Youtube downloader

[Azi Hassan]

On Monday, 1 January 2024 at 21:40:48 UTC, matheus wrote:
> On Monday, 1 January 2024 at 20:45:09 UTC, Azi Hassan wrote:
>> I've been working on this for a few months now and I figured 
>> I'd share it here. It's a youtube downloader that is inspired 
>> by youtube-dl. It's still under development, but I think the 
>> core functionality is stable enough for me to share it with 
>> the community.
>>
>> Github link: https://github.com/azihassan/youtube-d/
>
> Hi there,
>
> First of all Happy New Year!
>
> Regarding your post, very nice and I'll take a look after 
> festivities.
>
> But I'm curious, since you shared this in August 14 how is it 
> going so far against google's tricks to stop external 
> downloads? Did you have to write or change the calls too much 
> to bypass some restrictions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matheus.

Happy new year to you too!

There haven't been any changes surprisingly enough, but I 
wouldn't be shocked if they started changing things around 
especially since they've been pushing some anti adblocking 
measures lately. My guess is that even Google is limited by how 
fast they can iterate on this since it would involve redeploying 
the mobile apps every time, unless of course they implement some 
runtime evaluation tricks on the mobile codebase.

It's also worth mentioning that downloading is now officially 
supported at youtube.com, although it doesn't allow direct access 
to the resulting mp4 or webm files.

I forgot to include this in the original post, but I wrote about 
the internals of youtube-d here: 
https://blog.pingfrommorocco.com/2023/08/writing-faster-youtube-downloader.html