Hi,
I think other people are exaggerating a little bit with YouTube changing
all the time with the explicit purpose of thwarting downloaders and
here's my 2 cents. First, I highly doubt that Google gives YouTube
enough money that YouTube developers have the leisure of having enough
things done on their to do list to afford working on that. Programmers
aren't cheap and thwarting downloaders isn't really a significant risk
to advertisers and stakeholders because there's not enough people doing
it in the world. To get a team of 10 people with proper experience you
need a million dollars a year. Second, my personal record of not
upgrading yt-dlp until it breaks is 2 years. With that in mind, you
might have a fair chance to write something in C that focuses entirely
on YouTube and maybe works for a few months. You can study yt-dlp's
source code to learn what needs to be re-implemented. You'd definitely
want to have libcurl, libxml2, json-c and ffmpeg ready for DOS as
prerequisite of writing your own thing.
If no original work is to be committed, then you could port things until
eventually yt-dlp can run natively on DOS. Here's a short laundry list
of things to port:
- Python 3
- pycryptodome
- gpep517
- hatchling
- ffmpeg
You may have to port even more things, as this only scratches the surface.
Best regards,
Michał
W dniu 22.03.2025 o 06:10, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user pisze:
Hi All,
Simply curious if anyone has such a project?
A freedos or other dos port of say something like Yt-dlp?
Best,
Karen
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