ytdl-org/youtube-dl on Hacker News

…the tests for RIAA member videos as the only change, which I assume helped get this restored: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...

comment by envy2 · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

…email address of the current youtube-dl maintainer and Google search results[3] don't quickly reveal it. - "github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl" acted as a Schelling Point - "yt-dl.org" also acted as Schelling Point How would new people easily…

comment by jasode · 2020-11-02 · in GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned

youtube-dl was already on a path to become unmaintained, or at least too slowly updated to keep up with the fast moving services it targets. https://web.archive.org/web/20201014194602/https://github.co...

comment by rnhmjoj · 2020-10-27 · in A Youtube video downloader written in Go

The description blurb at the top implies it's not by the original maintainers. >This is a backup of https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl since it was taken down by the RIAA. >I'll wait to see what happens with the GitHub repository and…

comment by Arnavion · 2020-10-27 · in A Youtube video downloader written in Go

…the community merged in the tool faster, since youtube-dl's development seems to be slowing down. ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462 )"

comment by ugjka · 2020-10-26 · in How journalists use youtube-dl

There is no "arms race", because the maintainers made no commits to the tiktok extractor for the past 8 months AFAIK. And twitch, a fairly important site, was similarly broken for three months due to maintainers' inactivity:…

comment by llacb47 · 2020-10-25 · in Youtube-dl GitHub Template

…[list] (yes, this is basically trickery to hit the (ii)) (iii) identification of infringement > https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl [...] And there you go, all 6 required elements + claim of infringement + demand for takedown are there.

comment by rndgermandude · 2020-10-25 · in GitHub Reinstates Popcorn Time Code Despite MPA ‘Threat’

Original youtube-dl repo which has been taken down and replaced with DMCA notice: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

comment by miguelmota · 2020-10-25 · in YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

> If anyone has an up to date repo of the github pages repo > that'd be great too. The webpage seems to be still up [1], it should be possible to grab those resources. The releases can be rebuilt from the tags - the only other thing is the…

comment by bArray · 2020-10-24 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

I couldn't find a copy for a binary on gitea, so I tried Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://github.com/ytdl-org/yo... E.g. the first snapshot redirects you to https://web.archive.org/web/20200923163719/https://github-pr.…

comment by oleg131 · 2020-10-24 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

https://web.archive.org/web/20200930093107/https://github.co...

comment by e12e · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

…the technology employed by YouTube is an effective technical measure within the meaning of EU 1 See https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#readme. and German law, which is materially identical to Title 17 U.S.C. §1201…

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

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

▲ 8

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

story by LinuxBender · 2020-03-06 · 5 comments

…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/

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