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Is Stacher open source?

Last time I searched 'stacher open source' on Google, I found a Reddit thread discussing when it might become open source.

EDIT: The reason I ask is that the article says Stacher is open source, and that is news to me.

Same here. Couldn't find any source code

I couldn't find any source code either. Cobalt also isn't really libre; their backend is AGPL, which is great, but their frontend is CC BY-NC-SA, which is not so great (and definitely not open-source).

I'd advise against downloading via someone else's servers anyway, as can be seen by their instance being blocked by Google. Hopefully some day someone manages to port yt-dlp to WASM, then it can be run locally in the browser without needing a download.

Fun fact: yt-dlp is public domain! That's really generous of them and I'm really thankful for their work.

For Android I use Seal (https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/ and https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal), which is absolutely wonderful and has just the right amount of resolution of the options-space.

For Linux... youtube-dl I guess, because there's still no really nice alternative to it. It doesn't seem like Stacher supports non-debian systems, or non-gnu libc systems, either.

To answer your question: it is not open source.