[gluelogic]

> Would you really base your project on reverse engineering and hacking a third party service? It will end up being an arms race. Everytime they change something you'll race to hack it again. In the meantime your service will be inoperable. If your user base is in the tens of thousands that will kill you.

Depends on what the service is. youtube-dl faces this issue but is some of the best software I have ever used.

[roryisok]

> some of the best software I have ever used

That's some hefty praise, do you mind explaining why it's so great?

[saagarjha]

You give it a URL and it downloads the video on that page.

[Macha]

It's better when compared to ad/malware laden webpages that people unaware of youtube-dl use.

[roryisok]

Keepvid was always perfectly usable while it was still going.