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As soon as I get that, I'll be having yt-dlp very handy.

Etheryte 3y ago
While that works for now, if Google ever took interest in it I think it would be pretty straightforward to break any libraries like that. If you change either the endpoints or the model or etc with any reasonable frequency the library authors couldn't possibly keep up. Google can orchestrate their rollouts so their things always keep working while the library users are always in for a surprise. This is one of those things that could also be automated and put on a cron if one was really into it. In general though, I think for the time being this is luckily not a big enough of a dot on their radar for them to care.
- dewey 3y ago
  It's usually not that easy for companies to move that fast as there's a lot of devices with YouTube apps that are still actively used but not updated frequently. Think old Android devices or Smart TVs.
- a257 3y ago
  > this is luckily not a big enough of a dot on their radar for them to care. Funnily enough, Google doesn't allow yt-downloader extensions on the Chrome web store. They will cite you rule #4, and send you a rejection letter for "Facilitating unauthorized access to or download of copyrighted content or media, specifically, YouTube." The irony of course is that they allow downloader extensions for other websites. That they specifically prohibit youtube downloaders while allowing downloaders for almost any other website smells suspiciously like anti-competitive behavior to me. On the other hand, Firefox's addon store is free from these restrictions, so you can find tons of yt download extensions there.
- nvm0n2 3y ago
  They've already been experimenting with that for months. Using yt-dlp can get your IP address blocked: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7860 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7860
isoprophlex 3y ago
I have something ridiculously overengineered for this. An ios shortcut that you can call on a webpage, that puts the webpage url onto a queue; a worker on my home server pulls these urls from the queue and calls yt-dlp on em, downloading the urls to Plex. Mainly used for allowing my kids to view some content I can screen for appropriateness, that also gets rid of the ridiculous ads. A thing yet to do is to use a LLM to automatically categorize these downloads into folders

While that works for now, if Google ever took interest in it I think it would be pretty straightforward to break any libraries like that. If you change either the endpoints or the model or etc with any reasonable frequency the library authors couldn't possibly keep up. Google can orchestrate their rollouts so their things always keep working while the library users are always in for a surprise. This is one of those things that could also be automated and put on a cron if one was really into it. In general though, I think for the time being this is luckily not a big enough of a dot on their radar for them to care.

dewey 3y ago
It's usually not that easy for companies to move that fast as there's a lot of devices with YouTube apps that are still actively used but not updated frequently. Think old Android devices or Smart TVs.
a257 3y ago
> this is luckily not a big enough of a dot on their radar for them to care. Funnily enough, Google doesn't allow yt-downloader extensions on the Chrome web store. They will cite you rule #4, and send you a rejection letter for "Facilitating unauthorized access to or download of copyrighted content or media, specifically, YouTube." The irony of course is that they allow downloader extensions for other websites. That they specifically prohibit youtube downloaders while allowing downloaders for almost any other website smells suspiciously like anti-competitive behavior to me. On the other hand, Firefox's addon store is free from these restrictions, so you can find tons of yt download extensions there.
nvm0n2 3y ago
They've already been experimenting with that for months. Using yt-dlp can get your IP address blocked: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7860 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7860

isoprophlex 3y ago

I have something ridiculously overengineered for this. An ios shortcut that you can call on a webpage, that puts the webpage url onto a queue; a worker on my home server pulls these urls from the queue and calls yt-dlp on em, downloading the urls to Plex. Mainly used for allowing my kids to view some content I can screen for appropriateness, that also gets rid of the ridiculous ads. A thing yet to do is to use a LLM to automatically categorize these downloads into folders