> he most popular one is yt-dlp (a fork of youtube-dl) programmed in Python, but it includes its own custom JavaScript interpreter to transform the n parameter.

> he most popular one is yt-dlp (a fork of youtube-dl) programmed in Python, but it includes its own custom JavaScript interpreter to transform the n parameter. ah i remember this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793061 i confess i still dont really understand why they had to make this but i'd love to hear the story behind it