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i wonder how it would work out if a bot used youtube-dl to snarf audio tracks. it seems YT-dl has had its fight on the hill with google and won out for the tim
by rolph 5y ago
i wonder how it would work out if a bot used youtube-dl to snarf audio tracks.
it seems YT-dl has had its fight on the hill with google and won out for the time being, its possible a discord bot using YT-dl might wake a sleeping bear
- stnmtn 5y agoThis is exactly what I made last night so I hope not!
- rchaud 5y agoThat would be awful. Youtube-dl feels like Slsk to me. As long as its under-the-radar enough, the big dogs will let it live. That it's a CLI tool is enough to deter most users. If somebody creates a GUI app for it however, I imagine it would be snuffed out quickly.
- thomastjeffery 5y agoyoutube-dl already has a gui app.
- rchaud 5y agoI wasn't aware of that. I know about NewPipe which is almost certainly using the API. But not a desktop app.
- mod50ack 5y agoNewPipe isn't using YouTube-DL. There's a GUI for desktop platforms, and DVD on Android. They know about it plenty. It's still not going anywhere until and unless they add DRM to YouTube. Which I could see happening in a few years.
- notamy 5y ago> i wonder how it would work out if a bot used youtube-dl to snarf audio tracks. youtube-dl + ffmpeg was the "traditional" way of doing it, but it didn't scale very well. These days, the majority of bots use lavaplayer[0] based solutions like lavalink[1] to stream audio. There's also YouTube IP bans to be concerned about. Most bots get around it by rotating through blocks of IPv6 addresses. [0] https://github.com/sedmelluq/lavaplayer https://github.com/sedmelluq/lavaplayer [1] https://github.com/freyacodes/Lavalink https://github.com/freyacodes/Lavalink
- izacus 5y agoIt would pretty much guarantee that YouTube would kill youtube-dl access. The music content industry is very aggressive with using legal pressure to make sure they get their dime.