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Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by habibur on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:48PM (#26848810)
youtube-dl's main feature is its frequent updates, as soon as sites change their api/auth or anything. And that a happens pretty regularly. Therefore say youtube-dl from last month can't download videos from youtube this month, unless you update it.

Thus having a copy only saves you for a few weeks. Then it will start to fail on all sites, one by one.

Relevant. Youtube changed something that broke youtube-dl the day after it was removed from github. It couldn't update as the update source was from github.

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Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by PhantomGremlin on Saturday April 17, 2021 @10:17PM (#26849255)
youtube-dl's main feature is its frequent updates

Ah, yeah, now they do frequent updates. But here's a fork that I switched to for a while because the maintainers of the original youtube-dl were slacking off. :) https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc

I can't believe the level of entitlement my comment exhibits. :)

My attitude (a bit tongue in cheek) is probably why many open source authors abandon their products. Too much work, no thanks, lots of bitching.

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Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by Arcorann on Sunday April 18, 2021 @02:02AM (#26850167)
youtube-dlc has been inactive since December 2020. I use yt-dlp instead: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Not only does it keep reasonable pace with original youtube-dl, it also incorporates several improvements from forks (detailed on the page).

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