youtube-dl is back

[dstftw]

As everybody already knows our dev repository has been reinstated earlier today. You can read the full story here.

We would like to thank @github for standing up for youtube-dl and making it possible to continue development without dropping any features. We appreciate @github for taking potential legal risks in this regard.

We would also like to thank @EFForg and personally @Mitch77 for invaluable legal help.

We would also like to heartily thank our main website hoster Uberspace who is currently being sued in Germany for hosting our essentially business card website and who have already spent thousands of Euros in their legal defense.

We also appreciate massive amount of support received lately and we are sorry we could not physically respond to everybody.

Finally, we would like to thank all youtube-dl users and contributors for using and improving youtube-dl.

Thank you all.

youtube-dl is back!

[Whanos]

Long live the king!

[Mhowser]

We should look into backing up all the pull requests and issues in case this happens again.

[leetfin]

Three cheers for youtube-dl! Glad it's back, RIAA can go sit in a hole.

[Hans5958]

pog

gg, riaa can suck ass

[Morsmalleo]

Hip hip hooray for the return of Youtube-dl

[ucodelukas]

Whoohoo

[Qix-]

I've never used youtube-dl personally but I've been following this closely. The community over at HackerNews has invested a lot of effort tracking this as well.

Thank you to the fine folks at EFF for sticking up for us. While I'm not personally the biggest fan of Github for unrelated reasons, this was a good act of showmanship on their part, too.

Thank you for pushing the boundaries of freedom of expression and the exercise of open technology. I'm glad to see you back.

[laoshuterry]

Cheers!!

[Lightsockie]

woot

[iamflorencejay]

WELCOME BACK BOIZZZZ

[FrozenHearth]

Welcome back!

[angentanewbe]

Welcome Back. Keep youtube-dl alive :D

[joppan]

Welcome back!

[koutsie]

aye 👏

[baddate]

Nice 🎉

[aeongdesu]

Welcome back! 🚀🎉 really cool project

[SausageTaste]

This program can be used for public benefits. No one can take it down ever again!

[CyberTailor]

Do you consider switching to a self-hosted git server to prevent any possible takedowns?

[SausageTaste]

Do you consider switching to a self-hosted git server to prevent any possible takedowns?

https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/
Read this. GitHub is pretty serious about protecting open source projects developers.

[misaka00251]

yay

[viliml]

Why not just move to a different git server?
GitHub is shit anyway.

[blackjyn]

Congrats guys! I just opened my email and got notification on this.
So glad this repo is reinstated again

[qwertyuiop6]

🎉🎉🎉

[TimurC1]

Congratulations! You need an official mirror to prevent new problems in future.

[jalotra]

Github played well.

[thr3a]

okaeri !!!

[Anon-Exploiter]

Youtube-dl -> RCIA

[ESWZY]

WELCOME BACK!

[MysticMerlin]

I'm very sorry that I missed this at the time.
So, like everyone here, Welcome Back youtube-dl & Live Long & Prosper Open Source.

[rautamiekka]

Pretty sure that ain't how it works.

[theAkito]

@jimmy-1000

So, if we expand the abbreviations, we get 'Downloader-download'?

Do you also have an idea how users are supposed to find a specific product, when it has pretty much the most generic name on the internet?

It's obvious you haven't put more than 10 seconds of thought into your comment.

[NoaHimesaka1873]

@smnthermes wow, reading those threads give me a headache

Github Over.
Communist Authoritarianism = Very Yes.

Wow, you sure got your self someone who can spout the social justice party line VERY well.

I do hope that Github becomes defunct and people migrate elsewhere

I'd take it as physical evidence of antitrust law violation... But that's just me.

WTF? Using a new technology is not browser neutral, and make you commie? Are they crazy? Seems like there's just a some altrights and RMS-like people.

[TheAwesome98-Real]

The name ""Youtube-dl" was a big error, because 'Youtube' is a trademark. It's necessary to change that name.
I think the name can be 'Downloader-dl'.

not how it works but okay

[Kreijstal]

The name ""Youtube-dl" was a big error, because 'Youtube' is a trademark. It's necessary to change that name.
I think the name can be 'Downloader-dl'.

not how it works but okay

I can't create an application and to name it 'Netflix Downloader' or 'Netflix-dl', this is not correct. Netflix would use all its power to destroy the app. It's better different name.

you can tho, you wouldn't host it on github tho

[TheAwesome98-Real]

The name ""Youtube-dl" was a big error, because 'Youtube' is a trademark. It's necessary to change that name.
I think the name can be 'Downloader-dl'.

not how it works but okay

I can't create an application and to name it 'Netflix Downloader' or 'Netflix-dl', this is not correct. Netflix would use all its power to destroy the app. It's better different name.

you actually can do that but netflix downloader is piracy but youtube downloader isn't because how would it be

[siddht4]

Though youtube-dl is back
The issue has resulted to bifurication of youtube-dl into

Ytdl-org youtube-dl and ppawel youtube-dl https://github.com/ppawel/youtube-dl

While ytdl-org is now live,the other branch and it's forks are still in lockdown mode

[rautamiekka]

That's the repo's owner's problem.

[siddht4]

@rautamiekka sure but that has led to fragmentation of youtube-dl into two groups

And almost (10.5 k) 68 percentage of the community is still in DMCA lockdown mode,the rest 32 percent (5.2k)

are in these group

[rautamiekka]

If the repo owners just talked to GitHub it would be fixed, it ain't harder than that.

Which reminds me: GitHub shoulda reopened all the affected forks since they had the full list through the DMCA. That makes this weird.

[ghost]

Congrats youtube-dl! Probably one of the best tools ever tbh. Great job to the many corporations that are defending it, too.

Youtube dl is definitely a project that should be hosted on a self-hosted git server, though. These kinds of projects that are heavily dmca'd for almost no valid reasons (we be encouraging piracy omg woah) stand no chance on git servers that have close relations with copyright trash. Github did a good job though.

I might be late to the party, but that won't stop me from celebrating. 🎉

[Pentaphon]

Why has development stalled as of late? Issues and PRs are piling up each week with no end in sight. Is the project in need of a maintainer with more time to devote to the project?

[thedarkfalcon]

Why has development stalled as of late? Issues and PRs are piling up each week with no end in sight. Is the project in need of a maintainer with more time to devote to the project?

The lack of answers about this, and ongoing stalled development has made me jump over to yt-dlp, which has an active community.

[codehound-00]

If this project has been abandoned, maybe it should be archived ? Instead of just doing a Marie-Celeste ?

[Pentaphon]

This entire github page is so eerie. It's as if somebody spooked all the devs and all the users are wondering what happened to them like they are missing persons. While people do think yt-dlp is the answer, the youtube-dl name might be too big for people to leave alone so I think this project might be revived someday and youtube-dl and yt-dlp will become parallel projects as long as everybody involved remains completely anonymous.

[ESWZY]

Please back! Again!

[chenpc1982]

welcome back!

[Pentaphon]

I think it's over...

21b7590

[Mhowser]

Great... Thanks RIAA, for being a massive piece of sh!t

[Jmackay82]

Please provide your donations link you legends, a little Xmas bonus is well deserved!!

[dirkf]

I think it's over...

And yet not.

[TheAwesome98-Real]

not? sounds good