Re: what happened ty yt-dlp

Alexis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
<[email protected]> writes:

> Hi.  The last two youtube videos I tried to download using 
> yt-dlp stopped
> partially through with a 403.  I wonder if the maintainer is 
> still working
> on that program, as I cannot find anything else which lets me 
> download
> youtube videos?

As of this moment, the last commit to yt-dlp was only 13 hours 
ago:

  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

What you're experiencing is not necessarily an issue with yt-dlp 
per se, but might be because the status of a given video might 
have changed (e.g. its settings might have been changed to prevent 
access from certain regions, which is something i occasionally 
experience).

Can you confirm that the two videos you're referring to are still 
accessible to you when visiting them on the YouTube site?

The other issue is that yt-dlp involves an 'arms race' between, on 
the one hand, YouTube trying to make life difficult (or 
impossible) for such programs, and on the other, devs and 
maintainers constantly having to try to find workarounds. So it 
might be that YouTube has put something in place which will 
require a bit of time to develop a workaround for.


Alexis.
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