Here's a git mirror of the entire repo history up the the latest commit hash that I'm aware of. Compare against the commit hash on Google Webcache [1] for safety:

    git clone https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl

Clone, verify and rehost.

[1] - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o7ilf8...

As another comment pointed[0], there is a mirror on gitee: https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872999

https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a link to zip of master from commit 4eda10499e8db831167062b0e0dbc7d10d34c1f9, which was around 18/10/2020

IPFS CID of that zip file: QmaCpz7YkLGaAQxa3kRHGQhhd23RQFHuKPzhHaa2pC3i53

https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a ZIP containing the repo.

Wow I didn't think they'd host ZIP files of every commit of every repo.

Where the hell do they have that much hard disk space, and who is funding them?

We are funding them together: https://archive.org/donate/

The copyright trolls are encircling Archive.org ever since they briefly offered the National Emergency Library. They need all the good vibes we can send them, please donate!

I give them money every month because their archives are essential to preserving our history. Not to mention, they have really saved my bacon before when I really needed to read some technical blog published a decade ago that has since been lost due to the website being reorganized or even being completely taken down.

Even though it takes a lot of bandwidth, I think preserving the source code on GitHub is an invaluable service and hope they continue to do so. I didn't know they were saving the zip file of every release, but I can understand why. It gives you point in time snapshots more easily and who knows how easy it will be to use a git repo from today 100 years from now. ZIP is a much simpler format if it needs to be reimplemented and is used all over the place.

Internet Archive seems to be heavily promoting Protocol Labs tech and File Coin specifically on their Twitter feed. I have donated small sums and ran a couple fundraisers via Facebook which benefited Internet Archive. The promo for File Coin is new. They pitch it as building a decentralized AWS, which I'm not sure if File Coin gets you 100% of the way there, but it's a start?

In a large datacenter. People like you and me, some institutional grants here and there...

Archive.org

https://archive.org/about/credits.php

It doesn't contain git commit history. Clone a fresh mirror off here https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl.git

You can use the download zip button instead of cloning.

click code, download zip