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story by SturgeonsLaw · 2021-12-19 · 140 comments

it seems like the process has begun for the owner/maintainer to step down: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/21b759057502c6... I haven't found anything else related to this yet (i.e. who will be taking over, if anyone)

comment by shbooms · 2021-12-17 · in YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021

Looks like the maintainer is stepping down https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/21b759057502c6...

comment by arprocter · 2021-12-17 · in YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021

Seems to be https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/24604 ? The complaint is that it's come up repeatedly ('Not again. Use search') - agree it's a bit of a brush off, and it's not helpful for anybody (perhaps most of all the…

comment by OJFord · 2021-12-17 · in YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/29989 There's this pull request that works on fixing the problem (not merged yet), I don't know if it is yours under a different alias, but you can see the work and edge cases involved for…

comment by CannisterFlux · 2021-12-17 · in YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021

…claims to fix this issue[2]. Will check it out. [1]: < https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp > [2]: < https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326 >

comment by yakubin · 2021-12-17 · in YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021

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story by pdimitar · 2021-12-17 · 106 comments

…it's something for the future. Hopefully someone can clarify what they mean by this statement. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29663#issuecom... [2] https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike

comment by gh0std3v · 2021-11-28 · in Return YouTube Dislike - Extension

I'm very, very sorry to say that IMO he has a point about toxic community. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues an example: Rich with people who demand a lot, pay nothing and do nothing. FWIW, I once stood next to someone at a…

comment by Arnt · 2021-11-04 · in I Dislike Open Source

Better link: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326 and the problem is fixed in the fork https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

comment by rasz · 2021-11-02 · in YouTube throttling download through yt-dl

This comment [1] also says youtube-dl is no longer maintained. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30075#issuecom...

comment by sohkamyung · 2021-11-02 · in YouTube throttling download through yt-dl

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story by sohkamyung · 2021-11-02 · 4 comments

…on youtube-dl as I'm busy with work, ongoing renovation and other post-relocation stuff." [1] [1]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29965#issuecom...

comment by MrGilbert · 2021-11-01 · in A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl written in wxPython

There are workarounds (detailed very nicely in dirkf’s pull request for youtube-dl ): https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184 Pasting the content here for convenience: Since summer 2021, YouTube has started serving media URLs…

comment by arm · 2021-11-01 · in A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl written in wxPython

…a video URL that ffmpeg understands, which unfortunately is not always the case.) Related: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...

comment by tuukkah · 2021-10-15 · in Show HN: Download videos, but only the parts you want

I have proposed this some years ago ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/14646 ), but it didn't get much attention from the maintainers. It has been previously rejected in 2013 already ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/iss…

comment by aexl · 2021-08-27 · in Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

youtube has recently been implementing download speed throttling on some video downloads. See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326 . Youtube-dl does not yet have a solution for this occasional download speed throttling.…

comment by dasl · 2021-08-26 · in Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

Quite the opposite; number of contributions increased: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/contributors Just seems a case of the same what usually happens: main author loses interest, has other stuff to do, etc. and no one really…

comment by arp242 · 2021-08-26 · in Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

And they've closed many issues as duplicates with no further explanation given: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860

comment by nonbirithm · 2021-08-26 · in Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

…like Newgrounds are breaking. There's 3.7k open issues right now and nothing gets merged [0]. [0] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues

comment by kunagi7 · 2021-08-26 · in Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

Does not look inactive to me: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/contributors

comment by julienpalard · 2021-08-26 · in Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

I mean, just look at < https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29809 >. They don’t even bother removing spam.

comment by pwdisswordfish8 · 2021-08-25 · in Youtube-dl is possibly dead

…reported ongoing breakage without giving a reason. Here is one especially illuminating example: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860 And there is also an entire fork that fixes the support for just a single provider,…

comment by nonbirithm · 2021-08-24 · in Youtube-dl is possibly dead

…so much more than just YouTube now - they have scrapers for dozens (maybe hundreds) of video sites: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...

