yt-dlp appreciation thread

[Osama Bin Laden]

god i fucking love this program so much

it's overpowered and you can basically download anything with it

 

[Kiwi Andy]

I will mald hard if kikes ever shut this down

 

[Avenue]

I once visited a paywalled news blog which refused to show you any content behind the paywall, had multiple fullscreen popups and one of those annoying "you are using adblock" scripts. Threw the entire URL into yt-dlp and it somehow instantly found the m3u8 playlist and started downloading, 2 minutes later I had my news vid.
10/10 would throw random sites into yt-dlp again.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

I once visited a paywalled news blog which refused to show you any content behind the paywall, had multiple fullscreen popups and one of those annoying "you are using adblock" scripts. Threw the entire URL into yt-dlp and it somehow instantly found the m3u8 playlist and started downloading, 2 minutes later I had my news vid.
10/10 would throw random sites into yt-dlp again.

for the longest, i couldn't download twitter videos without using cookies and i threw a random twitter link thinking it was youtube and it downloaded it straight from the link

based

 

[2x tan my beloved]

can agree, it also works on Chinese video hosting sites which is amazing considering how strongly encrypted they can be. fuck you ccp i will pirate the courses

 

[Peanut Butter in Peril]

It's also got Sponsor Block integrated into it so you can say "Fuck you!" to all the sponsor niggers and the slop they shill. It's basically how I get all my podcasts these days.

 

[Dill]

There is a GUI front for yt-dlp called Tarttube not sure if its malware but I have been using it for a couple months

Also theres this software called Hydrus Network for imageboards

 

[Johnny Apple Sneed]

I will mald hard if kikes ever shut this down

just the thought of it stresses me out.

 

[Admiral Throbnelius]

It's one of the best archive tools of all time.

 

[Squishie PP]

I will mald hard if kikes ever shut this down

They can implement countermeasures on their end, such as the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" thing that Youtube has been doing lately, but there is no realistic way for them to shut down the development of the software itself.

That is the beauty of open-source software. It can outlive the institution/entity that initially created it, and therefore has built-in resilience against legal action.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

They can implement countermeasures on their end, such as the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" thing that Youtube has been doing lately, but there is no realistic way for them to shut down the development of the software itself.

If they can't manage to stop adblock, they will never kill yt-dlp. There will always been a team/or a person with severe autism that is willing to counteract jewtube

 

[Squishie PP]

If they can't manage to stop adblock, they will never kill yt-dlp. There will always been a team/or a person with severe autism that is willing to counteract jewtube

The only options left for them are to either paywall the entire site, or at least force mandatory google account logins. I suspect both of these will happen at some point in the very near future.

Thankfully, yt-dlp will still work for a lot of other sites too.

 

[Snorky]

there is no realistic way for them to shut down the development of the software itself.

The RIAA tried this very thing with the upstream repository, and that didn't go well and arguably led to the project becoming even more well-known.

 

[Xenu]

Poor Invidious instances getting taken down but at least yt-dlp still works, sad because I enjoyed using FreeTube.

 

[PFM]

just the thought of it stresses me out.

yt-dlp exists because yt-dl was shut down.

 

[seri0us]

yt-dlp exists because yt-dl was shut down.

yt-dlp existed to merge sponsorblock and other plugins into youtube-dl
a year after the takedown attempt the youtube-dl devs pulled a black dad and disappeared for a while which led to yt-dlp's dominant popularity

 

[geckogoy]

yt-dlp existed to merge sponsorblock and other plugins into youtube-dl
a year after the takedown attempt the youtube-dl devs pulled a black dad and disappeared for a while which led to yt-dlp's dominant popularity

Interestingly its a fairly direct example of open source delivering on its supposed upsides (allowing someone to rapidly pick up the torch)

 

[Eleventyish]

It doesn't download youtube videos for me, got anything that does on desktop?

 

[Kiwi Andy]

Freetube is also really good if you want to use subscriptions/playlists without being forced to use google accounts btw.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Yt-dlp and mpv.
Mpv can be an image viewer, a manga reader, a music player. and a webm maker with yt-dlp, Mpv can watch streams and view Youtube without ever visiting their shitty website.