Re:“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:26AM
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The startup time for netcat is less than for yt-dl/yt-dlp.
Plus I can request multiple video pages over a single TCP connection with netcat.
For example, in a single TCP connection, with a list of 30 videoIds, I can get initial sig and n values for 413 videoIds. No wait time for netcat to decompress or startup. Using netcat is quite fast. Then I have utilties written in C to extract URLs from stdin. As such, all I need is a utility to update the sig and n values in the download URLs to make them fast ones instead of throttled.
How long would it take to get sig and n values for 30 videoIds let alone 413 with yt-dl or yt-dlp over a single TCP connection. The startup time for yt-dl/yt-dlp plus the time waiting for the downloading of each video page makes it much, much slower. These are "do-everything" scripts that are as a result quite inflexible.
Plus I can request multiple video pages over a single TCP connection with netcat.
For example, in a single TCP connection, with a list of 30 videoIds, I can get initial sig and n values for 413 videoIds. No wait time for netcat to decompress or startup. Using netcat is quite fast. Then I have utilties written in C to extract URLs from stdin. As such, all I need is a utility to update the sig and n values in the download URLs to make them fast ones instead of throttled.
How long would it take to get sig and n values for 30 videoIds let alone 413 with yt-dl or yt-dlp over a single TCP connection. The startup time for yt-dl/yt-dlp plus the time waiting for the downloading of each video page makes it much, much slower. These are "do-everything" scripts that are as a result quite inflexible.