You can download the most recent version of the YouTube-DL code from Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201018144703/https://github.co...
Fuck the RIAA
Fuck the RIAA
Here's Debian's mirror btw, somewhat out of date and using the one-commit-per-upstream-release development model (in the upstream branch), so lacking a lot of history: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/youtube-dl
Edit: On a serious note, though. I just realised that Internet Archive apparently doesn't archive most PRs? (https://web.archive.org/web/20201018122643if_/https://github...) If so, that's a real shame, I had an open PR on youtube_dl and even though I still have the code locally, I would've liked to keep the PR conversation as it had some really helpful feedback and a bunch of people that were potentially interested in my feature.
It was really a matter of time. I'm sure most of us were already amazed it lasted this long - and it did because it remained a relatively obscure tool for years.
It's also the case that the development of subversive/illegal tools requires a certain amount of subterfuge and sneakiness that the youtube-dl developers apparently weren't ready to engage in. While this is understandable, it also underscores the fact that such tools live on borrowed time (as does, I would argue, general-purpose computing itself).
pip3 install --user --upgrade youtube-dl
youtube-dl becomes obsolete very quickly as endpoints make changes on their settings and formats, notably youtube.com themselves
git clone https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl
[1] - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o7ilf8...
Where the hell do they have that much hard disk space, and who is funding them?
Even though it takes a lot of bandwidth, I think preserving the source code on GitHub is an invaluable service and hope they continue to do so. I didn't know they were saving the zip file of every release, but I can understand why. It gives you point in time snapshots more easily and who knows how easy it will be to use a git repo from today 100 years from now. ZIP is a much simpler format if it needs to be reimplemented and is used all over the place.
Does anyone see the video links in the README claimed by RIAA?
# JS player signature function name containing $
{
'url': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM',
'info_dict': {
'id': 'nfWlot6h_JM',
'ext': 'm4a',
'title': 'Taylor Swift - Shake It Off',
'description': 'md5:307195cd21ff7fa352270fe884570ef0',
'duration': 242,
'uploader': 'TaylorSwiftVEVO',
'uploader_id': 'TaylorSwiftVEVO',
'upload_date': '20140818',
},
'params': {
'youtube_include_dash_manifest': True,
'format': '141/bestaudio[ext=m4a]',
},
},