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Because of my unusual conditions, youtube-dl is especially useful to me. youtube-dl.org seems to indicate it's down. I can't download the latest version. Are there alternatives?
Hello my good friend RT!
Thank you for finally replying my friend request!
Youtube-dl is not on gihub any, but there is no alternative for it, you must use youtube-dl, but it's very secret now! I send you a PM.
The site is still there and the source is still available. Since it's Python3 anyway the source is all that matters.
M$ is playing at something with youtube-dl specifically and with its recent control over GitHub. Those projects which where on GitHub and did not have the sense to move quickly to either self-hosting or something like src.ht are screwed. As for the DMCA takedown request, it's unfounded but M$ does not care. Nor does the RIAA, since there are no penalties for false requests nor even a filing fee.
If Github/Microsoft blocks that repo, it should not be hard to move to another platform even now. However, I would think that any other platform for which the DMCA is relevant will have to act in the same way as Github.
By the way, at least one fork seems to remove code that the RIAA complains about and is still live on Github.
You could of course do what I've done on occasion, and take a screen-recording of the video while it's playing in the browser. I do it this way since most movies & similar stuff I want copies of I track down via torrent...it's only odd tutorials, or short vid-clips of interest I tend to want from YouTube.
The old XVidcap is particularly good at doing this, though it does result in rather large, uncompressed .mpeg files. Vokoscreen would probably work just as well.
Mike.
Last edited by Mike_Walsh; 11-14-2020 at 08:22 AM.
Google appropriately and you should find that there are more ways to get it than ever before. I've installed it in an estimated 40 Linux installations over the past week via the distro's package management system.
Before I found out what youtube-dl does (thanks, Ondoho), I had no idea we had a program to record Youtube videos and/or audio. I thought it wouldn't exist because too many people would use it to steal copyrighted music. (I'm using it to download audio from videos of my church services.)
Last edited by newbiesforever; 11-15-2020 at 08:28 AM.
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For the past month or so, I've been using a really good youtube downloader (and easier to use than youtube-dl) add-in for Firefox called "Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express" - if you use Firefox, give it a look - it puts a button just below the video that gives you a selection of available quality options and a download now button.
I don't know if this add-in is available for other browsers, though, and I don't think it will do batch downloads (though I haven't ever attempted that).
It pays to support the EFF (I'm not uncritical of them, but they clearly delivered here).
The RIAA's claims of circumventing encryption were - as I thought - bogus technobabble.
The article above has a short explanation. The EFF's letter to github has a slightly longer but still non-technical explanation. I recommend it in its entirety. The link is from this github blog - of course they're shamelessly overplaying the "we're the good guys" theme, but I'm still glad.
The article above has a short explanation. The EFF's letter to github has a slightly longer but still non-technical explanation. I recommend it in its entirety. The link is from this github blog - of course they're shamelessly overplaying the "we're the good guys" theme, but I'm still glad.
The EFF still comes up short on calling out M$ for failing act right away and not doing anything until massive, global pressure forced them to.
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