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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by p2detar on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:11PM (#24875370)
Or they could have had the YouTube links in another file, not part of the repo, and only download and parse it when tests are run.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by kc-rush2049 on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:17PM (#24875772)
Best thing would be for them to just upload their own test videos with the various formats and test against those.
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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by foerbert on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:01PM (#24876016)
Most of this comment chain has been about why they couldn't do that. They were testing against special features that are only available to select partners.
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