node-ytdl-core vs youtube-archiver

node-ytdl-core

YouTube video downloader in javascript. (by fent)

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youtube-archiver

An easy and quick way to archive YouTube videos through a web interface (by hwgilbert16)

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node-ytdl-core		youtube-archiver
	Project
15	Mentions	1
4,280	Stars	21
-	Growth	-
2.8	Activity	0.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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node-ytdl-core

Posts with mentions or reviews of node-ytdl-core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-03.

Simple Youtube Downloader in under 50 Javascript lines
1 project | dev.to | 4 Nov 2023

ytdl-core for streaming from Youtube
Nextjs ytdl-core youtube downloader
1 project | /r/nextjs | 25 Jun 2023

I have the same problem, opened an issue: https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core/issues/1236
HOW TO CREATE VIDEO/AUDIO YOUTUBE DOWNLOADER USING JAVASCRIPT AND NODEJS
4 projects | dev.to | 3 Nov 2022

Ytdl-core(YouTube download module created with Javascript for Nodejs)
GUI Youtube Downloader especially for Linux
3 projects | /r/linux | 27 Aug 2022

Looks like https://www.npmjs.com/package/ytdl-core is doing your heavy lifting and unless that's a port of yt-dlp I just don't see it. Can you point me to the right place?
I created a command line tool to download high quality music
1 project | dev.to | 10 Aug 2022

I had made a Discord bot to stream music in a voice channel. The bot would use youtube-sr to run a search query, and ytdl-core would download the audio and stream. Pretty simple right?
Make TikToks with JavaScript 1
6 projects | dev.to | 11 Jul 2022

Ytdl-core
Add-On That Can Record Just The Audio From A YouTube Video?
1 project | /r/firefox | 24 Jun 2022

Looking at the "helper" repo https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core there is the mention of support for live videos
“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2022
❗Slow Download Speed in 4K Video Downloader/4K YouTube to MP3❗
1 project | /r/4kdownloadapps | 19 Oct 2021
How to Make Personal Music Bot?
2 projects | /r/GroovyBot | 2 Sep 2021

I made a private one for my friends server using discord.js and node-ytdl. If you prefer a different language then just search for “discord bot library ” and “youtube download library ” and you can likely figure out the rest.

youtube-archiver

Posts with mentions or reviews of youtube-archiver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-29.

I made an open source YouTube Video Archiver
2 projects | /r/homelab | 29 Jun 2021

I'm happy to announce that I've completed it, and for the purpose of not repeating myself, information about the downloading and usage of it can be found at the GitHub repository: https://github.com/hwgilbert16/youtube-archiver

What are some alternatives?

When comparing node-ytdl-core and youtube-archiver you can also consider the following projects:

ffmpeg.wasm - FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

readable-stream - Node-core streams for userland

Node.CLI-Progress - :hourglass: easy to use progress-bar for command-line/terminal applications

youtube-music - YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)

YoutubeVideoDownloader - It downloads videos, what more do you want?

ytmdesktop - A Desktop App for YouTube Music

itchio-godot-scraper - A scraper for Godot games hosted on https://itch.io.

FireDM - python open source (Internet Download Manager) with multi-connections, high speed engine, based on python, LibCurl, and youtube_dl https://github.com/firedm/FireDM

discord.js - A powerful JavaScript library for interacting with the Discord API

nba-topshop-scraper - Node script that will use Selenium to scrape card information from NBA Topshot including card names, rarity, and lowest cost at the moment. Data is scraped once per day.