Re: (was Re: Adding a description text property for a track) non-free javascript and ytdl

[Yoni Rabkin]

Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:

> I realized that I don't know a lot about ytdl/youtube-dl and went to
> have a look. As a result, I came across a potential show-stopper for
> inclusion in Emms in any form.
>
> I was concerned when I saw that ytdl/youtube-dl has a javascript
> interpreter built-in.
>
> I found the following thread that reports that ytdl/youtube-dl downloads
> and runs non-free javascript automatically as part of accessing the
> sites it supports:
> https://trisquel.info/en/forum/do-youtube-dlhtml5-video-everywhere-run-nonfree-js
>
> The thread is from back in 2017. Is this still the case? If so, is there
> a libre version of ytdl?

I bit more research reveals that this concern is real. Apparently there
is a fork called hypervideo which removes the non-free parts:
https://notabug.org/heckyel/hypervideo

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