates with other interested systems.
Why should they agree to make life even easier for people doing something they don't want?
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ideas/assholes/everyone has one, etc
There's a certain rudeness to imposing your own ideas, but that does not apply here. It's not their idea. It's a standard feature of video apps that's missing.
The observation isn't about imposing ones ideas, but rather the relative surfeit of ideas vs the dearth of time/skill/energy to realize them.
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I also pay for YouTube Premium, but I still use ReVanced on my smartphone just to disable auto-translation. It’s absolute madness that users can’t configure this in the official app.
I tried installing ReVanced recently. The configuration of the system (install a downloader/updater which then installs the app) was a huge turn-off. Why is it so complicated? Moreover, why not NewPipe or LibreTube?
When it was just YouTube Vanced they got DMCA'd for redistributing "stolen software"
So instead of "stolen software" they distribute "patches" and a patching framework.
Legally distinct and modding is a much grayer area.
It's code you run locally to company the file, change the bytecode and repack it.
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How you watch copyrighted content has never been something that copyright has controlled.
If the content needs to be copied or downloaded in order to be watched, you may do so exclusively under terms set by the licensor, period. You may not even get fair use rights, as to get the content in the first place you might have to agree to terms of service waiving them, and being found to use the content in an unapproved way would be grounds for cutting off your access.
So in other words, copyright doesn't cover it, thanks for confirming that. The click through contracts you describe have no legal force where I live.
Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
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What? How could you miss the point that much?
> It would be a good compromise if I could have such an engine which I could build with a simple C compiler. You have modern javascript engines implemented in C, but no web engine I'm merely telling you that you can do exactly that.
What?
?????
Are you ok?
This is insanity and exactly not the right thing to do.
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And it would be impossible to bail out those bonds when they defaulted, nor to reuse the bonds to back money.
> And it would be impossible to bail out those bonds when they defaulted Well the US hasn't defaulted so changing how a default works wouldn't really affect the trajectory we took. And a default would be pretty catastrophic either way. > nor to reuse the bonds to back money. I don't know what you mean here.
Well the US isn't on the gold standard. If it was on the gold standard then it would have defaulted. That's why it moved off the gold standard.
Actually, by moving off the gold standard, it defaulted on dollars (at the time a kind of gold bond) rather than defaulting on dollar-denominated government bonds.