port www/youtube_dl

[clutton]

On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 09:07 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The port www/youtube_dl installs as a binary the Youtube downloader in
> 
> # file /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
> /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl: data
> 
> The executeable tends to fail due to changes the provider Youtube does
> in its web page and users tend to update the software theirself by the
> option --update; this connects via HTTPS to:
> 
> 07:36:12.668370 IP 10.32.233.251.31097 > frnk.radius.uk.mediaways.net.domain: 63308+ A? rg3.github.io. (31)
> 07:36:13.214619 IP frnk.radius.uk.mediaways.net.domain > 10.32.233.251.31097: 63308 2/0/0 CNAME github.map.fastly.net., A 185.31.16.133 (82)
> 07:36:13.215016 IP 10.32.233.251.33006 > frnk.radius.uk.mediaways.net.domain: 63309+ AAAA? rg3.github.io. (31)
> 07:36:13.348108 IP 10.32.233.251.57784 > frnk.radius.uk.mediaways.net.domain: 35986+ PTR?  251.233.32.10.in-addr.arpa. (44)
> 07:36:13.514879 IP frnk.radius.uk.mediaways.net.domain > 10.32.233.251.33006: 63309 1/1/0 CNAME github.map.fastly.net. (138)
> 07:36:13.515729 IP 10.32.233.251.14874 > 185.31.16.133.http: Flags [S], seq 3997719834, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,sackOK,TS val 441155 ecr 0], length 0
> ...
> 
> and downloads a new binary version to /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl which
> must be done in addition as root (or root must change the owner of the
> file before).
> 
> This is highly concerning due to 'phoning home' and installing whatever
> (mal-) software or due to DNS redirects to some malware side.
> 
> The Linux friends patch the source to disable the --update option; see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+bug/1063469
> 
> Shouldn't we do the same?
> 
> Thx
> 
> 	matthias

I don't think that this is a big deal. Write to the maintainer first
anyway.

You can also try my firefox addon:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-to-HTML5

Sometime it doesn't work because of youtube ajax nature. Reloading page
will make it work. I doesn't have a time to fix this now. Anyway, it
always works when a new tab opens.
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