Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> 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 -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
