Just to add a data point, but back when I still was working for a video distribution startup, we offered our customers the ability to directly import their video inventory from YouTube. They were the owners of the videos, it was just a convenient (and very popular!) feature for them to let us handle this import.
We used YouTube-dl for this, of course. No way we could have done this easily without it. We imported hundreds of thousands of videos like this.
I suspect there are many more legitimate uses of YouTube-dl than you would expect.
We used YouTube-dl for this, of course. No way we could have done this easily without it. We imported hundreds of thousands of videos like this.
I suspect there are many more legitimate uses of YouTube-dl than you would expect.