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You could spin up a DigitalOcean droplet in the London region around once a week and use youtube-dl to download the bits you're interested in. Cost would be lik
by lorenzhs 11y ago
You could spin up a DigitalOcean droplet in the London region around once a week and use youtube-dl to download the bits you're interested in. Cost would be like $0.10 per month. You could even make a script that sets up an OpenVPN droplet and automatically tears it down, would still be very very cheap.
- matthewrudy 11y agoI ran openvpn on digital ocean before. But then I wanted one in the UK sometimes, and in the US sometimes. And then I tried to watch HKTV from Taiwan, so needed one in HK. So I ended up with ExpressVPN. But... let's see what happens this year. Especially with netflix!
- lorenzhs 11y agoIf you set it up manually each time, sure, that won't work very well. But you should be able to automate that - create the config (CA and everything) once and then just spin up a droplet via the API, install the packages, copy and unpack the config. I don't think you'd need to customize more than the sever's IP address in the config. I built something similar with sshuttle (way easier than OpenVPN) two years ago, it's at https://github.com/lorenzhs/instavpn https://github.com/lorenzhs/instavpn but it uses the old DO API and is rather hacky. sshuttle also isn't very good for streaming.
- matthewrudy 11y agoI'll have a go! Thanks for the suggestion.