mini_racer
youtube-dl
mini_racer | youtube-dl | |
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4 | 1,082 | |
583 | 128,720 | |
0.7% | 0.6% | |
7.2 | 8.5 | |
22 days ago | 13 days ago | |
JavaScript | Python | |
MIT License | The Unlicense |
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mini_racer
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
Some years ago I was on a shitty job - not technically, but the company turned out to be inhumane - at a Ruby shop, and on the side I was toying with mini_racer and I just upgraded to some macOS beta where it failed to build. A shitty +1-1 hack† for a compiler flag later and it was back flying.
A month later I received a cold email from a CTO to chat a bit about that PR, turns out they were using mini_racer heavily and forked it for their own purpose, and also created PyMiniRacer for the Python side of things. Next thing I know I got hired. Two years later the company got acquired.
Of course conditionally adding a compiler flag wasn't what got me hired per se, it only got my profile noticed. Probably side projects such as porting go by example to Ruby by implementing a ~1:1 CSP channel API[1], an Electron desktop client for Mattermost basically on a dare[2], ex mode for the Atom editor so that I could have that frackin' `:w`[3], leveraging Blocks to bolt on object-oriented-ness onto C because "closures are a poor man's object"[4], or reverse-engineering the Xbox One USB gamepad and writing a kext to turn it into a HID device on macOS from scratch on a lonely 7+h train ride with passengers judgementally staring at me sideways[4] probably contributed to it a bit.
My takeaway: luck is when preparation meets opportunity; but don't to side projects to get hired, because if you don't get hired then that time is lost. Rather, of all things, scratch your itch, have fun, embrace whatever quirkiness you fancy; no one can take that away from you.
[0]: https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/commit/2086db1bbf2b5de4...
[1]: https://github.com/lloeki/normandy
[2]: https://github.com/lloeki/matterfront
[3]: https://github.com/lloeki/ex-mode
[4]: https://github.com/lloeki/cblocks-clobj/blob/master/main.c
[5]: https://github.com/lloeki/xbox_one_controller
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YouTube-dl has a JavaScript interpreter written in 870 lines of Python
Cue libv8-node+mini_racer from which PyMiniRacer was born. It is non-trivial but not as hard as one might think.
The most painful part is the libv8 build system and Google tooling, which makes it an absolute PITA for libv8 consumers that are not Chrome.
This is why the libv8 gem was atrocious to keep up to date and to build for several platforms, and why libv8-node was born, because the node build system and source distribution are actually sane.
Disclaimer: worked at Sqreen, now maintainer of libv8-node and collaborator of mini_racer
https://github.com/sqreen/PyMiniRacer
https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer
https://github.com/rubyjs/libv8-node
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Rendering markdown with Markdoc in Rails
Eventually, we’ll want to call this JavaScript from a Rails controller using ExecJS or MiniRacer or some similar tool. None of the Ruby-to-JavaScript gems I found were sophisticated enough to know how to load npm modules with common.js or ES module syntax, so my solution is to just build the JavaScript with a watcher and have that run as part of bin/dev.
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Anyone having issues with M1Pro?
https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/issues/190 has some info an then this PR: https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/pull/210 that has been merged. Hope that all helps!
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?
execjs - Run JavaScript code from Ruby
spotify-downloader - Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).
libv8-node - Package libv8 from Node
pytube - A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
quickjs - Thin Python wrapper of https://bellard.org/quickjs/
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
PyMiniRacer - PyMiniRacer is a V8 bridge in Python.
you-get - :arrow_double_down: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
pyduktape - Embed the Duktape JS interpreter in Python
udemy-dl - A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for personal offline use.
markdoc-rails - Example of rendering markdown using Markdoc with Ruby on Rails
twitch-dl - CLI tool for downloading videos from Twitch.