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Go try Media Downloader Unleashed!!

If you want to download .m3u8 streams, audio and video files embedded on websites, go give it a try and tell me what you think!

Any feedback (both positive and negative) is apreciated!

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[–] villainy@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I can't tell if this is actually a new project or if you forked, extended, and changed the license of an existing MPL 2.0 project. The latter would be a bad thing.

You have a commit titled "Full rewrite!!" but I'm not about to go do a comparison to see how "full" it is. If it is indeed a complete clean reimplementation then I would recommend making it a new project so it doesn't look like you took someone's FOSS code and relicensed it for yourself.

[–] helloyanis@jlai.lu 30 points 3 weeks ago

This started as a fork but was fully rewritten from scratch. No code is used from the original repo, so I also chose to make the license more premissive.

See this commit!

You have some good points but if I made a new repo from scratch, it would break many links, including links in the add-on's store page, the add-on itself and search engines. It would also kill every watcher/issue/PR etc so I don't think it's really a good idea.

If you have a clean solution to solve this I'd love to hear it!

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Full rewrites do happen. The first commit of PiKVM is a copy of my repo: https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm/commit/70eebd5c59da26dc3f6ad56730adbb616055f4e5#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5R4. I was referenced there for a long time before eventually being removed, and I'm pretty sure by then my code had been fully rewritten.

Though I did find it funny when LTT covered them and said they complained about a copycat who wasn't giving them credit 😆

[–] zo0@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yay I was looking for something like this! Thanks!

[–] helloyanis@jlai.lu 3 points 3 weeks ago

You're welcome! Happy to help!!

[–] mooncake@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's nice but the UI could be prettier imo.

[–] helloyanis@jlai.lu 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's some specific elements of the UI you dislike and how would you improve it?

[–] mooncake@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll look on my PC later was on my phone

[–] helloyanis@jlai.lu 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

UI on mobile is important as well!

Right now some buttons are overflowing but it should still be mostly fine.

For anyone wondering how it looks :

[–] mooncake@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would put copy URL, preview and download in 1 line try make it more compact think it's too big right now but the extension works great!

[–] helloyanis@jlai.lu 2 points 3 weeks ago

True, that's how it looks on PC, I haven't managed to trick Material UI Web yet to display those in 1 line on mobile

[–] velummortis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] helloyanis@jlai.lu 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] helloyanis@jlai.lu 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

After looking it up, yes it's a bit like IDM (Internet Download Manager) but has less features (like it's not separating which files are audio, video... yet?), however it's available on mobile as well so there's that