> In an era of fakes and deepfakes, we need tools like youtube-dl more than ever. I've been working on deepfake detection for the past two years. I use pytube3

> In an era of fakes and deepfakes, we need tools like youtube-dl more than ever. I've been working on deepfake detection for the past two years. I use pytube3 and youtube-dl to scrape hours and hours of footage, not just youtube, but cspan, news sites, anything I can get my hands on. I have ~100 hours pulled so far, at multiple encoding rates. Facebook recently changed their API and now the best I can scrape easily is 240p. That's insufficient to detect the artifacts the models need to train on. I can only pull 1/3rd of cspan videos I can watch through the viewer because again, api changes. It's a constant cat and mouse. I'm not exaggerating when I say that if I don't have those wonderful folks out there keeping these tools and test suites up-to-date, this project is massively disadvantaged. I don't have any public release assets at the moment, but you can read about Siwei Lyu and Hany Farid, who are leading the charge in deepfake detection. http://www.cs.albany.edu/~lsw/ http://www.cs.albany.edu/~lsw/ https://futurism.com/expert-online-disinfo-covid-black-lives-matter https://futurism.com/expert-online-disinfo-covid-black-lives...