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faeychild
24 days ago
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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
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David W. Hodgins
24 days ago
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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
24 days ago
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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outdated soon.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
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TJ
24 days ago
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 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
24 days ago
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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
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TJ
23 days ago
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Possibly both.

TJ
TJ
19 days ago
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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.
FWIW, the above Video DownloadHelper issued an update a day or two
ago,and is now working with Youtube again.

TJ
TJ
18 days ago
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 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
A Mageia 9 update to yt-dlp has been tested and approved, and it appears
to fix the Clipgrab issue. There's some administrative tasks that still
need to be done, but it should be released in a day or two.

TJ
faeychild
18 days ago
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A Mageia 9 update to yt-dlp has been tested and approved, and it appears
to fix the Clipgrab issue. There's some administrative tasks that still
need to be done, but it should be released in a day or two.
TJ
Thanks TJ
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Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64
faeychild
16 days ago
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A Mageia 9 update to yt-dlp has been tested and approved, and it appears
to fix the Clipgrab issue. There's some administrative tasks that still
need to be done, but it should be released in a day or two.
TJ
It showed up this morning in the update and we're back on the road

How many months do you give the reprieve?
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TJ
16 days ago
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Post by TJ
A Mageia 9 update to yt-dlp has been tested and approved, and it
appears to fix the Clipgrab issue. There's some administrative tasks
that still need to be done, but it should be released in a day or two.
TJ
It showed up this morning in the update and we're back on the road
How many months do you give the reprieve?
That's entirely up to Alphabet. (Parent company of Google, Youtube, etc.)

TJ
faeychild
16 days ago
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That's entirely up to Alphabet. (Parent company of Google, Youtube, etc.)
TJ
Does it serve a purpose or are they just practicing code?

We'll change , see how long it takes you to get around it
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TJ
15 days ago
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Post by TJ
That's entirely up to Alphabet. (Parent company of Google, Youtube, etc.)
TJ
Does it serve a purpose or are they just practicing code?
We'll change , see how long it takes you to get around it
They want you to have to watch on Youtube itself, so they can collect
advertising revenue, or a subscription fee. If you can download a video,
and watch it elsewhere, they collect nothing.

TJ
faeychild
13 days ago
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They want you to have to watch on Youtube itself, so they can collect
advertising revenue, or a subscription fee. If you can download a video,
and watch it elsewhere, they collect nothing.
TJ
Yes All true.
The vast majority of YT is watched live. Just the occasional clip is
downloaded.. But I see their point.
I wonder how much revenue these downloads cost them.
For academic curiosity how difficult is it to detect the difference
between a normal stream and download grab.
For a difficult TV channel stream I had to resort to a screen record.
It ties up the computer, but it works
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Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64
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