Re: [PATCH] emms-info-ytdl

[Daniel Semyonov]

>>>>> Yoni Rabkin writes:

    > Konstantin <reichcv@gmail.com> writes:
    >> Hello,
    >> 
    >> Few years ago Yuchen Pei started to develop emms-info-ytdl (branch
    >> info-ytdl), which provides info for links like:
    >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=.....
    >> 
    >> I do not know why these changes where not accepted in master.
    >> Perhaps it is because ytdl is called synchronously, and therefore
    >> emms-info-ytdl freezes Emacs.

    > You would need to dive into these threads to read the backstory:
    > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emms-help/2022-03/msg00035.html
    > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-03/msg00754.html

    > If the situation has changed in the interim, I'm willing to reconsider
    > merging it into Emms.

Using yt-dlp with Invidious or Piped just makes it redirect the requests
to Youtube, and I haven't looked too deep into it but there's still a
JavaScript interpreter included in yt-dlp which is imported by the
Youtube extractor (so it is very likely to still run JavaScript code
locally in order to function).

It's a shame really, as yt-dlp supports many sites other than Youtube,
but obviously using an info method in EMMS should never run non-free
code automatically.

Daniel