UniExtract2 VS NewPipeExtractor

the most advanced tool i know of is universal extractor for windows. Its Open Source and should run on Wine. You could also try PeaZip

To update, I don't like running the installer which adds a start folder an uninstall entry in the system. so I use UniExtract2 to extract the files and update like any other portable app.

Windows Provisioning is separate, provisioning uses ppkg wim packages, that seems to "patch windows" without having to reinstall the OS. You can remove them apparently. I used this AMD chipset installer as example and uniextract2

- https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc.3

UniExtract2 (download link)

maybe this https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2

You can also try to get the content with Universal Extractor. But it won't install it if that's what the exe does.

There's this thing called NewPipeExtractor, which scrapes a lot of details from YouTube like videos, comments, and channels. But using it is a bit of a hassle since it requires implementing some abstract class, and its documentation is hard to understand.

For example there is https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor which allows downloading videos. there is https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts which activates Windows, I have tried and it works.

As for native support, it seems the issue for it exists but is pretty quiet so you may want to subscribe to it or lobby for some progress: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/issues/690

See https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/8837 and https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/pull/904 for pull requests with this feature. The extractor PR is also needed for LibreTube (as LibreTube depends on Piped which depends on our extractor).

For an example the youtube/streaming front-end android client NewPipe and its associated "backend" NewPipeExtractor has a lot of machinary to emulate what javascript does in your browser when you ask it to play a video/stream from various websites (most notably youtube). It does take a lot of effort, which is why it often goes into periods of quiet development as the previous maintainers burn-out and new ones take over. But it isnt impossible, but modern websites do not let go of thier content easily. Also note that even this is only read-only, there isnt a mechanism to allow you to post.

NewPipe Team's commits were crucially helpful in resolving the issue. TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#960 (https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/pull/960) THANKS SO MUCH, NEWPIPE TEAM!

You should indeed see them, that's a bug. I opened a new issue for this with some technical details: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/issues/1017.