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You can download the most recent version of the YouTube-DL code from Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201018144703/https://github.com/ytdl-or

You can download the most recent version of the YouTube-DL code from Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201018144703/https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl https://web.archive.org/web/20201018144703/https://github.co... Fuck the RIAA

viro 6y ago
ok so I might just be stupid but how does that link let me clone the repo?.....
- 29_29 6y ago
  click code, download zip
  - deleted 6y ago
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- wizzwizz4 6y ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/zip/master https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a ZIP containing the repo.
  - dheera 6y ago
    Wow I didn't think they'd host ZIP files of every commit of every repo. Where the hell do they have that much hard disk space, and who is funding them?
    - mikeyouse 6y ago
      Archive.org https://archive.org/about/credits.php https://archive.org/about/credits.php
    - qwerty456127 6y ago
      We are funding them together: https://archive.org/donate/ https://archive.org/donate/
      - blitblitblit 6y ago
        The copyright trolls are encircling Archive.org ever since they briefly offered the National Emergency Library. They need all the good vibes we can send them, please donate!
    - jagged-chisel 6y ago
      In a large datacenter. People like you and me, some institutional grants here and there...
    - aspenmayer 6y ago
      Internet Archive seems to be heavily promoting Protocol Labs tech and File Coin specifically on their Twitter feed. I have donated small sums and ran a couple fundraisers via Facebook which benefited Internet Archive. The promo for File Coin is new. They pitch it as building a decentralized AWS, which I'm not sure if File Coin gets you 100% of the way there, but it's a start?
    - slaymaker1907 6y ago
      I give them money every month because their archives are essential to preserving our history. Not to mention, they have really saved my bacon before when I really needed to read some technical blog published a decade ago that has since been lost due to the website being reorganized or even being completely taken down. Even though it takes a lot of bandwidth, I think preserving the source code on GitHub is an invaluable service and hope they continue to do so. I didn't know they were saving the zip file of every release, but I can understand why. It gives you point in time snapshots more easily and who knows how easy it will be to use a git repo from today 100 years from now. ZIP is a much simpler format if it needs to be reimplemented and is used all over the place.
  - arno1 6y ago
    It doesn't contain git commit history. Clone a fresh mirror off here https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl.git https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl.git
- capableweb 6y ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/zip/master https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a link to zip of master from commit 4eda10499e8db831167062b0e0dbc7d10d34c1f9, which was around 18/10/2020
  - soerface 6y ago
    IPFS CID of that zip file: QmaCpz7YkLGaAQxa3kRHGQhhd23RQFHuKPzhHaa2pC3i53
- metahost 6y ago
  You can use the download zip button instead of cloning.
- deleted 6y ago
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- yamrzou 6y ago
  As another comment pointed[0], there is a mirror on gitee: https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872999
- q3k 6y ago
  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 rehost. [1] - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o7ilf8kWUQsJ:https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o7ilf8...
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djsumdog 6y ago
I can still install it via pip: pip3 install --user --upgrade youtube-dl So I guess they haven't issued a take down to PyPy yet.
- moonchild 6y ago
  *PyPi. PyPy is an alternate implementation of python.
kzrdude 6y ago
youtube-dl is in every linux repo, so the source code is widely mirrored and is not going anywhere.
- muyuu 6y ago
  they need to move development elsewhere though youtube-dl becomes obsolete very quickly as endpoints make changes on their settings and formats, notably youtube.com themselves
  - Barrin92 6y ago
    just throw it up on Gitee good luck ever getting through the Chinese court system on a copyright issue
    - fibers 6y ago
      wow this straight up sounds like the best solution by far since who knows if microsoft or google is willing to put up a fight
    - hackerman123469 6y ago
      That is actually one of the best solutions
oefrha 6y ago
You can only download a snapshot from that page. Here's a tarball with the entire git repo in case anyone's interested: https://transfer.sh/Hj9dD/youtube-dl-git.tar.gz https://transfer.sh/Hj9dD/youtube-dl-git.tar.gz (52MiB) Here's Debian's mirror btw, somewhat out of date and using the one-commit-per-upstream-release development model (in the upstream branch), so lacking a lot of history: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/youtube-dl https://salsa.debian.org/debian/youtube-dl
- amatecha 6y ago
  The gzipped tarball, was that as of latest commit? just curious if we can consider it the definitive final copy
  - ce4 6y ago
    Youtube-dlc has merged a lot of youtube-dl's outstanding PRs, i remember -dlc being 350 commits/7 behind -dl some 2 or 3 days ago. So definitely base the fork off *-dlc
thesimon 6y ago
I mostly see this video "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj", which should not be copyrighted. Does anyone see the video links in the README claimed by RIAA?
- oefrha 6y ago
  Unfortunately, the claimed videos are in some tests in youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py, e.g. # JS player signature function name containing $ { 'url': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM', 'info_dict': { 'id': 'nfWlot6h_JM', 'ext': 'm4a', 'title': 'Taylor Swift - Shake It Off', 'description': 'md5:307195cd21ff7fa352270fe884570ef0', 'duration': 242, 'uploader': 'TaylorSwiftVEVO', 'uploader_id': 'TaylorSwiftVEVO', 'upload_date': '20140818', }, 'params': { 'youtube_include_dash_manifest': True, 'format': '141/bestaudio[ext=m4a]', }, },
marc_abonce 6y ago
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_/https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pulls https://web.archive.org/web/20201018122643if_/https://github...) If so, that's a real shame, I had an open PR on youtube_dl and even though I still have the code locally, I would've liked to keep the PR conversation as it had some really helpful feedback and a bunch of people that were potentially interested in my feature.
rosywoozlechan 6y ago
I can still find youtube-dl on gitlab, so it's still out there.
Udo 6y ago
That doesn't matter. As development stops, youtube-dl will stop being able to download videos in a matter of months (at best). This is an extremely brittle system that relies on youtube-dl being one step ahead of Youtube at all times. Without further development, the next update to Youtube's site will break the tool. It was really a matter of time. I'm sure most of us were already amazed it lasted this long - and it did because it remained a relatively obscure tool for years. It's also the case that the development of subversive/illegal tools requires a certain amount of subterfuge and sneakiness that the youtube-dl developers apparently weren't ready to engage in. While this is understandable, it also underscores the fact that such tools live on borrowed time (as does, I would argue, general-purpose computing itself).
- angry_octet 6y ago
  While they may have made collaborative development more difficult for the moment, what hasn't changed is the strong motivation from a wide range of technical people to be able to download whatever they can watch in a browser. Something will rise from the ashes.

