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Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

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798 points bertman | 5 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bdz ◴[12 Nov 25 13:17 UTC] No.45899768[source]▶
I use yt-dlp (and back then youtube-dl) all the time to archive my liked videos. Started back in around 2010, now I have tens of thousands of videos saved. Storage is cheap and a huge percent of them are not available anymore on the site.

I also save temporary videos removed after a time for example NHK honbasho sumo highlights which are only available for a month or so then they permanently remove them.

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moralestapia ◴[12 Nov 25 13:28 UTC] No.45899869[source]▶
Same here and my motivation was that some of my liked videos were randomly removed and it's pretty cool music I wanted to keep forever.

I made another script that adds the video thumbnail as album art and somehow tries to put the proper ID3 tags, it works like 90% of the time which is good enough for me.

Then I made another script that syncs it to my phone when I connect it.

So now I have unlimited music in my phone and I only have to click on "Like" to add more.

And yet, none of Google's 900k TOC genius engineers have thought of this as a feature ...

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anamexis ◴[12 Nov 25 13:41 UTC] No.45900050[source]▶
> And yet, none of Google's 900k TOC genius engineers have thought of this as a feature ...

Isn’t that the YouTube Music app?

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moralestapia ◴[12 Nov 25 14:25 UTC] No.45900583[source]▶
No.
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1. anamexis ◴[12 Nov 25 14:49 UTC] No.45900918[source]▶
How so? What’s missing?
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3. moralestapia ◴[12 Nov 25 14:58 UTC] No.45901038[source]▶
* Several hundred million tracks that are not labeled as "music" by uploaders, to start.

* Native integration with my phone music player, allowing for things like seamless playback, etc.

* Things I like on YouTube automatically go to my device.

* If a track is removed from YouTube, it stays on my device.

(Did you take 10 seconds to read my comment above?)

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4. anamexis ◴[12 Nov 25 15:23 UTC] No.45901314[source]▶
* Every Youtube video is playable on the Youtube music app.

* There is a liked videos playlist

Yes, I read your comment above.

Regarding the other two points, it is of course understandable why you'd want to download and have your own solution. But that is also obviously not an issue with Google engineers/PMs neglecting to think of a feature.

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5. moralestapia ◴[12 Nov 25 15:50 UTC] No.45901634{3}[source]▶
Great. I'll keep using mine, though.