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It must be exhausting to maintain youtube-dl, what with youtube changing its api every so often. It would be a huge shame if we lost youtube-dl, though. For ex
by andrewzah 6y ago
It must be exhausting to maintain youtube-dl, what with youtube changing its api every so often. It would be a huge shame if we lost youtube-dl, though.
For example, I use cron jobs to run shell scripts that invoke youtube-dl to automate downloading youtube videos I save to various playlists.
I just ran youtube-dl and downloaded some videos just fine, so I'm not sure what Gloryness is referring to.
- banana_giraffe 6y agoAnd it's not just a game of chasing YouTube. Many people aren't aware of this, but youtube-dl downloads from a rather large collection of video-hosting sites [1] Some of those sites are stable, and have no problem with programs like youtube-dl, but some are constantly moving targets, and probably going out of their way to try and block youtube-dl. The thought of maintaining it, while facing a constant stream of "my favorite site broke, you MUST fix it now!" stresses me out, much less dealing with it. 1 = https://pastebin.com/7iVHkKG7 https://pastebin.com/7iVHkKG7