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.

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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).

[–] ramble81@ani.social 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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?

[–] tfowinder@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ramble81@ani.social 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] tfowinder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days 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.

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