youtube-dl-android VS yt-dlp

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Not sure how this might (not) be presented in other contexts, but when I go to the main repository page on a desktop browser, there's a "Sponsor this project" box in the rightmost layout column that links to a Markdown file with Ko-Fi and/or GitHub Sponsor links for the individual maintainers [1].

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/Collaborators.m...

to the best of my knowledge, that's because your system does not have ffmpeg for subsequent transcoding of the site's format into what you would consider "your" format: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/2023.07.06/README.md#s... (they also allow you to specify the path, if you don't have it in your $PATH, via --ffmpeg-location <https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/2023.07.06/README.md?p...>)

One example is a script to quickly grab the URL of the current tab and send it to mpv¹ for playing or yt-dlp² for downloading. Or send some JavaScript to that same tab. Or grab the URLs and titles of all tabs in all windows that match a specific domain, close them, and then reopen in a brand new window. Alfred³ has a ton of automations that allow you to do that without having to code it yourself.

¹ https://mpv.io

² https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

³ https://www.alfredapp.com

docker run -it --name ubuntu-mantic -v path/to/your/videodir/:/VideosDir ubuntu:mantic /bin/bash

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Install stuff needed on the container, typically curl python3 etc and the install from GitHub: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

and you're good to go. I've honestly found this easier than fighting with my host system and constantly reinstalling broken versions etc.

i installed `yt-dlp` once with:

    $ wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp && chmod +x yt-dlp && mv yt-dlp "$HOME/bin/"

Right, I found that in the subreddit, and furthermore here's release files

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#release-files

I downloaded the release binary for linux, and it's downloading now.

Thank you.

As noted in the article, the project still has a page on github:

http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/

I've moved on to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp anyways.

But this is still an infuriating move. youtube-dl wasn't doing anything infringing on its site, was it?

I noticed recently that my distro's youtube-dl stopped working (it can't successfully download movies) but thanks to news like this one I found a fix in one of the comments here:

> I've moved on to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp anyways

Thanks!