streamlink
Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player (by TopoIogist)
yt-dlp
Fork of youtube-dlc with additional features and fixes [Moved to: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp] (by pukkandan)
| streamlink | yt-dlp | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 52 | |
| 0 | 239 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 9.7 | |
| almost 3 years ago | about 3 years ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | The Unlicense |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
streamlink
Posts with mentions or reviews of streamlink.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-18.
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Youtube-DLG 1.1.2 and Trovo
You're a life-saver! Not sure if it'll help your dev, but streamlink also has a custom extractor for getting their content live.
yt-dlp
Posts with mentions or reviews of yt-dlp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-19.
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YouTube without ads.
yt-dlp (youtube-dl fork) for downloading videos and auto cut sponsored content
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How do I finish this command to create a text file of video addresses of all video's on a channel? youtube-dl -i -o "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" --get-id --skip-download https://www.youtube.com/channel/videos > channel_URL_list.txt
is the way to go in windows. Note that you can make this process much faster for larger channels in yt-dlp using --flat-playlist
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Help automating download from site
In case anyone else is looking for this, this has been added in yt-dlp
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Is it possible to download every video from a YouTube channel?
yt-dlp is the one I use these days following the controversy surrounding the main -dl project.
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Any Versions Currently Working With Vlive Login
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error (caused by ); please report this issue on https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlp on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dlc with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
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Do you guys also have this error?
I have added a --windows-filenames option to yt-dlp to force the filename to be compatible with windows.
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Download a video stream in encrypted form.
Same issue with yt-dlp. I can only get the first segment
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Playlist downloading 0 videos
Another Improved version of Youtube-DL: https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2021.02.15/youtube-dlc.exe
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Need help downloading playlist from a site not yet supported (ELI5 plz)
Same as youtube-dl. Just download the latest release and run it with youtube-dlc instead of youtube-dl
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Can Tartube put the upload date in the title? (+ A few other questions)
For youtube comments, the fork https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlp supports it so you'll have to download it and run a command like:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing streamlink and yt-dlp you can also consider the following projects:
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
lossless-cut - The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
yt-dlc - media downloader and library for various sites.
youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
aria2 - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
TheFrenchGhostys-YouTube-DL-Archivist-Scripts - The ultimate collection of scripts for YouTube-DL. [Moved to: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection]
SponSkrub - Strip advertisements from downloaded YouTube videos
dl-plus-extractor-un1def-goodgame - A dl-plus extractor plugin for GoodGame streaming platform
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