ytdl-org/youtube-dl on Hacker News

Here's a git mirror of the entire repo history up the the latest commit hash that I'm aware of. Compare against the commit hash on Google Webcache [1] for safety: git clone https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl Clone, verify and…

comment by q3k · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Seems like a fresh mirror here https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl to fork and start it over somewhere else. Gitea is a great project. Now we need someone to fork and publish it over Tor or something. Decentralized solution would…

comment by arno1 · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Wow even release downloads were taken down $ brew install youtube-dl ... ==> Downloading https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/download/2020.09.20/youtube-dl-2020.09.20.tar.gz ... curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 451…

comment by fabiomaia · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Git mirror: https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl This is master on 4eda10499e8db831167062b0e0dbc7d10d34c1f9, retrieved from gitee.com, and is the last known hash from Google Webcache [1]. Clone, verify and rehost. [1] -…

comment by q3k · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

There's also that copy in the Arctic. I don't think that Github will remove that one. Edit: On a serious note, though. I just realised that Internet Archive apparently doesn't archive most PRs? ( https://web.archive.org/web/20201018122643if…

comment by marc_abonce · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader Or download from https://web.archive.org/web/20201018144703/https://github.co...

comment by nguyenkien · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

You can grab from the web archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20201018120927/https://github.co...

comment by doublerabbit · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

You can download the most recent version of the YouTube-DL code from Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201018144703/https://github.co... Fuck the RIAA

comment by jaspergilley · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl > Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown. (a) Are there mirrors? (b) Are there Github equivalents in e.g. Russia where the RIAA doesn't have jurisdiction or extradition power?

comment by dheera · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

> 1 See https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md... . > Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown. How, exactly? This is why I dislike GitHub's "Fork" button, since a takedown of the original takes yours too.

comment by Lammy · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

…while never giving a reason or the original issue. See this issue I filed for an example. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860 He closed it without even addressing the issue of him closing the related issues that I…

comment by nonbirithm · 2020-09-12 · in Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

> Seems to have been originally spawned from this discussion: "Youtube-dl is dying?" https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462 citing many PRs are not getting merged. As someone who has tried to contribute to YouTube-dl in the…

comment by josteink · 2020-09-12 · in Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

…are still open. Meanwhile, the corresponding PR on youtube-dlc [3] is actively being looked at. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/18230 [2] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/23824 [3]…

comment by Arcorann · 2020-09-12 · in Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

…of that comment. You'll see that dstftw edited it to remove references to the youtube_dlc repo. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462#issue-68... Unfortunately, can't find a way to link to the edit in question directly.…

comment by zo1 · 2020-09-12 · in Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462

comment by theon144 · 2020-09-12 · in Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

Seems to have been originally spawned from this discussion: "Youtube-dl is dying?" https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462 citing many PRs are not getting merged. Anecdote: youtube-dl still works for all the sites I'm using it…

comment by capableweb · 2020-09-12 · in Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/commit-activit... actually suggests that something did happen ~10 weeks ago, with about as many commits since then as there was in an average week before then.

comment by jcranmer · 2020-08-28 · in Fewer commits on YouTube-DL recently

…know, youtube-dl will let you download videos from various sites, including reddit, twitter. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/

comment by frfl · 2020-08-21 · in Show HN: Discover shared videos and live broadcasts from Reddit

It is, from the documentation: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/#subtitle-options youtube-dl --sub-lang LANG --write-auto-sub --skip-download URI

comment by severine · 2020-08-18 · in 1-Euro Houses

I haven't tried it, but I think youtube-dl can bypass it https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/10541 Our own videos have been pirated already and are shared around some torrents sites and on telegram, and there's nothing we can do…

comment by gingerlime · 2020-07-21 · in DIY Video Hosting

…for third-party clients to get past. [1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/754 [2] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860

comment by nonbirithm · 2020-07-17 · in NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client

Yes, youtube-dl (also handles many, many other sites) https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

comment by crtasm · 2020-07-07 · in YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]

And the list is seriously long, too: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...

comment by tim-- · 2020-06-17 · in FFmpeg 4.3

…https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html . It's both free and the source is public domain: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/

comment by ThrowawayR2 · 2020-06-03 · in Ask HN: How to avoid losing a baby video that “violates YouTube's guidelines”?

It has to be supported, there's a list here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/docs/supp...

comment by matja · 2020-05-10 · in How can I download this podcast?

…than RTMP being a popular format. The source of youtube-dl might be an interesting place to start: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_d... If you're thinking of creating a streaming business, you better have a good…

comment by statquontrarian · 2020-05-01 · in Ask HN: How to get started on creating a streaming service?

…have to do is update the package to a somewhat recent version. See above for a way to update. [1]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...

comment by RMPR · 2020-04-13 · in Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

…from discogs https://deadbeatsw.com/thetagger/ - youtube-dl: Download any video / song online https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/ It was fun thinking of these, I actually put together a blog post a while back listing my favorite…

comment by firloop · 2020-04-13 · in Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

Is this up to date? Are there advantages over youtube-dl? https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

comment by w-ll · 2020-04-03 · in YouTube download-and-convert website for ancient browsers

And if you don't know, you can use Youtube-dl to download videos from most sites for offline viewing. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#description

comment by swebs · 2020-03-24 · in YouTube to limit default video quality around the world for a month

…learning curve and setup (not that hard, honestly), this tool (63k stars, GitHub) is amazing. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

comment by vstuart · 2020-03-24 · in How to Download YouTube Videos

…can go to whatever other music service that you think has better quality and get them there. [1] - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/

comment by pmoriarty · 2020-01-30 · in How to Find New Music

…simple[2]), and judging by the number of updates required most sites don't care that much. 1. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d... 2. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_d...

comment by orf · 2020-01-19 · in Show HN: YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily manage YouTube audio

You're not kidding - there seems to be well over 1,000 sites supported: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/docs/supp... I do have to give peertube some thanks though - it might require javascript, but there's a large and…

comment by BuildTheRobots · 2020-01-02 · in Signal Creator on Considerations for distributed and decentralized technologies

…Vimeo and Twitch. You can see the full list of extractors that they have in the source here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...

comment by codetrotter · 2019-11-25 · in Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

…1. https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/blob/8af87f1/src/invid... 2. https://invidio.us/privacy 3. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/76e510b/youtube_...

comment by omarroth · 2019-11-15 · in Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

Or you could just use youtube-dl, which is free. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/

comment by pmoriarty · 2019-10-28 · in The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads

Insome cases youtube-dl downloads the content via ffmpeg, see [1] [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/c3bcd206eb031de3...

comment by timendum · 2019-08-07 · in FFmpeg 4.2

…you can download, and then choose exactly which audio and video formats to download and merge. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...

comment by ihuman · 2019-06-19 · in YouTube is working with Universal Music Group to remaster iconic music videos

Why not use youtube-dl? ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl )

comment by diziet · 2019-06-11 · in Show HN: Super Fast YouTube to MP3/MP4 Converter API

It's well-documented in youtube-dl's readme: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#format-selection It has examples as well: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#format-selection-exam...

comment by aepiepaey · 2019-05-27 · in Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl

…I now immediately download it. Learned the need for that the hard way. Check out its options here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md... With --add-metadata you can embed the YT video description in the video…

comment by AlbertoGP · 2019-05-18 · in Internet Data Is Rotting

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues has 2,350 open and 14,371 closed

comment by jakeogh · 2019-05-16 · in Ask HN: Which GitHub repo has the most open issues?

…output template system. It's just the default output template that is only the title+id. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md... Also, it has the --write-* switches, in particular --write-info-json, which allow to…

comment by rndgermandude · 2019-05-08 · in Marion Stokes: A woman who taped 30 years of TV news

…https://github.com/bitsofpancake/spotify-backup (Python, JSON backup) YouTube backups: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/ YouTube-dl can dump public playlists for YouTube (you might need jq to pretty it up), Google Takeout should…

comment by toomuchtodo · 2019-03-13 · in Spotify trying to lock-in users just after IPO (2018)

youtube-dl will archive annotations to XML with the --write-annotations flag. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

comment by schiffern · 2018-11-27 · in YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019

…-citw -v <url-of-channel> [0] https://askubuntu.com/questions/856911/using-youtube-dl-to-d... [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14083

comment by app4soft · 2018-11-09 · in YouTube Inactive accounts policy

…always seems to work for me. Can't help with ads, though premium has been great for me. [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/

comment by inyorgroove · 2018-10-16 · in Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

…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/...

comment by s3m4j · 2018-09-22 · in Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

…used: https://github.com/requests/requests Best source code layout, architecture, maintainability: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

comment by sparkling · 2018-09-21 · in Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?