[Question] is yt-dlc dead or has met with a similar fate as that of yt-dl before dmca takedown? #289
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Yeah... Maybe @pukkandan knows more about this? |
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At least yt-dlc is working fine on youtube at the moment, can't say the same about ytdl. |
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I hope he continues to release versions of this, I like having 2 options to use, this or yt-dl |
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@nicolaasjan Nope, I dont know any more than anyone else. A few weeks ago, @blackjack4494 had mentioned that he was having constant network issues. Afaik, we havent heard from him since. Most of my fork's branches (including merge-ytdl2) are for creating PRs to this repo. I do have plans to clean up my repo to make it more suitable for public use. But I wont be creating any releases, at least for the timebeing. I simply lack the know-how or the time to maintain a large project like that. |
Thanks! I do hope however that @blackjack4494 will keep maintaining this repo, when he's got things sorted out, or that we'll at least hear something from him... |
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it works, and a month isn't too terrible in terms of a release. |
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@pukkandan Let me know if I can help in any way. It could be that @blackjack4494 is unavailable for the holidays, but if the lapse in maintenance is too long, something will have to be done to move things forward, especially since no one else (I think) has push access to this repo. |
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@nicolaasjan @jbboehr Like promised, I have cleaned up my fork. There are no releases yet though. Those willing to directly run from source code can try it out. It is up to date with the latest versions of both youtube-dl and yt-dlc. There are also a few changes/additional features. https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlc/#changes I have experience neither in making python releases nor maintaining a project of this scale. If someone can help/teach me to set up Github Actions (since Travis is now limited) and to create the binaries (with proper version info etc), then I can start providing releases. Otherwise dont expect them any time soon. |
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@pukkandan As a matter of fact, I've compiled binaries (both Linux and Windows) from the merge-ytdl2 branch for my own use for quite some time now and they worked fine. Unfortunately I can't help you with any GitHub stuff, because my knowledge is even more limited... [Edit] |
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@pukkandan If you tell me what exactly you need to have in GitHub Actions, I can help you with that. |
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@pukkandan I'm rpm-packaging youtube-dlc in Fedora copr and switched to your fork for now. Works fine so far. |
Honestly, no idea. I have no experience with Github Actions/Travis at all. |
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Yes, but that workflow is for testing and linting only. |
Yes. But be aware of the changes in default behaviour from yt-dlc
No problem |
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For setting up GH Actions to compile Windows binaries, please take a look in: https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/tree/master/.github/workflows which contains The x86 build is compiled with Python 3.4.4, to be able to run on Windows XP SP3 32-bit and higher (Vista SP2 32/64-bit users, like myself, should use this; for my personal usage though, I'm compiling with Python 3.7.9 - thanks @nicolaasjan 👍 ) The x64 build is compiled with Python 3.8.7 to be able to run on Win7 SP1 64-bit and higher... Your altruism and overall efforts are highly appreciated! Kind regards! |
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@pukkandan I would recommend that, before you go any further, you decouple your fork from this fork. If something stupid happens to the parent repo like the youtube-dl takedown from a couple of months ago, your repo will automatically get nuked too. |
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To make things even more complicated, the original, DMCA'ed, repository of the application, https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc has been recently reinstated by GitHub, and people now continue to post New Issues there: https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc Should the original repo be made read-only and point visitors to here, https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc or should the current (second) repo be merged with the original one? |
How do I enable this with CentOS 8? I already installed the yum copr plugin and then I ran "yum copr enable samoht0/somerpmbuilds". After that, it bailed out with |
I'm just building for stable Fedora releases, as this is what I'm running and testing. That said, the F32 rpms should work for this package in CentOS 8. You can download them and install / update the package manually The rpms are here: Automatic package update won't work for obvious reason, bash completion might be broken (just test it). Edit: Can be installed alongside youtube-dl! |
My issue is that the copr repo doesn't integrate itself with it and bails out with this error message, so your COPR has an issue. Installing gping ( yum copr enable atim/gping ) does work without a hitch. |
- switch to different fork, as the previous one is MIA [1] [1] blackjack4494/yt-dlc#289 PR: 252796 Submitted by: daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head@562278 35697150-7ecd-e111-bb59-0022644237b5
- switch to different fork, as the previous one is MIA [1] [1] blackjack4494/yt-dlc#289 PR: 252796 Submitted by: daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net
- switch to different fork, as the previous one is MIA [1] [1] blackjack4494/yt-dlc#289 PR: 252796 Submitted by: daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head@562278 35697150-7ecd-e111-bb59-0022644237b5
Bug from: 6b1d8c1 Authored by: CXwudi
seems to be unmaintained blackjack4494/yt-dlc#289 consider using net-misc/yt-dlp::gentoo
- switch to different fork, as the previous one is MIA [1] [1] blackjack4494/yt-dlc#289 PR: 252796 Submitted by: daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net
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It seems @blackjack4494 excitement to maintain yt-dlc has watered down. No new Merges in past 20ish days, last release was more than a month ago.
I don't blame blackjack4494, everyone gets busy irl. All i am asking is will this project will be actively maintained or should i revert back to yt-dl?
Thanks and a Merry Christmas in advance to all
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