Youtube-dl Project Is Dead Again
grarpamp
grarpamp at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 00:20:46 PDT 2021
Commits were tapering off ever since DMCA reboot.
Hasn't missed a month since 2009.
Now no commits since over two months.
With 1236 extractors to maintain, that's unusual.
Around 1000 open PR's and growing.
Other people have noticed...
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29753
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29842
Black effectively abandoned themselves too
after claiming to be the future during DMCA...
https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc
People now moving to this, which also does comments...
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Youtube recently age-restricted everything good,
and is blatantly and AI censoring everyone now.
There are still some places where you can freely plug in...
yt-dlp -o - 9ix7TUGVYIo | brain_interface
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