Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams

meindnoch•about 2 hours ago

Auto-generated sequence diagrams are almost always useless. This one is no different.

bt1a•about 2 hours ago

"Auto-generated"? As in... a defined translation from one abstraction layer to another? Disagree

Retr0id•20 minutes ago

> Disclaimer: [...] generated using an LLM and may contain inaccuracies.

risyachka•5 minutes ago

Speaks a lot about the HN audience that upvotes these kinds of articles

TacticalCoder•12 minutes ago

BTW the year is 2026 and we've got LLMs, is there, at long last, an easy way to have an YouTube downloader I can run in a container (say with Podman) that actually works?

Do I need to be logged in with a Google account for it to work?

I always, since decades I want to say, ran into troubles whenever I download Youtube vids (no matter which tool I use, yt-dlp or other). It works, then doesn't anymore.

Are you simply, reliably, downloading Youtube vids? How? From a VM? From a container? From your main machine while being logged on?

P.S: congrats to the guys at Google, you sure made that hard

amlib•4 minutes ago

You always had to keep whatever youtube video downloader you were using updated at a minimum. For a good while login cookies were only required for downloading restricted videos (whatever youtube considered 18+). Now you need half a web browser to do anything and the update cadence is even crazier.

sampullman•4 minutes ago

Somebody is doing it, given all the ad ridden free YouTube download sites that exist.

felooboolooomba•about 2 hours ago

Arrows need to be thicker. "Bold" doesn't work. Nitpick: "bold" doesn't really make sense in opacity settings.

albert_e•about 2 hours ago

is there a "format" of describing an architetcure/design in such a way that it lens itself to such visualization?

itsfarseen-1•about 2 hours ago

How was this created?

billyp-rva•about 2 hours ago

Hi, author here. The app itself (Ilograph[0]) is fairly old; its first ShowHN was in 2019.

These particular yt-dlp diagrams were an experiment in getting meaningful sequence diagrams from a code repo using Claude. If you open the black tab on the left, you can see the source of the diagrams. Claude was able to generate most of this, albeit with a good amount of back-and-forth to get the details right, plus some manual tweaking in the end.

[0] https://www.ilograph.com

embedding-shape•about 2 hours ago

Kind of despised the way you didn't even let me see a preview of my own created graph without having to signup, and the signup prompt didn't show up until I fixed the mistakes in the YAML. So I pasted something (generated), spent some minutes fixing the mistakes, then get hit with a signup prompt, before being able to see the graph... Just be upfront with the signup requirement, don't let me edit anything, if you're gonna gate it like that.

billyp-rva•about 1 hour ago

Thanks for the heads up; that shouldn't have been happening. Please try again.

mike_hock•about 1 hour ago

Hey guys, look at what I didn't make. I paid money to have someone/something else do it.

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