Where can I donate for this project?

[sunxvogy]

Hi, youtube-dl helps me a lot, Where can I donate for this project?

[yasoob]

Hi @sunxvogy currently youtube-dl does not have any donation system set up.

[phihag]

Thank you very much for your enthusiasm. Fortunately, our costs (currently paid privately by myself) are rather minimal:

• 24€/year for yt-dl.org (server / bandwidth / domain)
• 12€/year for more domains (youtube-dl.org and youtube-dl.net, we don't really need those, but they're nice)
• About 10€/year for build / test servers, only spun up when needed.
• About 120€+200$/year for various private test servers (to diagnose locality-based problems), but these are really part of my personal network

I'm fortunate enough that I can just cover these modest expenses out of pocket and don't need any donations. Since we don't have any legal entity organizing it, we're sorry, but we can't accept monetary donations at the moment. If you want, you can contribute to our server infrastructure by wiring money to the uberspace account (German instructions):

(edited 2020/09/26: removed donation info due to legal concerns)

I'll think about whether it makes sense to have a formal donation process (this would probably involve founding a foundation or other legal entity). In the meantime, your praise and any help in diagnosing problems, improving the code are enough for us ;)

Thanks!

[phihag]

I'm closing this issue for now, since our posts should hopefully answered the original question, but I'm thinking about adding an FAQ or so for that. Thanks again for the praise!

[sunxvogy]

It is hard to use wire transfer here... is there a paypal account for youtube-dl donation? Also, I will do my best on diagnosing problems and improving it :)

[phihag]

(edited 2020/09/26: links to PayPal and the donation page removed for legal concerns)

Again, thanks for the support!

[yasoob]

@phihag you should add the link to that donation page on yt-dl.org and on http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ . This will facilitate the donators.

[phihag]

@yasoob The low profile (for now) is intentional. When we redesign or rework the web page, we'll think about including the donations button somewhere.

[sunxvogy]

Done :)

[phihag]

Thank you very much!