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Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

yt-dlp remains unaffected for now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yt-dlp is only affected when YT changes their algorithms (breaking yt-dlp data scrapping capabilities) or when it's used frequently with the same IP address (leading to automatic IP blockage). If you're using yt-dlp sporadically, it shouldn't be affected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I've hit that blockade before. Pushing yt-dlp over Tor usually does the trick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Is there a gui interface for that anywhere? I really can’t be bothered to learn the command line just to download a couple vids here and there. Especially when freetube still works for now. But if the barrier to entry was a little lower, I’d start backing up faves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yt-dlg for windows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This looks promising, thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

There was a linux version but it seems to have gone poof. For Windows users there's : https://yt-bat.github.io/

[–] gentooer 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The basic command is just yt-dlp 'www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ' tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That will get me a minimum 1080p vid with sound? Cuz looking at the instructions, it looks a lot more complicated.

[–] gentooer 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've actually never looked into yt-dlp's default behaviour, as I've always been happy with the video and audio quality of the downloaded video. Probing the downloaded video from the command in my comment above yields for the video Video: vp9 (Profile 0) (vp09 / 0x39307076), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080, 3751 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 16k tbn (default), and for the audio Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Great to know. Thanks for the follow up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Seal for Android is a solid client