GitHub has announced today that YouTube-dl's repository was reinstated after reversing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown from last month. YouTube-dl ...

Youtube-dl, the ubiquitous tool for downloading video from your favorite streaming services, has received its first update since June 6th. We won’t show you the ...

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 ...

The source code for YouTube-dl, a tool you can use to download videos from YouTube, is back up on GitHub after the code repository took it down in October following a ...

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Last month, the GitHub repository for the popular program youtube-dl was taken down in response to a DMCA takedown notice filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The crux of 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...