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Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

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Re: Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

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Post by s3m4j »

stingraycharles wrote: post #3

In my experience, YouTube-dl needs to be updated quite frequently, as YouTube changes their design. How is this handled here? Is periodically kill / restart the container enough?

It's not been my experience, but it is changed often enough that if you don't use it often, then yes it might give that impression.

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/commits/master/youtube_dl/...

Re: Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

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Post by markovbot »

stingraycharles wrote: post #3

In my experience, YouTube-dl needs to be updated quite frequently, as YouTube changes their design. How is this handled here? Is periodically kill / restart the container enough?

It looks like they're installing youtube-dl via apt, from the Ubuntu 16.04 repos (which is what the docker image uses as a base), do even rebuilding wouldn't cut it. I wonder if this will even work out of the box, because YouTube changed something that required youtube-dl to fix a month or two ago.

Re: Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

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Post by Spivak »

stingraycharles wrote: post #3

In my experience, YouTube-dl needs to be updated quite frequently, as YouTube changes their design. How is this handled here? Is periodically kill / restart the container enough?

Same as how most containers update, rebuild a new version push and deploy.

Re: Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

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Post by s3m4j »

markovbot wrote: post #6
stingraycharles wrote: post #3

In my experience, YouTube-dl needs to be updated quite frequently, as YouTube changes their design. How is this handled here? Is periodically kill / restart the container enough?

It looks like they're installing youtube-dl via apt, from the Ubuntu 16.04 repos (which is what the docker image uses as a base), do even rebuilding wouldn't cut it. I wonder if this will even work out of the box, because YouTube changed something that required youtube-dl to fix a month or two ago.

But it isn't actually using that in the app, it's using the https://github.com/przemyslawpluta/node-youtube-dl npm package.

Re: Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

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Post by codetrotter »

s3m4j wrote: post #8
markovbot wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like they're installing youtube-dl via apt, from the Ubuntu 16.04 repos (which is what the docker image uses as a base), do even rebuilding wouldn't cut it. I wonder if this will even work out of the box, because YouTube changed something that required youtube-dl to fix a month or two ago.

But it isn't actually using that in the app, it's using the https://github.com/przemyslawpluta/node-youtube-dl npm package.

Which in turn relies on the original youtube-dl.
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