Re:Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks
by wanderingmind on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @01:09AM
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Might be a good reason to use proxy to connect to YT servers.
Re:Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks
by nihey on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @10:07AM
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Thanks for the warning, I'm using yt-dlp so there is this risk that someday it will simply stop working. I'm currently always caching downloaded videos so that I will not have to download the same video more than once.
If we come to that, I'll definitely need to use a proxy service to work around it.
I've used ProxyMesh in the past for some WebScraping products (https://proxymesh.com/) and have been able to keep everything working for years so it may be a good workaround.
I assume you use yt-dlp for this? In that case, look out for suddenly having your server IP banned by YouTube. I was running yt-dlp on a server for a long time (many months) and then one day it stopped working. And I wasn’t even auto-downloading videos. They were all manually triggered by me, to save copies of videos that I liked. So in total I was downloading far fewer videos on the server than the number of videos I was watching on my phone via the YouTube app on the phone.