Re:Youtube-dl is possibly dead
by dTal on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:46AM
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2 months is a long time in youtube-dl world. It's not really a "software project" in the traditional sense, where you can stop working on it once it's "done". It's more of a "social project", a focal point for the required ongoing activity necessary to keep sites working. Youtube-dl without daily commits is useless.
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Re:Youtube-dl is possibly dead
by bittercynic on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:57AM
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I'm currently using it to download a youtube video. If it still works for it's main function, maybe it's just not a high priority project until something breaks?
It's actually already broken. If you try to download more than 3-16 videos (the limit is not clear), you start to be rate limited to 300 kbps or so. According to Reddit this is fixed in a fork called yt-dlp
To be honest that sounds fine. You're presumably downloading it to watch it offline, the download speed isn't really material as long as it finishes eventually
youtube-dl is also used by video players like mpv for live streaming. In this case, 70 kbps is completely unusable for the vast majority of videos.
Re:Youtube-dl is possibly dead
by geerlingguy on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:21PM
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One other workaround is to use '-F' to get a list of formats, and choose one of the non-default formats to download. This seems to work for me.
Re:Youtube-dl is possibly dead
by banana_giraffe on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:04PM
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Primary function, perhaps, but it's used for lots of websites that aren't YouTube, and some of those websites have broken.
There are open pull requests and/or bugs for many websites that aren't being approved. This is rather unusual for youtube-dl, it normally had a release ever two weeks or so.