yt-dlp vs SponSkrub

yt-dlp

Fork of youtube-dlc with additional features and fixes [Moved to: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp] (by pukkandan)

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SponSkrub

Strip advertisements from downloaded YouTube videos (by faissaloo)

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yt-dlp		SponSkrub
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52	Mentions	9
239	Stars	175
-	Growth	-
9.7	Activity	0.0
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Python	Language	D
The Unlicense	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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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.

YouTube without ads.
2 projects | /r/techsupport | 19 Mar 2021

yt-dlp (youtube-dl fork) for downloading videos and auto cut sponsored content
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
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 23 Feb 2021

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
Help automating download from site
2 projects | /r/youtubedl | 22 Feb 2021

In case anyone else is looking for this, this has been added in yt-dlp
Is it possible to download every video from a YouTube channel?
2 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 21 Feb 2021

yt-dlp is the one I use these days following the controversy surrounding the main -dl project.
Any Versions Currently Working With Vlive Login
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 21 Feb 2021

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.
Do you guys also have this error?
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 17 Feb 2021

I have added a --windows-filenames option to yt-dlp to force the filename to be compatible with windows.
Download a video stream in encrypted form.
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 16 Feb 2021

Same issue with yt-dlp. I can only get the first segment
Playlist downloading 0 videos
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 16 Feb 2021

Another Improved version of Youtube-DL: https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2021.02.15/youtube-dlc.exe
Need help downloading playlist from a site not yet supported (ELI5 plz)
4 projects | /r/youtubedl | 16 Feb 2021

Same as youtube-dl. Just download the latest release and run it with youtube-dlc instead of youtube-dl
Can Tartube put the upload date in the title? (+ A few other questions)
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 15 Feb 2021

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:

SponSkrub

Posts with mentions or reviews of SponSkrub. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-23.

Youtube is up to 4 ads
4 projects | /r/mildlyinfuriating | 23 Mar 2022
Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2021

Has anyone managed to build/install sponskrub for the Raspberry Pi 4?
https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub
youtube-dl is (possibly) dead
12 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 22 Aug 2021
How do you install sponskrub in termux?
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 14 Aug 2021

If asking for UNIX, just download the release from here: https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub/releases/tag/3.7.2
Automatically crop intro and outro?
3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 6 Aug 2021

For somewhat popular videos, SponsorBlock API can be used to do this. sponskrub is a commandline tool that implements this and my youtube-dl fork yt-dlp has integration with sponskrub
Maybe an Improvement for YouTube-DL
3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 27 Apr 2021

You can use sponskrub after the video has been downloaded
yt-dlp release 2021.02.09
6 projects | /r/youtubedl | 10 Feb 2021

Unfortunately it won't be implemented...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing yt-dlp and SponSkrub you can also consider the following projects:

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

widevine-l3-decryptor - Mirror of the original repo

streamlink - Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player

lossless-cut - The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

youtube-dl-wpf - A simple GUI wrapper for youtube-dl and yt-dlp.

yt-dlc - media downloader and library for various sites.

youtube - Download media or send API requests

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.

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

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]

youtube-dl-gui - A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.