With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn’t be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won’t be able to soon.
What about yt-dlp I wonder? Can we still scrap videos after this?
Probably not. There’s no netflix-dl for a reason.
And yet it’s still ripped and on torrent sites. Not sure how they do it.
DRM code was leaked and decoded few years ago. I have the DRM files of Netflix, Disney+ and all these services. OP is being too doomer.
Yeah that’s on me. I never really looked for netflix downloader type software because everything I’d possibly want to watch on Netflix (not a lot all things considered) is available on torrent. Guess I never really wondered how they rip the videos for torrenting, which in hindsight is kind of obvious.
That reason is you haven’t looked for it.
Indeed. On some websites, Netflix shows are available within minutes or hours after release.