Once upon a time, I thought I saw a guide where yt-dlp can work with CR but for the life of me I can’t find it. Does anyone know if it still works? I have a premium subscription and would like to make sure I still have access to some of my favorite shows should I move out of country.

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
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    26 days ago

    Yt-dlp doesn’t deal with cracking, but by fetching the files from DRM-free endpoints of a given service. And from what I’ve seen in issues from both yt-dlp and Grayjay, such endpoints were all removed in recent months for Crunchyroll (and by extensions, neither support downloading from Crunchyroll anymore).

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      26 days ago

      That explains it. And I’m also guessing that no one has figured out the holy grail of removing the DRM from a legit stream short of screen capturing?

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        26 days ago

        People in scene know methods to decrypt the DRM keys, that’s how we get all those webrips but it’s a well kept secret

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          2 days ago

          So I actually dug into it and got it working! It’s a bit of a rabbit hole to extract the needed keys.

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            22 hours ago

            That is so cool!!

            I went down the rabbit hole a few years ago and couldn’t find anything, ended up wasting my time.

            Mind sharing resources in DM? You can just drop me some nuggets I can figure out rest myself.

            Don’t post publically, don’t want it to be patched out.