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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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).
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?
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
Don’t know tbh
IIRC Crunchyroll used to be a pirate site so that may be where you heard that? But they’ve been legit for years.
I would say just look for x265 (HEVC) webrips of your favorite content and throw it on a Plex (or Jellyfin if you don’t have any Apple stuff) server. On the flip, if you have all Apple tech, Infuse is a good option, but IIRC it doesn’t stream outside your network like the other two do.
I have premium and I just prefer to pull straight from the source rather than getting a rip someone else did. It lets me customize the highest quality I want. I’ve used Zotify and usually rip straight from BDs normally too, but it sounds like I might just have to find the webrips like you said.
