Youtube-dl Github Repo Taken Down

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Adding to the post @anon54507721 here is the entry on GitHub blog

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They can not hold us back, the future is FOSS!
:rocketa_purple:

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But, but, butā€¦DRM & millions of dollars and lawyers work would be obsoleteā€¦??? :scream:

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Mine just got updated from repos. Yay!

tux-dancing

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Thatā€™s their lottery game they can win or loose, they should know the Game of moneyā€¦

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Hasnā€™t been an update to youtube-dl since 2021-06-06, which is not a great sign for the future of the project.

Not sure what is going on but the lack of activity has been the catalyst for a fork, for anyone interested.

Installation is simple ā€¦

sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

Update is simpler ā€¦

yt-dlp -U

Usage is very similar, check out the page for additions, differences and deprecations.

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Why not even simpler? Installing it from AUR
yay -S yt-dlp-git

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With youtube-dl / yt-dlp I donā€™t use the AUR. Simply no need.

Only a single file and far simpler and quicker to keep up to date using the update flag.

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A really annoying thing about the AUR package yt-dlp-git is that it has pandoc as a dependency, which, in turn, has 10 million haskell dependencies (some 1 GiB of garbage). And why does it need this huge, bloated package? To convert one markdown readme file into a text file! Absolute :poop:

So if you do decide to install it from the AUR, consider installing pandoc-bin first (at least itā€™s just 75 MiB of garbage).

Or do what @otherbarry suggests and just download one small fileā€¦

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Soydevery at itā€™s finest :rofl:

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Can you spell b-o-a-t? erā€¦bloat? :grin: :frog:

Is that a ā€˜bloatloadā€™?

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Itā€™s worse than when I have tacos for dinnerā€¦
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May I suggest - not standing behind?? Does a creature like this have anything in common with a balloonā€™s reactions in case of loss of integrity?? Inquiring mindsā€¦

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I meanā€¦ why does the packager even bother? Install the markdown file, itā€™s not like people canā€™t handle itā€¦

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WRONG!!! :dizzy_face:

What kind of question for soydevs is that?!
Should be more likeā€¦

Why they havenā€™t packed that pandoc deps inside snaps which is launched from docker image of Ubuntu inside of flatpak distributed through npm?! :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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Which is itself running on WSL :crazy_face:

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It seems that there have been some activities on youtube-dl side lately:


[2021-12-14T08:05:06+0100] [ALPM] upgraded youtube-dl (2021.06.06-1 -> 2021.06.06-3)
[2021-12-17T06:46:09+0100] [ALPM] upgraded youtube-dl (2021.06.06-3 -> 2021.12.17-1)
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Thatā€™s just a rebuild for Python 3.10ā€¦ :disappointed:

Thatā€™s a new version! :open_mouth:

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Yes, there was a recent update to youtube-dl.

Also, if you want a nice GUI that works with youtube-dl, TarTube is awesome. You can also use yt-dlp as a backend instead. You can find it in AUR.

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yt-dlp is a very nice fork of youtube-dl ā€“ itā€™s pretty much the only way I watch YouTube videos nowadays.

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