Comment by kristopolous
3 years ago
To understand why, I have a far simpler tool that focuses on a subset of sites (adult content video aggregators)
https://github.com/kristopolous/tube-get
It too deals with this problem but does so in a way that'd be easy to maliciously sabotage
Look right about here https://github.com/kristopolous/tube-get/blob/master/tube-ge...
As to why this program exists, this was originally written between about 2010-2015 or so technically predates the yt-* ecosystem.
The tool still works fine and it's not a strict subset of yt-dlp or YouTube-dl because being a different approach, although it's overall site coverage is smaller, I've had it be a "second try" system when yt-* fails and it comes up with success maybe about half the time
Would you mind switching to subprocess with shell=False? os.popen is obsolete and insecure because it passes the command through the shell.
PS: I found it quite easy to contribute to yt-dlp and the reviewers are ultra-helpful and kind, you might want to migrate all of your extractors there.
1. It's ancient code but sure
2. They're fundamentally not compatible approaches. This is worthless to them