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Is ripping videos from YouTube (even not for permanent storage, just to show in a different interface) legal?

• saagarjha 8y ago
  youtube-dl exists, and seems to get around this issue by scraping the page rather than using the API.
  • ct0 8y ago
    Page scraping is generally frowned upon by the host. Its seams like the volume of people using youtube-dl is just so low comparatively its not on the "radarr" at youtube.
    • solarkraft 8y ago
      Restrictive APIs are frowned upon by technical users.
    • freedomben 8y ago
      > Its seams like the volume of people using youtube-dl is just so low comparatively its not on the "radarr" at youtube. youtube-dl breaks all the time (but fixes get pushed upstream quickly). I don't know if this is intentional or accidental, and I won't speculate. However, it's a constant game of cat and mouse.