On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 3:53 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2017/02/14 18:54, Amit Kulkarni wrote: >> >> like every two weeks, ydl is broken, and the bi-weekly-or-so update >> >> fixes it.. ok ? >> > >> > ok. >> >> Its a race to force users to view their ads... >> >> > I wonder how get-flash-videos manages to stay working though.. >> > >> >> Nobody cares about Flash any more? :) YT might have also stopped caring. >> > > This mail doesn't make much sense. youtube-dl and get-flash-vidoes are > doing basically the same thing, scraping the video website so they can > download videos. (the "flash" in get-flash-videos is as much a misnomer > as the "youtube" in youtube-dl, they both work for multiple sites, many > of which don't actually need Flash any more). One tends to stay working > through youtube changes, the other doesn't. >
sorry for the noise!
