youtube-browser-extension VS yt-dlp-server

Compare youtube-browser-extension vs yt-dlp-server and see what are their differences.

yt-dlp-server

Web / REST interface for downloading YouTube videos and saving them as MP3s (by frznman)
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youtube-browser-extension yt-dlp-server
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JavaScript Python
MIT License MIT License
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youtube-browser-extension

Posts with mentions or reviews of youtube-browser-extension. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-28.

yt-dlp-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of yt-dlp-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-28.
  • Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2022
    Something like this: https://github.com/frznman/yt-dlp-server

    In my case I stuck my instance (not that exact software but similar) behind Caddy and added basic auth. Then I just setup Shortcuts or bookmarklets that just did:

        curl -X POST --data-urlencode "url={{url}}" http://{{address}}:8080/yt/q

What are some alternatives?

When comparing youtube-browser-extension and yt-dlp-server you can also consider the following projects:

Telik - macOS app to track YouTube channels and playlists

youtube - a static site with my youtube subscriptions deployed via Github Actions with a cronjob

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

FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

scripts - Various python scripts

Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.