VueTube-Extractor VS yt-dlp

Thank you so much for your offer! If you want to take a crack at the extractor (I really need it, it's basically just me here), there's a (short) wiki here. The faster the extractor gets done the more features we can add to the app itself.

However, many features are currently bottlenecked by the development of VueTube Extractor. If you would like to contribute to the back end of the App as well, we would very much appreciate it. I need all the help I need there, haha.

Extractor checklist: https://github.com/VueTubeApp/VueTube-Extractor/issues/59

yt-dlp also: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128

update I got this: "I would recommend watching the video in FreeTube, writing down all the time ranges and then using yt-dlp with it's --download-sections option.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/README.md#user-..."

> Any links or ideas of how to make sure Google is aware of this?

Cancel the account. That's the only real signal you can send.

Switch to simply downloading YT content: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

I think the "or other url" is important here. I didn't realise for a long time that I could put a reddit, Twitter or other URLs in there to download videos. You can find a complete list of supported sites here:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites....

You can put these options in a config file and they will become the default: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#configur...

Yep. yt-dlp and youtube-dl

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Will also start to feel the impact. My theory is that we will see a bunch of new video hosting sites as youtube itself attempts to lock down its ecosystem. They haven't paid attention in any adversarial way as far as I can tell.

When they do, it wont be great.

The points you make aren't unreasonable.

It is necessary to establish clear boundaries of what can and can be provided by the maintainers. If not done at an earlier stage of the project, the support burden becomes too much to bear at which point the maintainer transfers ownership, and the project suffers from catastrophic consequences such as the xz backdoor we're talking about here, or other cases where the project mostly stalls and serves as an ego-boosting platform for the new maintainer, as was the case with PhantomJS[6].

This can also happen in your life, where a "friend" sees that you possess a certain skill, and then gradually tries to push an inordinate amount of their personal work related to this field onto you.

Personally, I think it's best to use an approach with extremely clear communication as to what the maintainer can and cannot provide. This can be seen, for example, in yt-dlp[1], where the consumer is clearly informed upfront that not providing detailed information as requested will lead them to block said consumer; or sqlite where their position regarding contributed patches[2] and support[3] is similarly made clear.

Having a shouty BDFL like Torvalds can also help improve code quality[4] and questionable contributions[5], though it is better that the shouty BDFL makes statements that are professional and do not show as much aggression; so for example, "Mauro, shut the fuck up"[7] would become "Mauro, your response is completely unbecoming for a Linux kernel maintainer, and is not in line with the promise of not breaking userspace."

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/new?assignees=&label...

[2] https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

[3] https://www.sqlite.org/support.html

[4] https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/29/linux_6_8_rc2/

[5] https://cse.umn.edu/cs/linux-incident

[6] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/14541

[7] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

Or just "yt-dlp "

yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ) still works pretty well at the current state of Twitter.