I did some emailing and reached out to the dev who created idiotbox. It
took some investigation but it turns out that youtube reformatted the
json output of the site and search queries. After a few days of coding
it's back to working again.
Youtube well everyone.
gopher://codemadness.org/7/idiotbox.cgi
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Good, but what we need it's a JS-less program
to get YT videos. YT-dlp's interp program
it's turing complete and I could write
a SUBLEQ interpreter with it.
Good, but what we need it's a JS-less program
to get YT videos.
What we need is to have most people upload videos to platforms that
don't try to block file downloads.
Anyone know of any alternatives?
On 23/05/2026 4:13 PM, IanJ wrote:
Anyone know of any alternatives?
xhamster, xvideos and pornhub
none <none@none.rip> wrote:
On 23/05/2026 4:13 PM, IanJ wrote:
Anyone know of any alternatives?
xhamster, xvideos and pornhub
I have my doubts porn sites would be any more willing to let you
download videos to file than YouTube.
Wikipedia lists non-porn video hosts with a "Video downloadable"
column.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_hosting_services
When I wanted a video host I chose Vimeo because it gave me the
option to allow downloads. I don't remember the last time a video I
wanted to watch was on there though. If anything it might be losing
ground to YouTube. Like NNTP and Gopher, most people on the
internet don't care about downloading videos to file, and they're
the same ones choosing where to upload them. At least a few popular
YouTube videos ones get archived at the Internet Archive.
I was mentioning those website simple because they are more useful
than youtube.
There is nothing on youtube that is worth.
It's just addiction to watch nonsense and get excited about some junk
to buy.
You wake up and all is good. Then you watch youtube and somehow you
want upgrade your "gear", get camera, computer, app or live like a
monk in Japan. Fabricated bullshit creating suffering.
I have spoken.
Anthk GM <anthk@disroot.org> wrote:
Good, but what we need it's a JS-less program
to get YT videos. YT-dlp's interp program
it's turing complete and I could write
a SUBLEQ interpreter with it.
Good luck with that, youtube/google are not going to make it easy
for you to take content without watching adverts, which is how both
they and content creators earn money.
For now, a combination of idiotbox, to search for videos, and mpv+yt-dlp,--
to watch them, is saving me going anywhere near the youtube website and having to view almost as much advert as content.
The authors of both are fighting a constant arms race to work around
the continuous changes in order to keep them working.
All power and gratitude to them!
none <none@none.rip> wrote:
I was mentioning those website simple because they are more useful
than youtube.
Are they?
Not only for YT I get updates about channels I want to watch via
Atom/RSS gated to NNTP by Gwene and am experimenting with a local
Feed2Exec to do the same via IMAP.
Ok, without YT account I cannot throw shit into YT comments. I see no
need to miss that. And I cannot see the channel owners' email
addresses, which is the only thing I sometimes miss. When really urgent
I'll dig a bit deeper about contacting Computerphile, Numberphile, and
other brain food channel owners via email.
There is nothing on youtube that is worth.
I contradict. See above. And there are a lot more of maths, science, technology and news channels that fit my wavelength. Sure I'd prefer to
get them via a different service, but DL-ing or viewing videos, using a
media player that can access them or using a massively locked down
browser seems raogood enoughrao for my needs.
It's just addiction to watch nonsense and get excited about some junk
to buy.
You wake up and all is good. Then you watch youtube and somehow you
want upgrade your "gear", get camera, computer, app or live like a
monk in Japan. Fabricated bullshit creating suffering.
Nah. Anton Petrov, Sabine Hossenfelder, Fraser Cain (Universe Today),
... there is a lot that's worth my time. Your kilometre age may vary.
I have spoken.
So too I have!
And I cannot see the channel owners' email
addresses, which is the only thing I sometimes miss. When really urgent
I'll dig a bit deeper about contacting Computerphile, Numberphile, and
other brain food channel owners via email.
On 24/05/2026 8:58 AM, yeti wrote:
And I cannot see the channel owners' email
addresses, which is the only thing I sometimes miss. When really urgent
I'll dig a bit deeper about contacting Computerphile, Numberphile, and
other brain food channel owners via email.
They are not interested in your email ;/ They are interested in $$$.
We have spoken.
That may apply to the shit you consumed. My experiences with STEM topic channels (e.g. Tom Scott, Matt Parker) is different.
Who cares?
Crawl back under your black and white rock where life without grey tones
or beware even colours is easy and everything else non B&W is an enemy.
Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
What we need is to have most people upload videos to platforms that
don't try to block file downloads.
Majority of content creators do it because they get paid through
the advertising. If you make videos freely downloadable then the
source of income is gone and so is the motivation to make content,
for many.
The ones who aren't motivated by money are likely already on platforms
like peertube.tv
There's not a great deal of content to choose from by comparison...
Anyone know of any alternatives?
Many good content creators source revenue from direct donations on
sites like patreon nowdays. They also sell merchandise. Few of them lack
the subscriptions or viewership to make money worth mentioning. And even then, the vids require millions of views to see decent money from the
work. This traffic must be consistent. Then, there's the rat race of
catching the algorithm to attract viewership. Then, there's
shadow-banning [a real thing].
IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> writes:
Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
What we need is to have most people upload videos to platforms that
don't try to block file downloads.
Majority of content creators do it because they get paid through
the advertising. If you make videos freely downloadable then the
source of income is gone and so is the motivation to make content,
for many.
The ones who aren't motivated by money are likely already on platforms
like peertube.tv
There's not a great deal of content to choose from by comparison...
Anyone know of any alternatives?
Many good content creators source revenue from direct donations on
sites like patreon nowdays. They also sell merchandise. Few of them lack
the subscriptions or viewership to make money worth mentioning.
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