Finally some good news in this hellish year. GitHub has restored popular video downloader tool, YouTube-dl, after the company banned it in October. The code hosting platform said that new information ...

While the original YoutTbe-dl repository is still down, there are now hundreds of new forks of it on GitHub and Gitlab. Security engineer Lance Vick noted that programmers have even exploited a bug to ...

Last month, GitHub removed a popular tool that is used to download videos from websites like YouTube after it received a DMCA takedown notice from the Recording Industry Association of America. For a ...

The repository related to the YouTube video downloader 'youtube-dl ' published on GitHub has been deleted at the request of the National Records Association (RIAA ...

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Of course, it is also used when downloading public domain content, but since it is reported that many users are using it to download copyrighted content, the RIAA said 'YouTube'. -Requested removal of ...

GitHub has reinstated youtube-dl, a popular command-line program used by YouTube downloader tools and similar apps. The code was removed last month after the ...

GitHub is reinstating a popular YouTube video downloader called Youtube-dl on its website. GitHub removed Youtube-dl last month, citing a DMCA takedown from the ...

GitHub repo now also hosting YouTube-dl's source code Besides the huge number of new YouTube-dl repos that popped up since October 23, a copy of YouTube-dl's source code was also added to an official ...

GitHub has reversed its decision to boot YouTube-dl, a popular tool for archiving YouTube videos, from its platform. The company restored repositories this week after "additional information" ...