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So does anyone know what happened to youtube-dl? Development seems to have just abruptly ceased with no explanation.

• dwrodri 5y ago
  I wouldn't be surprised if the drama surrounding the DMCA takedown issued on the main git repository scared away a lot of contributors. Here's some coverage from the EFF, in case you missed it: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-reinstates-youtube-dl-after-riaas-abuse-dmca https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-reinstates-yout...
  • arp242 5y ago
    Quite the opposite; number of contributions increased: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/contributors https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/contributors Just seems a case of the same what usually happens: main author loses interest, has other stuff to do, etc. and no one really takes up the slack.
    • Mathnerd314 5y ago
      Also there are a lot of PRs that got ignored. A fair amount of the stuff in yt-dlp is just merging PRs from yt-dl.