YouTube-DL is no more

[Dave C]

Thank you David. Very glad to hear this.

Cheers!

> On Dec 18, 2020, at 11:44 AM, David Herron <david at davidherron.com> wrote:
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> The YouTube-DL Github repository is still there.  There was a period where it had disappeared due to DMCA but thanks to the EFF that was resolved.
> 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/jvcqd0/standing_up_for_developers_youtubedl_is_back/
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> https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
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>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 10:21 AM Dave C via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
>> The YouTube-DL github page was taken down per DMCA request.
>> 
>> Before learning of this I tried to DL a video and use the -x option to extract the audio. This failed so in ignorance I successfully updated MacPorts and when I repeated the audio DL, this time it succeeded resulting in an audio file.
>> 
>> This brings up 2 questions for me:
>> 1. Why did this fail? I had a functioning youtube-dl since last MP update with all the required bits (ffmpg, Python, etc) and I don’t update component individually; they were last updated with the last MP update earlier this year. I haven’t updated MacOS for years. So if it was functioning earlier this year, why did it fail yesterday?
>> 2. Next time(?) I update MP I presume YouTube-dl won’t update. Will it be removed? Will it no longer work? Is there a way to keep the port I have currently functioning?
>> 
>> Feel free to also answer any questions I haven’t asked about the impact this news will have.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
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