PyMiniRacer
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| PyMiniRacer | youtube-dl | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1,082 | |
| 692 | 128,460 | |
| 2.9% | 0.9% | |
| 3.7 | 8.5 | |
| 5 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| ISC License | The Unlicense |
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PyMiniRacer
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YouTube-dl has a JavaScript interpreter written in 870 lines of Python
Embedding V8 can work quite well: https://github.com/sqreen/PyMiniRacer
You probably have to emulate some of the DOM, but you can interact directly with whatever obfuscated/packed scripts in a more lightweight and secure way than driving an entire browser.
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connecting languages
First learn what forms computer code can be in. Source code combine js and python or to combine c and C++ object code with a linker or at runtime if you want to shell out and run from the prompt
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Web Browser Engineering
If you want battle-hardened, I figure you can't do better than V8. Here's a Python wrapper that I've poked at a bit (it's not quite 100% feature-complete but it seems to essentially work): https://github.com/sqreen/PyMiniRacer
youtube-dl
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YouTube-dl has been taken down
I see. According to the Web Archive, this website stopped working all the way in November 2023, and http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ now contains all the same content as the old one and is the new "official" website.
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Forget spaceships; I just want my music
youtube-dl is still a thing, last commit was one week ago.
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commits/master
- Show HN: YouTube-Dl – Local OS Video Downloader
- How Do You Crate Dig for Samples?
- Wanna download shows from pirated website, says URL is unsupported. Which sites work?
- Straight BS
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Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring Fair Pay for Artists
> Is there a service that actually gives MP3 downloads?
YouTube with youtube-dl [1] or NewPipe [2].
[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
[2] https://newpipe.net/
- out of curiosity, how do I update youtube-dl using apt?
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YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
See elsewhere in the thread for details, but youtube-dl was restored by Github and is generally not considered to be in violation of the DMCA. You can see it on Github here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
A copyright holder abused the DMCA process to take it down the first time.
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Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl?
The best way is to download the source from github, run `make`, and copy the the file to $HOME/bin . There hasn't been a release for about a year now and the files on the distro repos are even older (I think).
Also YouTube has been doing some changes lately on the the player and a lot of the tools fail to download audio or video.
For example, in the last couple of weeks there have been some issues with a redirect to a 'consent page' : https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/32499
What are some alternatives?
quickjs - Thin Python wrapper of https://bellard.org/quickjs/
spotify-downloader - Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).
dukpy - Simple JavaScript interpreter for Python
pytube - A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
tube-get - A tube-site downloader
you-get - :arrow_double_down: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
mini_racer - Minimal embedded v8
udemy-dl - A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for personal offline use.
Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint
twitch-dl - CLI tool for downloading videos from Twitch.