Youtube-dl Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship

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  • yt-dlp

    A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

    Correct, and just as an FYI there is yt-dlp now that succeeds it.

  • ytdl-patched

    yt-dlp fork with some more features

    https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp is better, FYI.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • youtube-d

    A fast command-line Youtube downloader

    I've been working on a similar tool these past couple of months and to me the difficult part was finding that URL in an automated fashion. For regular videos, the real video URL is right there in the html page. But for music videos, the real URL is hidden behind a series of 3 types of scrambling operations to make it harder to reverse engineer. This algorithm isn't the same for every video, so sometimes there are only 4 steps and sometimes there are more. I think this is what they meant by "protection measures".

  • dmd

    dmd D Programming Language compiler

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