I am getting the following error after upgrading yt-dlp
ERROR: [Piracy] This website is no longer supported since it has been determined to be primarily used for piracy. DO NOT open issues for it
Does anyone know any forks that still works.
Time to fork it with a non pussyfied version
A plugin for yt-dlp will suffice. It’s also easier to maintain.
Maybe you can find some more discussion and the reasoning in their documentation or Github issues or pull requests. I bet this has been discussed before someone implemented it. Maybe there’s also a way to restore the old behaviour.
There is, they added plugin support. See my top level comment for details
This isn’t going to make the copyright holders hate them any less.
But it IS giving the copyright holders less attack surface to bite into. Haters gonna hate, let them.
See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/yt-dlp-error-piracy-this-website-is-no-longer-supported.93995/ for some pertinent comments.
See list of forks here https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/forks. If you find one that works, let us know.
Wow really? That’s kind of a shitty stance for them to take.
True, but sadly the kind of one they must take to avoid being hit with a cease and desist.
They know someone will fork it. Playing it safe is smart
From whom? The piracy site owners?
Copyright troll. They even hit manga reader app. Not even distribute any material, just a reader. Just because can load manga from piracy site.
I don’t think a fork will solve anything. I’m pretty sure the reason they did this is to cover their asses (don’t forget that it was very near to being taken down just a few years ago).
Further, yt-dlp has implemented plugin support, for this exact reason. I think that’s a new feature compared to youtube-dl. You can add your own extractors as plugins, wherever you find them. As I remember there are a few plugins that are even maintained by a yt-dlp maintainer.
If you find this to be ok or better, please consider changing the title to let those know about what’s happening who have already read the post, because they wouldn’t know it otherwise.