viro 6y ago

ok so I might just be stupid but how does that link let me clone the repo?.....

29_29 6y ago
click code, download zip
- deleted 6y ago
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wizzwizz4 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/zip/master https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a ZIP containing the repo.
- dheera 6y ago
  Wow I didn't think they'd host ZIP files of every commit of every repo. Where the hell do they have that much hard disk space, and who is funding them?
  - mikeyouse 6y ago
    Archive.org https://archive.org/about/credits.php https://archive.org/about/credits.php
  - qwerty456127 6y ago
    We are funding them together: https://archive.org/donate/ https://archive.org/donate/
    - blitblitblit 6y ago
      The copyright trolls are encircling Archive.org ever since they briefly offered the National Emergency Library. They need all the good vibes we can send them, please donate!
  - jagged-chisel 6y ago
    In a large datacenter. People like you and me, some institutional grants here and there...
  - aspenmayer 6y ago
    Internet Archive seems to be heavily promoting Protocol Labs tech and File Coin specifically on their Twitter feed. I have donated small sums and ran a couple fundraisers via Facebook which benefited Internet Archive. The promo for File Coin is new. They pitch it as building a decentralized AWS, which I'm not sure if File Coin gets you 100% of the way there, but it's a start?
  - slaymaker1907 6y ago
    I give them money every month because their archives are essential to preserving our history. Not to mention, they have really saved my bacon before when I really needed to read some technical blog published a decade ago that has since been lost due to the website being reorganized or even being completely taken down. Even though it takes a lot of bandwidth, I think preserving the source code on GitHub is an invaluable service and hope they continue to do so. I didn't know they were saving the zip file of every release, but I can understand why. It gives you point in time snapshots more easily and who knows how easy it will be to use a git repo from today 100 years from now. ZIP is a much simpler format if it needs to be reimplemented and is used all over the place.
- arno1 6y ago
  It doesn't contain git commit history. Clone a fresh mirror off here https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl.git https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl.git
capableweb 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/zip/master https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a link to zip of master from commit 4eda10499e8db831167062b0e0dbc7d10d34c1f9, which was around 18/10/2020
- soerface 6y ago
  IPFS CID of that zip file: QmaCpz7YkLGaAQxa3kRHGQhhd23RQFHuKPzhHaa2pC3i53
metahost 6y ago
You can use the download zip button instead of cloning.
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yamrzou 6y ago
As another comment pointed[0], there is a mirror on gitee: https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872999
q3k 6y ago
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 rehost. [1] - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o7ilf8kWUQsJ:https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o7ilf8...

