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youtube-dl's main feature is its frequent updates, as soon as sites change their api/auth or anything. And that a happens pretty regularly. Therefore say youtub
by habibur 6y ago
youtube-dl's main feature is its frequent updates, as soon as sites change their api/auth or anything. And that a happens pretty regularly. Therefore say youtube-dl from last month can't download videos from youtube this month, unless you update it.
Thus having a copy only saves you for a few weeks. Then it will start to fail on all sites, one by one.
Relevant. Youtube changed something that broke youtube-dl the day after it was removed from github. It couldn't update as the update source was from github.
- PhantomGremlin 6y agoyoutube-dl's main feature is its frequent updates Ah, yeah, now they do frequent updates. But here's a fork that I switched to for a while because the maintainers of the original youtube-dl were slacking off. :) https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc I can't believe the level of entitlement my comment exhibits. :) My attitude (a bit tongue in cheek) is probably why many open source authors abandon their products. Too much work, no thanks, lots of bitching.
- Arcorann 6y agoyoutube-dlc has been inactive since December 2020. I use yt-dlp instead: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Not only does it keep reasonable pace with original youtube-dl, it also incorporates several improvements from forks (detailed on the page).