comment by simonw · 2021-08-24 · in Youtube-dl is possibly dead

…where many people take a month off. You therefore need to look at the commit rate last year. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/commit-activit... only goes back a year, but does show that last August had only 0 or 1 commits per…

comment by eesmith · 2021-08-08 · in YouTube-dl dead? Latest commit on Jul 1, 2021

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story by ugjka · 2021-08-08 · 3 comments

…much more. Looking at the file names here should give you a pretty good idea of what is supported. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...

comment by jwitthuhn · 2021-07-13 · in An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

…the VPN. If you have already verified your account you can just pass the cookies and download. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom... [2] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom...

comment by miles · 2021-06-01 · in YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

…have “—-username” and “—-password” flags, or will prompt for a password if you just specify “-u”. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#authentication-option... But as of a couple days ago it wasn’t working for age-restricted videos.

comment by philshem · 2021-06-01 · in YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

The title should be updated to indicate that this change only affects EU-based IP addresses: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom... https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom...

comment by miles · 2021-06-01 · in YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

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story by makeworld · 2021-06-01 · 445 comments

…so I always have a copy." I keep this in my local crontab: ssh john@rsync.net "git clone mirror https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl.git"

comment by rsync · 2021-04-18 · in GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is apparently a problem

…https://www.youtube.com/c/PBSKIDS/playlists You could use youtube-dl to curate content: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

comment by throwaway39912 · 2021-04-15 · in Our plans for PeerTube v4

I'm just waiting for youtube-dl to support gumroad https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26874

comment by Gelob · 2021-03-16 · in Gumroad raises $5M from Crowd SAFE in first 24 hours

…or uberspace is doing some maintenance? People report the same on Github (if that's not you ;)): https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28196 - maybe follow that for updates?

comment by detaro · 2021-02-18 · in Ask HN: Yt-dl has insecure cert?

…ion.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decen... [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/976 [3] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/2238

comment by guidovranken · 2020-12-20 · in Ask HN: To which FOSS projects will you donate a little something?

I wouldn't trust them - maybe use youtube-dl instead to download a local copy: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

comment by splatzone · 2020-12-19 · in If I use YouTube's DVR, will they delete it if they delete the video

…and run the result through Google Translate[1]:" youtube-dl --sub-langs [DESIRED LANGUAGE] [1]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...

comment by Leftium · 2020-12-04 · in Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

…to save subs, though I think you’d have to post-progress them to get them without time stamps. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...

comment by pimlottc · 2020-12-04 · in Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

Which would break some common authentication options in ytdl: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#authentication-option...

comment by dleslie · 2020-11-21 · in Guidance to developers affected by effort to block less secure browsers, apps

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#authentication-option... Username, Password, 2FA, etc.

comment by dleslie · 2020-11-21 · in Guidance to developers affected by effort to block less secure browsers, apps

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story by patrickyevsukov · 2020-11-16 · 0 comments

It is not the case, and all that has happened is a removal: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...

comment by crtasm · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

It does, but it's broken. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860 The developers are not responding to the issue, and from what I understand it is borderline impossible to fix, because there is an entire security team behind…

comment by nonbirithm · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

It supports a lot of video sources [1], not just Youtube. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/3f1748b9445e9d93...

comment by calcifer · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

…HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:52:27 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Location: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/download/2020.11.12/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz Content-Length: 3 Connection: close…

comment by JosephRedfern · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

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story by fredley · 2020-11-16 · 0 comments

…one, or is there more to come? [1]: https://twitter.com/t3rr4dice/status/1320660235363749888 [2]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/2de2ca6659a18b...

comment by MrGilbert · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

…like a reasonable thing to not do, and just replace those tests with just random cat videos. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...

comment by dutchmartin · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

Here is the commit: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7... It seems that only removing the test was enough.

comment by Sebb767 · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored