widevine-l3-decryptor VS youtube-dl

Compare widevine-l3-decryptor vs youtube-dl and see what are their differences.

widevine-l3-decryptor

A Chrome extension that demonstrates bypassing Widevine L3 DRM (by tomer8007)

youtube-dl

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites (by ytdl-org)
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widevine-l3-decryptor youtube-dl
15 1082
878 127,924
- 1.2%
2.4 8.6
over 2 years ago 1 day ago
Python
- The Unlicense
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widevine-l3-decryptor

Posts with mentions or reviews of widevine-l3-decryptor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.
  • The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2023
    Not just privately either, there have been tools circulating even on GitHub.

    For a L3 example there's one repo [1] that's kind of still up but not really. Still enough to show that it happened. L1 bypass has also been on GitHub briefly. However these things get deleted rather fast for obvious reasons.

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    [1] https://github.com/tomer8007/widevine-l3-decryptor

  • Decompiling x86 Deep Neural Network Executables
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2022
    Widevine has been broken at least a few times, including by recovering the private key from its white-box implementation: https://github.com/tomer8007/widevine-l3-decryptor/wiki/Reve.... Note that the write-up says it was the "old" version, but that's relative to the date of the write-up. Google overhauled Widevine after he broke it.

    I'm less familiar with shielding data like this, but historically things like VMProtect and Themida were the standard for shielding programs. These offer a degree of resistance to automation, but a determined human will eventually figure them out, and then automation usually follows anyway. Syntia did this for VMProtect and Themida: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit....

  • How to do webrips and webdl?
    2 projects | /r/Piracy | 31 May 2022
    For webrip you'll need an hdmi splitter that doesnt abide by HDCP to bypass protections into a capture card. For webdl theres this older github but it doesn't work anymore, im not sure if there's a currently working script and key online publicly https://github.com/tomer8007/widevine-l3-decryptor
  • Archiving Github Repos?
    2 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 19 Oct 2021
    Not sure if this is relevant to op's situation, but in case of backing up gray-area repos that might get removed (for example - widevine-l3-decryptor), using clone (or pull) as an update mechanism could get you an empty repo with the files removed by the owner.
    2 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 19 Oct 2021
    So if for example I `git clone` ed this project back when it was live with the original files, and then `git pull ` now after the maintainer removed project files and all the relevant commits with it, the `git pull` command would just fail?
  • reddit is forcing the SaveVideo bot offline or face legal action.
    8 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 12 Jul 2021
    You can still bypass DRM if you know how or have to programms to do it (With widevine-l3-decryptor for example (The offical key(s) was/were revoked but some people still post keys))
  • Top 10 Developer Trends, Thu Oct 22 2020
    10 projects | dev.to | 22 Oct 2020
    tomer8007 / widevine-l3-decryptor

youtube-dl

Posts with mentions or reviews of youtube-dl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing widevine-l3-decryptor and youtube-dl you can also consider the following projects:

spotify-downloader - Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

pytube - A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

you-get - :arrow_double_down: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

udemy-dl - A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for personal offline use.

twitch-dl - CLI tool for downloading videos from Twitch.

Monkey-DL (Anime Downloader) - Bulk download your favourite anime episodes from your favourite anime websites

Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass - A simple browser extension to bypass YouTube's age verification, disable content warnings and watch age restricted videos without having to sign in!

FlexGet - The official FlexGet repository

bulk-downloader-for-reddit - Downloads and archives content from reddit

yt-dlp - Fork of youtube-dlc with additional features and fixes [Moved to: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp]