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I've been downloading YouTube videos for the past few years. Not randomly, from specific channels I select. Today I passed 12100 videos. It's getting harder. Y
by LeoPanthera 1y ago
I've been downloading YouTube videos for the past few years. Not randomly, from specific channels I select. Today I passed 12100 videos.
It's getting harder. YouTube keeps making yt-dlp work worse. (And I started when it was youtube-dl!) I limit my downloader script to no more than 2 videos at a time, every 3 hours, hopefully in order not to trip any rate limits. All good so far.
- PUSH_AX 1y agoIsn’t an official downloading functionality part of their premium offering? If you’re a power user perhaps it’s worth just paying.
- Barbing 1y agoOn mobile (iOS), it requires maintaining a subscription… and, once a month at least, internet connection.
- LeoPanthera 1y agoI am a premium subscriber, but "downloaded" videos are trapped inside the app. You can't actually get them out.
- PUSH_AX 1y agoI see I had no idea.
- fluoridation 1y agoWow, what garbage. Good thing to know. It was the single thing that appealed to me about that service.
- totetsu 1y agoWhen I try to capture a few friends videos of events I had run from instagram stories with yt-dlp, I get nice friendly warning that to avoid my account being restricted or deleted i should stop using tools.
- input_sh 1y agoI use a browser extension that simply gives me the download button in the interface and haven't experienced any such warnings: https://github.com/TheKonka/instagram-download-browser-extension https://github.com/TheKonka/instagram-download-browser-exten... Thought you might find it helpful.
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoHave you considered sharing them somehow? I always thought yt-dlp would end up p2p
- LeoPanthera 1y agoSince many of the channels are monetized, my personal policy is only to upload videos to the Internet Archive if the original goes offline. Otherwise, it's better if people support the original channel by watching them on YouTube.
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoSure, but by that logic you’re saying piracy* in general is bad, but when you pirate* the video it’s okay. And if I pirate* the video the same way it’s okay. But if we cross share it’s bad, while the only real difference is via this route , google is paying for more bandwidth and yt-dlp becomes less effective because it’s redundantly executed at scale. *pirate, for lack of a better term. I couldn’t give a fuck what people call it.
- LeoPanthera 1y agoI dispute that I'm pirating them. I'm still watching them on YouTube, I'm just also archiving a copy. They're still getting my view money.
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoAre you watching them in a browser on YouTube.com or are you downloading the stream and watching locally?