Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
by JdeBP on Saturday October 24, 2020 @06:16AM
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I have wondered why Real Player never seemed, over a period of years (some years ago, at least), to need updates to cope with downloading from YouTube, and yet youtube-dl seemed to need regular updates every few months.
It's an architectural difference, but it is unclear what it is. It cannot be because RealPlayer Downloader is a browser extension that provides a "download" button within the WWW page itself and youtube-dl works from URLs given on a command line, because other YouTube downloaders like iTube are also able to download a video given only a YouTube page URL.
Or maybe it isn't a difference nowadays. This was some years ago. But there does not seem to be much talk about having to update these downloaders frequently like youtube-dl.
* https://www.real.com/uk/features ("download web videos from popular sites like YouTube and Vimeo")
It's an architectural difference, but it is unclear what it is. It cannot be because RealPlayer Downloader is a browser extension that provides a "download" button within the WWW page itself and youtube-dl works from URLs given on a command line, because other YouTube downloaders like iTube are also able to download a video given only a YouTube page URL.
* https://itube.aimersoft.com/free-mac-youtube-downloader.html ("free download YouTube videos to Mac in a Click.")
Or maybe it isn't a difference nowadays. This was some years ago. But there does not seem to be much talk about having to update these downloaders frequently like youtube-dl.