Tzahi12345 / YoutubeDL-Material

Self-hosted YouTube downloader built on Material Design
MIT License
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Dead Project / Alternatives? #1135

Open SinisterCrayon opened 1 month ago

SinisterCrayon commented 1 month ago

It's looking like this project is dead. No real activity in about a year and the author/owner doesn't appear to have done anything with it. There are also a number of bugs that aren't getting looked at, some of which are going to render the tool inoperable soon for most people because of YouTube's clamping down on automated download tools. If you haven't been hit by the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" problem then you will be... this is a problem that can be easily worked around with YT-DLP but at the moment there's no way to inject the appropriate extractor-args into this tool without changing the code (something I'm not familiar enough with the code to do).

Are there any alternatives or forks of this that might be workable and maybe fix some of the bugs?

SickProdigy commented 1 month ago

tubearchivist is pretty good. This project isn't dead, i just have issues with adding 1k+ video channels. Tubearchivist is also pretty hefty compared. Also interested in other alts

SinisterCrayon commented 1 month ago

Thanks. I installed TubeArchivist and it seems to be a much better and more reliable alternative.

I do love this project and think it has great potential, but I disagree; I think it's dead. No commits or activity in a while despite a number of glaring bugs and issues.

yllekz commented 1 week ago

My problem with TubeArchivist is that it doesn't quite behave like youtubedl-material though. Theoretically it can do all the same things but it's kind of obtuse, at least the last time I tried it. I wish this project got some more love, because when it worked, it worked well.