Downloads empty files #9
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Thanks for the report! I can confirm this. I haven't worked on this library lately but I'll see what I can do. |
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Actually, it looks like YouTube messed up with a few videos. Some other ones like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuEHqk8M6Fc download okay. |
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The video I tried, worked with pafy and not rafy. I think it was this one
https://youtu.be/M_j1LP9q_Ew
I'm away now so can't share code but I can this evening.
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Actually, it looks like YouTube messed up with a few videos. Some other
ones like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuEHqk8M6Fc download okay.
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It looks like pafy works with that video only when youtube-dl backend is enabled. It won't work for me if backend is set to internal. To support these videos in rafy, we're going to have to set up youtube-dl backend as well just like pafy. |
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Is there no other way? (i.e. what is |
YouTube keeps undergoing changes I can't possibly keep track of and make appropriate fixes ASAP. youtube-dl manages that pretty good and personally I think we should try our best to avoid duplicate effort.
I am not sure at the moment. I'll have to take a deeper look as I haven't worked with FFI much before.
I am willing to accept PRs but I'll also integrate myself when I set my mood on it. :) |
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Ok, I looked into it and seems like we can do it with cpython. I will try to implement it. |
In this example in the docs,
download()downloads only empty files. I got the same result personally when I tried to download an audiostream.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: