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by rolodato 2899 days ago
"From YouTube.com" is a massive understatement. youtube-dl can download from pretty much any video site, including porn sites: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais...
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Adding additional extractors is also trivial.
Have you got an example? I couldn't work out how to do it last time, but it's easier for me to get an Australian geoblocked site going than it is to submit a bug report and wait for someone to use a proxy.
You can search through pull requests to see a few examples, but I wouldn't say it's that simple. Login in and authentication can be very different for each website.
All those NSFW labels. Maybe after all internet is made for pom.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think advances in video streaming tech were pioneered by "cam girls" (porn).
Some even argue that HTTP won over Gopher because of Multimedia, more exactly image, support.
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