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OK, I don't get it, at all. I have tried to paste random URLs and they all return "Offliberating this URL is not possible yet." What is this for? Am I missing

by runn1ng 12y ago

OK, I don't get it, at all. I have tried to paste random URLs and they all return "Offliberating this URL is not possible yet." What is this for? Am I missing something? edit: Now I pasted this link http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/even-as-marijuana-gains-ground-some-tightly-enforce-laws/2014/06/21/2d0f8230-d21d-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html?hpid=z1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/even-as-marijuana-gai... and it returned links to two random PDFs from the article. I still have no idea what is this for. I guess it's not for me...? edit2: Oh, now I got it. It's for ripping videos from youtube. I guess.

bshimmin 12y ago
It seems to let you download MP4s from YouTube moderately easily (I determined this from the node-offliberty package, in the comments below). Beyond that, I have no idea. I think this could be a candidate for the worst explained and executed web site to hit the frontpage of HN in a good while.
- runn1ng 12y ago
  Yeah, I found that out too, by googling the name of the website. It probably works for ripping videos from other websites, too. I have no idea why is this at the frontpage. edit: yep, it works for ripping the videos from wapost too. pasting http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/national/shiite-turkmen-villagers-near-baghdad-flee-to-kurdish-controlled-areas/2014/06/21/e827f2fa-f95f-11e3-9a6b-d701527e9d5d_video.html?hpid=z5 http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/national/shiite-turkmen... links to the URL of the mp4 file. Well, I guess it's kinda useful.