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Google just broke all third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.org/post/1872634

So, starting now, Google started mandating full JS for YT, effectively breaking all third-party clients and locking the site to their official client.

This reeks of DRM.

UPDATE: Installing Deno and installing yt-dlp through PyPi fixes yt-dlp but the very idea that Google is mandating JS to lock down YT in an attempt at pseudo-DRM is still crappy.

UPDATE #2: inv.nadeko.net is working again for now.

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[+] -7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

It’s annoying but I guess they’re just evolving their anti spam mechanisms, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.

JS is one of the most popular scripting languages anyway so having it as a requirement shouldn’t hinder anyone.

And not to throw shade at the people who designed yt-dlp, but designing a tool to “scrap” the content of an evolving platform in a different language (with different tooling etc) than the one said platform is expecting to be consumed by might have been a mistake

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    anti spam? on the video player? you cannot think is seriously.

    JS is one of the most popular scripting languages anyway so having it as a requirement shouldn’t hinder anyone.

    except any of the clients that care about not running whatever untrusted google code in an unrestricted environment.

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