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Re:Youtube-dl GitHub Template by TomJansen on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:59AM (#24886300)
I think this is best strategy. However, how would you download plugins then? Make a whole package manager for handling youtube-dl plugins?
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Re:Youtube-dl GitHub Template by Retr0spectrum on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:00AM (#24886315)
That would be ideal, however, you could just re-use the existing `pip` infrastructure.

e.g. pip install wvdl-plugin-youtube

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Re:Youtube-dl GitHub Template by Wowfunhappy on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:12AM (#24886407)
Notably, youtube-dl is currently offered as a static binary that doesn't require Python to be installed. It would be a shame to loose that.
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Re:Youtube-dl GitHub Template by Retr0spectrum on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:14AM (#24886432)
Presumably that's a blob that bundles the python runtime, pip dependencies, and ytdl itself? You could do the same thing, with the various "plugins" added to the pip dependency list.
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Re:Youtube-dl GitHub Template by Wowfunhappy on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:20AM (#24886476)
...good point, not sure what I was thinking there. I'm pretty sure it's just pyinstaller, which can certainly handle bundling dependencies.
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