youtube-dlc

youtube-dl's main feature is its frequent updates Ah, yeah, now they do frequent updates. But here's a fork that I switched to for a while because the maintainers of the original youtube-dl were slacking off. :) https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc I can't believe the level of entitlement my comment exhibits. :) My attitude (a bit tongue in cheek) is probably why many open source authors abandon their products. Too much work, no thanks, lots of bitching.

If anyone thinks that Github had no choice but to follow the legal notice, I want to mention that youtube-dlc [1], a community fork of youtube-dl, is also taken down. This fork is not even mentioned in the DMCA notice [2]. Github is complicit in this. [1] https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc [2] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-2...

> It's not like the forker inherited all the open issues/PRs, they just dropped them all. That's wrong, most of the recent commits in the fork are merging branches from a lot of other repos. GitHub doesn't have a mechanism for inheriting a project's pull requests when you fork, but that doesn't mean they're automatically "dropped", since you can still merge the corresponding branch. https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc/commits/master

I use youtube-dl to download from Nico Nico Douga, which means having to restart the download every few minutes because the program doesn't send heartbeat requests. There's been a PR to fix this for a couple of years now [1], and a more recent updated PR to add encrypted video support [2], both of which are still open. Meanwhile, the corresponding PR on youtube-dlc [3] is actively being looked at. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/18230 [2] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/23824 [3] https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc/pull/55

This is something I was going to address but wasn't my main focus in the beginning. But I made another write-up on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ir8ic6/youtube... A tiny conversation about this here as well https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc/issues/56#issue...