[jaspergilley]

You can download the most recent version of the YouTube-DL code from Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201018144703/https://github.co...

Fuck the RIAA

[oefrha]

You can only download a snapshot from that page. Here's a tarball with the entire git repo in case anyone's interested: https://transfer.sh/Hj9dD/youtube-dl-git.tar.gz (52MiB)

Here's Debian's mirror btw, somewhat out of date and using the one-commit-per-upstream-release development model (in the upstream branch), so lacking a lot of history: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/youtube-dl

[amatecha]

The gzipped tarball, was that as of latest commit? just curious if we can consider it the definitive final copy

[ce4]

Youtube-dlc has merged a lot of youtube-dl's outstanding PRs, i remember -dlc being 350 commits/7 behind -dl some 2 or 3 days ago. So definitely base the fork off *-dlc

[marc_abonce]

There's also that copy in the Arctic. I don't think that Github will remove that one.

Edit: On a serious note, though. I just realised that Internet Archive apparently doesn't archive most PRs? (https://web.archive.org/web/20201018122643if_/https://github...) If so, that's a real shame, I had an open PR on youtube_dl and even though I still have the code locally, I would've liked to keep the PR conversation as it had some really helpful feedback and a bunch of people that were potentially interested in my feature.

[Udo]

That doesn't matter. As development stops, youtube-dl will stop being able to download videos in a matter of months (at best). This is an extremely brittle system that relies on youtube-dl being one step ahead of Youtube at all times. Without further development, the next update to Youtube's site will break the tool.

It was really a matter of time. I'm sure most of us were already amazed it lasted this long - and it did because it remained a relatively obscure tool for years.

It's also the case that the development of subversive/illegal tools requires a certain amount of subterfuge and sneakiness that the youtube-dl developers apparently weren't ready to engage in. While this is understandable, it also underscores the fact that such tools live on borrowed time (as does, I would argue, general-purpose computing itself).

[angry_octet]

While they may have made collaborative development more difficult for the moment, what hasn't changed is the strong motivation from a wide range of technical people to be able to download whatever they can watch in a browser. Something will rise from the ashes.

[djsumdog]

I can still install it via pip:

    pip3 install --user --upgrade youtube-dl

So I guess they haven't issued a take down to PyPy yet.

[moonchild]

*PyPi. PyPy is an alternate implementation of python.

[kzrdude]

youtube-dl is in every linux repo, so the source code is widely mirrored and is not going anywhere.

[muyuu]

they need to move development elsewhere though

youtube-dl becomes obsolete very quickly as endpoints make changes on their settings and formats, notably youtube.com themselves

[Barrin92]

just throw it up on Gitee good luck ever getting through the Chinese court system on a copyright issue

[fibers]

wow this straight up sounds like the best solution by far since who knows if microsoft or google is willing to put up a fight

[hackerman123469]

That is actually one of the best solutions

[rosywoozlechan]

I can still find youtube-dl on gitlab, so it's still out there.

[viro]

ok so I might just be stupid but how does that link let me clone the repo?.....

[q3k]

Here's a git mirror of the entire repo history up the the latest commit hash that I'm aware of. Compare against the commit hash on Google Webcache [1] for safety:

    git clone https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl

Clone, verify and rehost.

[1] - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o7ilf8...

[yamrzou]

As another comment pointed[0], there is a mirror on gitee: https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872999

[capableweb]

https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a link to zip of master from commit 4eda10499e8db831167062b0e0dbc7d10d34c1f9, which was around 18/10/2020

[soerface]

IPFS CID of that zip file: QmaCpz7YkLGaAQxa3kRHGQhhd23RQFHuKPzhHaa2pC3i53

[wizzwizz4]

https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a ZIP containing the repo.

[dheera]

Wow I didn't think they'd host ZIP files of every commit of every repo.

Where the hell do they have that much hard disk space, and who is funding them?

[qwerty456127]

We are funding them together: https://archive.org/donate/

[blitblitblit]

The copyright trolls are encircling Archive.org ever since they briefly offered the National Emergency Library. They need all the good vibes we can send them, please donate!

[slaymaker1907]

I give them money every month because their archives are essential to preserving our history. Not to mention, they have really saved my bacon before when I really needed to read some technical blog published a decade ago that has since been lost due to the website being reorganized or even being completely taken down.

Even though it takes a lot of bandwidth, I think preserving the source code on GitHub is an invaluable service and hope they continue to do so. I didn't know they were saving the zip file of every release, but I can understand why. It gives you point in time snapshots more easily and who knows how easy it will be to use a git repo from today 100 years from now. ZIP is a much simpler format if it needs to be reimplemented and is used all over the place.

[aspenmayer]

Internet Archive seems to be heavily promoting Protocol Labs tech and File Coin specifically on their Twitter feed. I have donated small sums and ran a couple fundraisers via Facebook which benefited Internet Archive. The promo for File Coin is new. They pitch it as building a decentralized AWS, which I'm not sure if File Coin gets you 100% of the way there, but it's a start?

[jagged-chisel]

In a large datacenter. People like you and me, some institutional grants here and there...

[mikeyouse]

Archive.org

https://archive.org/about/credits.php

[arno1]

It doesn't contain git commit history. Clone a fresh mirror off here https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl.git

[metahost]

You can use the download zip button instead of cloning.

[29_29]

click code, download zip

[thesimon]

I mostly see this video "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj", which should not be copyrighted.

Does anyone see the video links in the README claimed by RIAA?

[oefrha]

Unfortunately, the claimed videos are in some tests in youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py, e.g.

        # JS player signature function name containing $
        {
            'url': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM',
            'info_dict': {
                'id': 'nfWlot6h_JM',
                'ext': 'm4a',
                'title': 'Taylor Swift - Shake It Off',
                'description': 'md5:307195cd21ff7fa352270fe884570ef0',
                'duration': 242,
                'uploader': 'TaylorSwiftVEVO',
                'uploader_id': 'TaylorSwiftVEVO',
                'upload_date': '20140818',
            },
            'params': {
                'youtube_include_dash_manifest': True,
                'format': '141/bestaudio[ext=m4a]',
            },
        },