youtube-dl ,,,removed from GitHub

[vinnywright]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/riaa-b...outube-videos/



VINNY

[chimak111]

2020 doesn't stop

I guess there are going to be several anonymous clones with all the implied security issues.

(I wonder about the repo versions as well. In any case, they're mostly outdated.)

Edit: worth a watch

[woodsmoke]

Just one more reason to stay three or four releases behind the times.
woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

[GreyGeek]

Forget the Entertainment industry. The real problem this takedown creates is that it blocks DL'ing a controversial video, or an incriminating one to archive it for subsequent use and proof. Just another form of the increasing censorship ramping up around the world.

[TWPonKubuntu]

Thanks for that link GG.

[Bings]

Twenty years after Napster and these fools have learnt nothing it seems.

[GreyGeek]

Twenty years after Napster and these fools have learnt nothing it seems.

They have learned how to tweak YT to make sure that youtube-dl doesn't work, like they did once before but was foiled by an immediate update of youtube-dl. But, when they tweak it this time youtube-dl won't be adjusted to the changes and won't work any more. All those YT download extensions and widgets won't work any more.

They are still being stupid, however. It may complicate matters just a little but one can play a YT video and use a screen capture tool like Vokoscreen or others to capture it as it plays on the screen and through the audio.

[vinnywright]

well it's still updating ,,,,,,,,,,

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#54ff54][B]vinny@vinny-bonox8[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]:[/COLOR][COLOR=#5454ff][B]~[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]$ sudo youtube-dl -U [/COLOR]
[sudo] password for vinny:  
Updating to version 2020.11.01.1 ... 
Updated youtube-dl. Restart youtube-dl to use the new version.

[/FONT]

VINNY

[TWPonKubuntu]

I get a failure saying that a debian upgrade is not allowed...

youtube-dl: error: youtube-dl's self-update mechanism is disabled on Debian.
Please update youtube-dl using apt(8).
See https://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl for the latest packaged version.

The package at debian.org is not the newest version...

[chimak111]

well it's still updating ...

I got updated to the same version today but on previous days (after the takedown), I got a response which basically meant that I should try later.

[GreyGeek]

well it's still updating ,,,,,,,,,,

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#54ff54][B]vinny@vinny-bonox8[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]:[/COLOR][COLOR=#5454ff][B]~[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]$ sudo youtube-dl -U [/COLOR]
[sudo] password for vinny:  
Updating to version 2020.11.01.1 ... 
Updated youtube-dl. Restart youtube-dl to use the new version.

[/FONT]

VINNY

Not here:

$ sudo youtube-dl -U
[sudo] password for jerry:
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: youtube-dl's self-update mechanism is disabled on Debian.
Please update youtube-dl using apt(8).
See https://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl for the latest packaged version.

[chimak111]

@GreyGeek,

re.

$ sudo youtube-dl -U
[sudo] password for jerry:
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: youtube-dl's self-update mechanism is disabled on Debian.
Please update youtube-dl using apt(8).
See https://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl for the latest packaged version.

is your version of youtube-dl from the repos? Mine was direct from the now unavailable https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl using

sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

[jglen490]

john@john-Desktop:/etc$ youtube-dl
/usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory

It successfully downloaded for me, but I got the above error. I got the error with sudo also, so /usr/bin/env is not finding an object named "python".

I'll remove this version and go back to the repo version. It, at least, worked on the YTs that interest me.

[chimak111]

john@john-Desktop:/etc$ youtube-dl
/usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory

It successfully downloaded for me, but I got the above error. I got the error with sudo also, so /usr/bin/env is not finding an object named "python".

I'll remove this version and go back to the repo version. It, at least, worked on the YTs that interest me.

Have you tried sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python? That fixed /usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory for me.