yt-dlp VS aria2

Compare yt-dlp vs aria2 and see what are their differences.

yt-dlp

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

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. (by aria2)
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yt-dlp aria2
52 114
239 33,246
- 1.7%
9.7 7.7
about 3 years ago 4 days ago
Python C++
The Unlicense 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.

aria2

Posts with mentions or reviews of aria2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing yt-dlp and aria2 you can also consider the following projects:

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

axel - Lightweight CLI download accelerator

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

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

libcurl - A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

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

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

Transmission - Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository

jdownloader-portable - 🌎 JDownloader in PortableApps.com format — https://github.com/EIGHTFINITE/jdownloader-portable/tags | https://portableapps.com/node/53823 | https://jdownloader.org/

pyLoad - The free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python

reverse-proxy-confs - These confs are pulled into our SWAG image: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag

FFmpeg-Builds - FFmpeg Builds for yt-dlp