• Azi Hassan (6/6) Jan 01 I've been working on this for a few months now and I figured I'd
• matheus (11/17) Jan 01 Hi there,
• Azi Hassan (15/33) Jan 02 Happy new year to you too!

Azi Hassan <azi.hassan live.fr> writes:

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/

matheus <matheus gmail.com> writes:

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.

Azi Hassan <azi.hassan live.fr> writes:

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