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Hacker News new | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit login Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos (github.com) 314 points by axiomdata316 8 hours ago | hide | past | web | favorite | 132 comments add comment EvanAnderson 6 hours ago [-] I feel like the first rule of youtube-dl is not to talk about youtube-dl. I keep expecting Google (and all the other sites it works on) to start taking active measures to disable it. At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos. reply weq 5 hours ago [-] 12 years ago i built google video downloader as a way to help me learn C#. it took about a month after the release for google to defeat my basic scraping. I did a few iterations to circumvent their changes, and then they changed tact, and erased the project from google. they only let it back into the search results after i stopped maintaining it. https://sourceforge.net/projects/gvdownloader/files/stats/ti... reply placebo 23 minutes ago [-] I think command line utilities will usually be the last to receive active counter measures as they are generally considered to be used only by geeks which constitute a negligible percent of consumers. reply self_awareness 3 minutes ago [-] Youtube-dl has lots of GUI frontends and is embedded in easy to use Android apps. reply RachelF 48 minutes ago [-] Not everyone has fast enough bandwidth to watch live videos. Many people rely on downloaders to actually watch the video. reply naibafo 17 minutes ago [-] But they don't download the ads, so I doubt they matter very much as far as google is concerned reply cllckkrr 6 hours ago [-] This is the classic cat-and-mouse game. We are pretty good at it by now. reply Benjamin_Dobell 2 hours ago [-] I don't know. Netflix is doing a pretty good job shutting down VPN proxying. Yes, I know there are some providers that still work... Shhhh! However, it's a lot easier for Netflix to blacklist an IP (or an entire IP range) than it is for a provider to setup a whole new proxy - likely connected via a residential ISP. reply self_awareness 1 minute ago [-] But they're not doing a good job in blacklisting debit card providers (providers that let you generate your own unique debit card number and start a free trial on this new card, resulting in using the service for free) or banning shared accounts (i.e. 4 people meet on the internet only for the purposes of buying one account). reply pavs 2 hours ago [-] VPN connections are relatively easier to block. reply mrmondo 1 hour ago [-] Could not agree more, especially as it’s a tool I use multiple times a day and I don’t think it’s ever failed me. reply shmerl 5 hours ago [-] That would be sad, but I'll ditch Youtube for good if they'll introduce this garbage. reply orev 5 hours ago [-] YouTube has the network effect just like every other big provider. You can’t ditch it unless the content you want to see has decided to move elsewhere. reply jsilence 2 hours ago [-] And this is why we should encourage content creators to cross publish their videos on peertube/steemit etc. reply rich-w-big-ego 2 hours ago [-] Or we should regulate them, maybe Trump would consider it. It certainly would not cause any sort of economic harm to regulate companies that sit on cash reserves in the hundred billions. reply AndrewUnmuted 5 hours ago [-] Important and desirable media is almost always available from more than one source. If not, then Sometimes, it's as simple as asking the producer to upload to your preferred streaming endpoint. reply DoctorOetker 4 hours ago [-] Your comment made me think of a web portal for uploading videos, so the content creator uploads once, and selects what content platforms he wishes to share it with. The people behinnd the portal could have a sign-up page so that any platforms that wish to host a non-exclusive copy can sign up in order for uploaders to be able to select them as well. This could potentially cause the portal hosters (internet archive?) to suffer a lot of upload, but then there are no legal troubles whatsoever (assuming the uploader had the copyrights) in preserving or migrating content. The big networks might refuse to sign up (to prevent such a portal and hence competing content networks from getting a foot in the door regarding network effect), or make it hard to have the single portal entity mediate the uploading to them in the name of the content owner, but in a sense it is not more cat-and-mouse game, but a differently placed one: at upload instead of download. reply Nition 2 hours ago [-] Tunecore does a similar thing for music: https://www.tunecore.com/sell-your-music-online You upload your music, and they put it on the various services for a fee. Including YouTube if you select it. reply huckyaus 4 hours ago [-] What constitutes "important and desirable media" is extremely personal and subjective, and the producer will not always be available to respond to your request. Here's an example of something that is very important and desirable to me but doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_p2B8ReqE reply allenz 21 minutes ago [-] I agree with you overall, but the album actually does exist here: https://yadi.sk/d/SMKn5Af43LitRc. At 320 kbps, it's a little higher quality than YouTube. By the way, Diamond Harbour is fantastic. What other music do you love? reply p1necone 3 hours ago [-] You must have a pretty narrow definition of 'important and desirable', almost all of the content I consume on Youtube is not available elsewhere afaik. reply shawn 4 hours ago [-] I don't think pewdiepie uploads elsewhere, and his videos are important and desirable for 63 million people. reply Wingman4l7 4 hours ago [-] It is possible that this is true only insofar that they are readily available. If Youtube becomes difficult for his fans to access for some reason, they may find that they can live without his content. reply mrmondo 1 hour ago [-] Seconded. YouTube while it may contain a lot of video of content is really actually pretty poor product IMO. Lots of buffering, lots of ads, the apps have terrible UX as does the website and now that google is becoming less and less trustful (some would say always were but just becoming more evil with more data) I welcome video content hosted elsewhere. I really like Vimeo not just for the performance and video quality but I also find the interface quite good to use, it would probably need some adjustments if it were to take on the amount of content YouTube has. reply userbinator 6 hours ago [-] While I agree with you in principle (and have used a very similar setup for many years), I don't think HN is pro-DRM/IP enough to worry. At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos. ...which will be cracked within days if not hours. reply majewsky 25 minutes ago [-] > which will be cracked within days if not hours. Netflix requires an EME module since quite some time, and I'm not aware of any successful cracks. reply mxfh 7 hours ago [-] Since letting kids alone on youtube, is clusterf* of a nightmare, this is a godsend tool to archive approved channels to a local media server. This config file (with separate channel-list- and archive-files) template found here, has proven quite useful to me combined with some minimal batch job: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/858ny5/my_yout... reply robbrown451 6 hours ago [-] Another option is to embed youtube videos on your own web page (hosted locally or whatever). You don't need to download the actual videos, the ads tend to be banners (not ones that make you wait to view it). Works great for my 4 year old. reply kuzimoto 2 hours ago [-] Only thing about embedding is that videos can be removed at any time for any reason (or no reason at all). Plus having the downloaded videos make it easy to load up on an iPad or similar device for offline viewing on long trips where internet access may not be guaranteed. reply triangleman 4 hours ago [-] Oh, nice one! reply ljk 1 hour ago [-] youtube might not even be the worst offender these days https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/8vs5na/what_kids_re... disclaimer: i did not watch the video, but guessed from reading the reddit comments reply skunkworker 6 hours ago [-] Elsagate is the creepiest thing I've seen on youtube in awhile. reply castlecrasher2 4 hours ago [-] This is really useful, thanks. Got a nearly three-year old and I've been terrified of the weird stuff on youtube. reply bitmapbrother 52 minutes ago [-] >Since letting kids alone on youtube, is clusterf* of a nightmare, Could you have caked on more hyperbole? Yes, let's just let kids search the Internet and see what they come up with. reply salvar 23 minutes ago [-] I wouldn't call it hyperbole at all once you learn about Elsagate. reply nachtigall 1 hour ago [-] The strength of youtube-dl is that – contradictionary to its name – there are `extractors` for almost every streaming, video, tv or radio website: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext..