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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Since yt-dlp doesn't work anymore, is there a replacement?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It still works for now. I'm in emergency hoard-shit-for-no-good-reason mode

Are you having issues? Because I've covered almost every error in my own attempts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I watched some old Minecraft let’s play a while back and I think it’s gone forever now. Really wish I had somehow downloaded a copy before it just bleeped out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, that's my biggest concern as well. For example LetsPlay. They had a controversy in which one primary Minecraft player was fired and removed from the group, and I think a couple of their videos were scrubbed, even though the vast majority of content in the video was good entertainment.

There are also copyright and DMCA claims ruining any YouTuber's video, entertainment value and monetisation, including Google bending the knee to corporations that don't actually have the right to claim any content.. There are a lot of reasons for wanting to archive the internet, mostly state/corporate overreach

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I get 403 when I try to use it. I normally use ytdl-sub and youtubedl-material, but those stopped working so I tried doing it just straight from the command line, and it doesn't work anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Try updating. I got that a few days ago using an old version, and updating fixed it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh man, you're my hero. All the docker containers update automatically, but I stopped trying them because of the issues and kept trying manually. It's working now! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Excellent. I just use the CLI executable directly and update it as it breaks. Wasn't even aware there were Docker versions of it lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Weird. I did a test download before replying, and it worked. Though I'm just using vanilla yt-dlp and am unfamiliar with the other two variants you listed.