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djsumdog 6y ago

I can still install it via pip: pip3 install --user --upgrade youtube-dl So I guess they haven't issued a take down to PyPy yet.

moonchild 6y ago
*PyPi. PyPy is an alternate implementation of python.

kzrdude 6y ago

youtube-dl is in every linux repo, so the source code is widely mirrored and is not going anywhere.

muyuu 6y ago
they need to move development elsewhere though youtube-dl becomes obsolete very quickly as endpoints make changes on their settings and formats, notably youtube.com themselves
- Barrin92 6y ago
  just throw it up on Gitee good luck ever getting through the Chinese court system on a copyright issue
  - fibers 6y ago
    wow this straight up sounds like the best solution by far since who knows if microsoft or google is willing to put up a fight
  - hackerman123469 6y ago
    That is actually one of the best solutions

oefrha 6y ago

You can only download a snapshot from that page. Here's a tarball with the entire git repo in case anyone's interested: https://transfer.sh/Hj9dD/youtube-dl-git.tar.gz https://transfer.sh/Hj9dD/youtube-dl-git.tar.gz (52MiB) Here's Debian's mirror btw, somewhat out of date and using the one-commit-per-upstream-release development model (in the upstream branch), so lacking a lot of history: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/youtube-dl https://salsa.debian.org/debian/youtube-dl

amatecha 6y ago
The gzipped tarball, was that as of latest commit? just curious if we can consider it the definitive final copy
- ce4 6y ago
  Youtube-dlc has merged a lot of youtube-dl's outstanding PRs, i remember -dlc being 350 commits/7 behind -dl some 2 or 3 days ago. So definitely base the fork off *-dlc

thesimon 6y ago

I mostly see this video "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj", which should not be copyrighted. Does anyone see the video links in the README claimed by RIAA?

oefrha 6y ago
Unfortunately, the claimed videos are in some tests in youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py, e.g. # JS player signature function name containing $ { 'url': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM', 'info_dict': { 'id': 'nfWlot6h_JM', 'ext': 'm4a', 'title': 'Taylor Swift - Shake It Off', 'description': 'md5:307195cd21ff7fa352270fe884570ef0', 'duration': 242, 'uploader': 'TaylorSwiftVEVO', 'uploader_id': 'TaylorSwiftVEVO', 'upload_date': '20140818', }, 'params': { 'youtube_include_dash_manifest': True, 'format': '141/bestaudio[ext=m4a]', }, },

marc_abonce 6y ago

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_/https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pulls https://web.archive.org/web/20201018122643if_/https://github...) If so, that's a real shame, I had an open PR on youtube_dl and even though I still have the code locally, I would've liked to keep the PR conversation as it had some really helpful feedback and a bunch of people that were potentially interested in my feature.

rosywoozlechan 6y ago

I can still find youtube-dl on gitlab, so it's still out there.

Udo 6y ago

That doesn't matter. As development stops, youtube-dl will stop being able to download videos in a matter of months (at best). This is an extremely brittle system that relies on youtube-dl being one step ahead of Youtube at all times. Without further development, the next update to Youtube's site will break the tool. It was really a matter of time. I'm sure most of us were already amazed it lasted this long - and it did because it remained a relatively obscure tool for years. It's also the case that the development of subversive/illegal tools requires a certain amount of subterfuge and sneakiness that the youtube-dl developers apparently weren't ready to engage in. While this is understandable, it also underscores the fact that such tools live on borrowed time (as does, I would argue, general-purpose computing itself).

angry_octet 6y ago
While they may have made collaborative development more difficult for the moment, what hasn't changed is the strong motivation from a wide range of technical people to be able to download whatever they can watch in a browser. Something will rise from the ashes.