While trying to find a torrent for a show, I became curious about how others are creating the torrents I know and love. Is ripping a video from a streaming service relatively easy? Are there tools y'all would recommend?
yt-dlp does a great job at ripping on majority of websites. If yt-dlp can't rip something then likely there is service-specific tool to do that i.e tidal-dl for Tidal (hi-fi music service). There's also a hardware method that involves cheap chineese hdmi splitters (it needs to be a cheap one, b/c they lack support for DRM) and hdmi capture card. Sometimes it's DVD or blu-ray ripping.
there is service-specific tool to do that i.e tidal-dl for Tidal (hi-fi music service)
Do you know of any others?
Sadly, no. You can open https://github.com and look for name of service you're intrested in.
You would have to crack DRM if you want to rip from streaming services. See Widevine.
There are multiple classes of security L3, L2 etc and correspondingly harder to bypass.
Fee people know how to bypass it. I guess you can research more about how it works and try to find if you can bypass it.
Thanks for the info! In all likelihood will never pursue this but always happy to learn more about how things work.
