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Discussion on: How to download youtube video as audio using python

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Michael Currin • Edited

Important to mention - even if it is available on PyPI as the link you provided, this is controversial library to use.

It was taken off of GitHub for legal reasons as per notice:

github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

And if you try to distribute the app on GitHub yourself you can get banned

xda-developers.com/github-warns-of...

People also protested the ban as per the notice there.

So it is good to be aware of this and share the info with others where it matters in this context, so they can make informed decisions.

BTW There are also browser extensions which download YT videos so there are other ways to do it which exist.

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lesha 🟨⬛️

Not really in a mood to host anything on github anymore. I'd rather pay five bucks for VPS and host my own git server and only have github as a mirror

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Michael Currin

GitHub restored the repo thenextweb.com/dd/2020/11/17/githu...

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Jordan Kalebu

Yeah I see .. good news for we developers