clipgrab

[faeychild]

Until very recently I used clipgrab to download Youtube video. It
started to get picky and now refuses completely

"No video found"

Google suggests that this was a problem with MGA8, well, more with
Youtube shifting the goalposts.
David suggested some pretty hands on solutions and I found another one
involving Github.
I've avoided Github so far, a bit above my pay grade

Has anyone else blundered into this and fixed it

[David W. Hodgins]

Post by faeychild
Until very recently I used clipgrab to download Youtube video. It
started to get picky and now refuses completely
"No video found"
Google suggests that this was a problem with MGA8, well, more with
Youtube shifting the goalposts.
David suggested some pretty hands on solutions and I found another one
involving Github.
I've avoided Github so far, a bit above my pay grade
Has anyone else blundered into this and fixed it

If m8 doesn't have a version of yt-dlp that works, you'll probably have to upgrade to m9.

$ rpm -q --requires yt-dlp
python(abi) = 3.10
python3.10dist(brotli)
python3.10dist(certifi)
python3.10dist(mutagen)
python3.10dist(pycryptodomex)
python3.10dist(requests) >= 2.31
python3.10dist(urllib3) >= 1.26.17
python3.10dist(websockets) >= 12
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PartialHardlinkSets) <= 4.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsZstd) <= 5.4.18-1

The m9 version of yt-dlp might work on m8, but would probably need the python packages
too.

yt-dlp is a command line program. Type in ""yt-dlp ", then copy/paste the url for the youtube
video do download it.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

[Markus Robert Kessler]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 20:26:13 -0500, faeychild

Post by faeychild
Until very recently I used clipgrab to download Youtube video. It
started to get picky and now refuses completely
"No video found"
Google suggests that this was a problem with MGA8, well, more with
Youtube shifting the goalposts.
David suggested some pretty hands on solutions and I found another one
involving Github.
I've avoided Github so far, a bit above my pay grade
Has anyone else blundered into this and fixed it

If m8 doesn't have a version of yt-dlp that works, you'll probably have to upgrade to m9.
$ rpm -q --requires yt-dlp python(abi) = 3.10 python3.10dist(brotli)
python3.10dist(certifi)
python3.10dist(mutagen)
python3.10dist(pycryptodomex)
python3.10dist(requests) >= 2.31 python3.10dist(urllib3) >= 1.26.17
python3.10dist(websockets) >= 12 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PartialHardlinkSets) <= 4.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadIsZstd) <=
5.4.18-1
The m9 version of yt-dlp might work on m8, but would probably need the
python packages too.
yt-dlp is a command line program. Type in ""yt-dlp ", then copy/paste
the url for the youtube video do download it.
Regards, Dave Hodgins

Hello everyone,

I was also heavily using "yt-dlp" out of official repository.
But as google / yt started to change the behaviour more and more
frequently, it turned out that the rpm, once updated, will always be
outdated soon. Current version is from August 2024, and around 2-3 weeks
ago they again changed the way yt works (you get told from yt to sign on
to verify your age, or so).

So, some people created a project, solely dedicated to write an
alternative and keep it uptodate:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases

I can really recommend this, and it is not depending on the OS version.

Best regards,

Markus

[TJ]

 Until very recently I used clipgrab to download Youtube video. It
started to get picky and now refuses completely
"No video found"
Google suggests that this was a problem with MGA8, well, more with
Youtube shifting the goalposts.
David suggested some pretty hands on solutions and I found another one
involving Github.
I've avoided Github so far, a bit above my pay grade
Has anyone else blundered into this and fixed it

It stopped working for me with MGA9, at around the same time, in the
same way. I filed a Mageia bug report on it, so it's in the hands of the
developers now.

See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33939

I had an alternative method, a Firefox extension called "Video
DownloadHelper." It's more ponderous than Clipgrab, but it did work. I
say "did" because it quit working on Youtube about two days after
Clipgrab did.

TJ

[faeychild]

Post by TJ
It stopped working for me with MGA9, at around the same time, in the
same way. I filed a Mageia bug report on it, so it's in the hands of the
developers now.
See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33939
I had an alternative method, a Firefox extension called "Video
DownloadHelper." It's more ponderous than Clipgrab, but it did work. I
say "did" because it quit working on Youtube about two days after
Clipgrab did.
TJ

Absolutely correct!,TJ my timeline exactly.

Should I assume that Youtube does not agree with the downloading of
their content or they enjoy messing with your mind - like Microsoft

[TJ]

Post by faeychild

Post by TJ
It stopped working for me with MGA9, at around the same time, in the
same way. I filed a Mageia bug report on it, so it's in the hands of
the developers now.
See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33939
I had an alternative method, a Firefox extension called "Video
DownloadHelper." It's more ponderous than Clipgrab, but it did work. I
say "did" because it quit working on Youtube about two days after
Clipgrab did.
TJ

Absolutely correct!,TJ my timeline exactly.
Should I assume that Youtube does not agree with the downloading of
their content or they enjoy  messing with your mind - like Microsoft

Possibly both.

TJ