Re: Emms and youtube-dl

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Initially, I rejected the code because I thought that youtube-dl runs
  > non-free javascript. But that FSF article says it does not. But still
  > the other reasons in the article, mainly that youtube-dl is a fragile
  > web-scraping kludge to access a resource which isn't committed to free
  > access, I am hesitant to add the code.

I think your view of the situation is valid.  Adding support for
youtube-scraping is likely to be bad for maintenance.

  > I would much rather code which supports freedom-respecting video sites
  > exclusively (if such sites exist, I don't know, it isn't something I
  > look for.)

Perhaps you could access youtube videos via the invidio.us proxies.  I
don't know whether this can be done without scraping, or whether it
has a documented API, but maybe it does.

Perhaps peertube offers a documented API you could use.

Perhaps archive.org  offers a documented API you could use
for SOME of its videos.  It won't be all of them.

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