yt-dlp is no longer working for some piracy websites

stefenauris , 6 hours ago

Wow really? That’s kind of a shitty stance for them to take.

laz , 4 hours ago

True, but sadly the kind of one they must take to avoid being hit with a cease and desist.

HouseWolf , 6 hours ago

Can you remember the last version that worked for you? A quick workaround could be downloading an older build off the github.

Still this is extremely disappointing and hopefully someone forks it.

Lemmling OP , 5 hours ago

It used to work last year 😀 . The debian yt-dlp version: [email protected] is giving a different error

ERROR: [Einthusan] 9r1H: 9r1H: Failed to parse JSON (caused by JSONDecodeError(“Expecting value in ‘’: line 1 column 1 (char 0)”)); please report this issue on github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U

Flatworm7591 , 4 hours ago

See …freebsd.org/…/yt-dlp-error-piracy-this-website-i… for some pertinent comments.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/3db06c82-cc06-4753-8945-11c20b770e83.webp

See list of forks here github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/forks. If you find one that works, let us know.

DoucheBagMcSwag , 3 hours ago

Time to fork it with a non pussyfied version

hendrik , 5 hours ago

Maybe you can find some more discussion and the reasoning in their documentation or Github issues or pull requests. I bet this has been discussed before someone implemented it. Maybe there's also a way to restore the old behaviour.

mbirth , 6 hours ago

Is that an indirect plea to open an issue for it? We should do this.

Lemmling OP , 5 hours ago

They are closing all issues citing piracy github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=is%3Aissue+pira…

XTL , 5 hours ago

Could be a liability for them to have to work on support for those sites when it breaks.

SnotFlickerman , 4 hours ago

Sounds like its time for a pirate fork… maybe yt-dlpirate?

I mean, fuck it, one of the big private trackers could do releases, kind of like how Bibliotik does releases of those tools to strip DRM from ebooks.

adarza , 3 hours ago

some way to call a custom or ‘third party’ (not compiled into the program) extractor would probably be enough. then let other people work on ones for the, um, ‘problem sites’.

themoonisacheese , 4 hours ago

The most likely explanation is that their previous implementation broke due to a website change, and they didn’t want to bother with fixing it. People began opening issues for them to fix it, but now it looks like they’re aiding people explicitly asking for piracy, so they can’t win (and also I’m willing to bet it fucking sucked trying to support that particular website)

winterayars , 2 hours ago

This isn’t going to make the copyright holders hate them any less.