Fork it and put it on radicle or I2P. The MAFIAA can go fuck themselves.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2024
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What sites for eg?
I don't think a fork will solve anything. I'm pretty sure the reason they did this is to cover their asses (don't forget that it was very near to being taken down just a few years ago).
Further, yt-dlp has implemented plugin support, for this exact reason. I think that's a new feature compared to youtube-dl. You can add your own extractors as plugins, wherever you find them. As I remember there are a few plugins that are even maintained by a yt-dlp maintainer.
If you find this to be ok or better, please consider changing the title to let those know about what's happening who have already read the post, because they wouldn't know it otherwise.
This isn't going to make the copyright holders hate them any less.
But it IS giving the copyright holders less attack surface to bite into. Haters gonna hate, let them.
Time to fork it with a non pussyfied version
A plugin for yt-dlp will suffice. It's also easier to maintain.
See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/yt-dlp-error-piracy-this-website-is-no-longer-supported.93995/ for some pertinent comments.
See list of forks here https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/forks. If you find one that works, let us know.
The most likely explanation is that their previous implementation broke due to a website change, and they didn't want to bother with fixing it. People began opening issues for them to fix it, but now it looks like they're aiding people explicitly asking for piracy, so they can't win (and also I'm willing to bet it fucking sucked trying to support that particular website)
Maybe you can find some more discussion and the reasoning in their documentation or Github issues or pull requests. I bet this has been discussed before someone implemented it. Maybe there's also a way to restore the old behaviour.
There is, they added plugin support. See my top level comment for details
Is that an indirect plea to open an issue for it? We should do this.
They are closing all issues citing piracy https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=is%3Aissue+piracy+is%3Aclosed
Wow really? That's kind of a shitty stance for them to take.
True, but sadly the kind of one they must take to avoid being hit with a cease and desist.
Especially when downloading from the other supported sites (example: YouTube) is already against their tos and technically, piracy
They know someone will fork it. Playing it safe is smart
From whom? The piracy site owners?
Copyright troll. They even hit manga reader app. Not even distribute any material, just a reader. Just because can load manga from piracy site.
Can you remember the last version that worked for you? A quick workaround could be downloading an older build off the github.
Still this is extremely disappointing and hopefully someone forks it.
It used to work last year 😀 . The debian yt-dlp version: [email protected] is giving a different error
ERROR: [Einthusan] 9r1H: 9r1H: Failed to parse JSON (caused by JSONDecodeError("Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0)")); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
Old versions of yt-dlp never work for me. Even after a few months, it's usually time to upgrade.