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Is this open source? Is this just a youtube-dl wrapper? Is this post just an advertisement? "Utubster video downloader supports downloading and converting to M

• rozab 6y ago
  Looks like it's just meant to highlight the futile nature of attempting to take down tools like youtube-dl. Although that doesn't quite work, since it almost certainly uses youtube-dl under the hood
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  • jwilk 6y ago
    Yeah, this smells very much like youtube-dl: $ strings -e l Utubster.exe | grep best bestaudio/best bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=1080]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=1080] bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=480]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=480] bestvideo+bestaudio/best
• JdeBP 6y ago
  It's unlikely to be a youtube-dl wrapper. A quick search of GitHub reveals a wide range of YouTube downloaders, written in languages from C# to Java and wholly independent of youtube-dl. * https://github.com/dqn/youtubedl https://github.com/dqn/youtubedl That said, many of them are clearly hobby projects, badly documented in the main and not at all polished. Whereas this is apparently a commercial closed-source tool with no visible means of income. The fact that Utubster's screenshots show an unadvertised "system repair" program forming part of the supposed video downloader does not inspire confidence.