Youtube-dl Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship

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  • youtube-dl

    Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

    • It's still on github https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

  • dmca

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    • It's also on the github dmca repo https://github.com/github/dmca//tree/19441f8f51759e59df62f667791385034564c5be

  • 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.

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  • yt-dlp

    A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

    • If any of you don't know, get yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

  • ytdl-patched

    yt-dlp fork with some more features

    • yt-dl is only barely maintained and the devs refuse to add pull requests that fix various things, use yt-dlp instead.

  • TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection

    The ultimate collection of scripts for YouTube-DL.

    • If you want to do complicated bullshit, like setting up automated downloading of channels for archiving, then I recommend this: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection : Initially might seem confusing, this is a good set of scripts for looking at how yt-dlp is "supposed" to be set up script-wise. Good for manually messing with things and setting up a cron job to run. These scripts will assist in downloading more than just the video, like thumbnails and metadata, and comments.

  • yark

    YouTube archiving made simple.

    • https://github.com/Owez/yark : "Yark" also seems like a great up and coming project for archiving.

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