Since yt-dlp doesn’t work anymore, is there a replacement?

  • Xanza@lemm.ee
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    23 hours ago

    Since yt-dlp doesn’t work anymore

    Of course it still works. I used it a minute before I posted this.

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      23 hours ago

      I think I read awhile ago YouTube is testing a change that renders programs like yt-dlp completely useless, but I’m fuzzy on the detail

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    yt-dlp supports passing on cookies from your browser, oncw you’ve logged in at least once.

    There’s also GrayJay on Android.

  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    It still works for now. I’m in emergency hoard-shit-for-no-good-reason mode

    Are you having issues? Because I’ve covered almost every error in my own attempts

    • dirtycrow@programming.dev
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      1 day ago

      I watched some old Minecraft let’s play a while back and I think it’s gone forever now. Really wish I had somehow downloaded a copy before it just bleeped out.

      • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, that’s my biggest concern as well. For example LetsPlay. They had a controversy in which one primary Minecraft player was fired and removed from the group, and I think a couple of their videos were scrubbed, even though the vast majority of content in the video was good entertainment.

        There are also copyright and DMCA claims ruining any YouTuber’s video, entertainment value and monetisation, including Google bending the knee to corporations that don’t actually have the right to claim any content… There are a lot of reasons for wanting to archive the internet, mostly state/corporate overreach

    • matey@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      2 days ago

      I get 403 when I try to use it. I normally use ytdl-sub and youtubedl-material, but those stopped working so I tried doing it just straight from the command line, and it doesn’t work anywhere.

  • bigDottee@geekroom.tech
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    2 days ago

    I’ve been using pinchflat which is essentially a front end for yt-dlp and it’s been working fine for me. Mind you, i have all YouTube traffic from pinchflat running through a vpn to a different country so but that’s because that system also sails the high seas 🏴‍☠️😂