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helloyanis / file-downloader-unleashed

Download M3U8 live streams to the local disk
https://webextension.org/listing/hls-downloader.html
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Host blacklist #1

Closed trimechee closed 2 months ago

trimechee commented 3 months ago

Hello, thank you again fir this amazing addon ! Mercii beaucoup !

i have question please, i see the list of websites included in the host blacklist :

https://github.com/helloyanis/live-stream-downloader-unleashed/commit/8cf10139f2f4ba5fc280e7fe5c502c8136eab6d0

and i see darkfilms.top, darkfilms.cc....

i was thinking only youtube wes blacklistend beacuse the extension can"t donwload dash streams, but it seems the original extension block also some streaming websites., may be after dmca complaints ?....is this true ?

helloyanis commented 3 months ago

The web is an open place. The only thing this add-on is doing, is requesting the live stream or media file the same way the browser would when reading the media o the page. Even if there was a DMCA complaint, the magic of open-source is that anyone can make a fork and remove the blocklist like I just did. On a side note, blocking download on the extension level is a terrible way to protect it, because

  1. That gives extra work to the add-on maintainers who do this for free, and
  2. The add-on still has full functionality to download stuff, it just will be disabled for specific websites which is really dumb in my opinion
  3. Everything here is completely legal, and anyone should be able to download videos and medias for offline viewing!
trimechee commented 3 months ago

Great, thank you :) and about my other question : can you please tell us where your fork stores the temporary files i.e. in which Firefox folder it temporarily stores the parts of the file being downloaded ? I activated the Windiws 10 option which allows us to show hidden files and maybe we could playback temporary files donwloaded by yout fork before the download is finished, the problem i can't see the temporary file downloaded by the extension...beacuse maybe ine the future the extension will implement sequential donwload so we can preview the dowloaded file, thank you !

trimechee commented 3 months ago

Mr @helloyanis , alhamdoulilAllah i find how to fix the problem of non sequentiel donwload or temprary files hided..just use Cat-catch exension to preview the video wit potplayer and in the setting of the previe in cat catcher , put argument :

"potplayer://${url}/referer=${referer}"

yes i succeded to preveiw the video with live stream download extension with copy paste the video url adress in vlc and potplayer but it worls It only works once or twice, but the cat catch preview option seems to be more effective, I'm doing some tests :)

https://github.com/xifangczy/cat-catch/blob/master/README_en.md