Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc

by nadermx • 6 years ago

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britmob• 6 years ago

Nice to see youtube-dlc being reinstated.

BTW, this fork was indeed active for a few months before the whole RIAA situation.

ajayyy• 6 years ago

Due note, this is a new re-uploaded repository. The old one is still down.

reanimus• 6 years ago

What's preventing this one from being taken down too?

hatsuseno• 6 years ago

Exposure? Widespread adoption? Luck? You know as well as I do I'd wager.

redvenom• 6 years ago

I think for one, it does not have references to specific videos in the documentation.

setr2• 6 years ago

AIUI this was never the case; it was in a unit test.

dannyw• 6 years ago

The maintainers behind this repo may also have more interest in filing a DMCA counter-notice.

avhon12• 6 years ago

The maintainers of the previous repo didn't get a chance to file a counter-notice. That's why many people are upset at github about this, they took down the repo (and all of the forks, I think?) as soon as they received the letter from the RIAA.

leonidasv• 6 years ago

Does this repo fixed the issue with the unit test downloading a copyright video?

ikeboy• 6 years ago

Yes.

archgoon2• 6 years ago

If the test was downloading a video; it's not a unit test. I know that the definition gets stretched, but at the very least, a unit test should be deterministic. A test relying on a network communication with a third party system stretches the adjective 'unit' to beyond usefulness.

Blahah• 6 years ago

What would a unit test look like for a tool that downloads videos from third party sites?

justinclift• 6 years ago

Weren't the tests under discussion from the original repo only downloading the first <10k or so?

eg just enough to verify the content being pulled down was as expected, as would make sense for a video unit test

lavoiems2• 6 years ago

This repos removed the famous tests some days ago under a commit message "COMPLAINFREE". These tests can be found by looking at the git history: https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/commit/dd2d55f10dac8...

Would it be safer to thoroughly delete these tests from the git history?

Thorentis• 6 years ago

Well the tests can also be found under the DMCA repo history too, so I guess we need to take that repo down.

soulofmischief• 6 years ago

If someone closes the PR and fully deletes the tree from GitHub then the repo should be fine.

Rochus• 6 years ago

No. Tests are an internal technical detail and not part of the product offering to users. Apart from that, a download from youtube in itself does not violate copyright laws.

quyleanh2• 6 years ago

I recently submitted this repo 4 days ago, and it was flagged :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24878283

Now this submit is on the top of HN, and I still don't know why.

ebg13• 6 years ago

Ok, but so what? Do you care about sharing with people (accomplished) or about getting karma points?

danielheath• 6 years ago

I mean, it's kind of naff, but the karma points are there because people like getting them.

chowned• 6 years ago

It makes people wonder how fair the process is.

mrspeaker• 6 years ago

Does anyone know why the README for this warns "DO NOT UPDATE using -U ! instead download binaries again or when installed with pip use a described above when installing."

Why is that? Why leave the -U option there?

avhon12• 6 years ago

yt-dl binaries from the previous repo will update from that same repo, which basically 451s now.

Presumably, the update mechanism in this repo has been pointed to itself rather than upstream, and once you get binaries from it, you can resume updating them with -U.

merricksb• 6 years ago

Discussed here 46 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24450560 (199 points/104 comments)

quyleanh2• 6 years ago

The old repository is taken down. This one should be use for discussion.

lavoiems2• 6 years ago

I think that the recent events should allow for this post to stay up with a link the to previous discussion.

Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

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