youtube-dl VS youtube-dl-gui

I see. According to the Web Archive, this website stopped working all the way in November 2023, and http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ now contains all the same content as the old one and is the new "official" website.

youtube-dl is still a thing, last commit was one week ago.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commits/master

> Is there a service that actually gives MP3 downloads?

YouTube with youtube-dl [1] or NewPipe [2].

[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

[2] https://newpipe.net/

See elsewhere in the thread for details, but youtube-dl was restored by Github and is generally not considered to be in violation of the DMCA. You can see it on Github here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

A copyright holder abused the DMCA process to take it down the first time.

The best way is to download the source from github, run `make`, and copy the the file to $HOME/bin . There hasn't been a release for about a year now and the files on the distro repos are even older (I think).

Also YouTube has been doing some changes lately on the the player and a lot of the tools fail to download audio or video.

For example, in the last couple of weeks there have been some issues with a redirect to a 'consent page' : https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/32499

> yt-dlp uses youtube-dl as a core, so if something breaks still needs to go to the youtube-dl and fix it.

No, they don't. yt-dlp is a fork - if something break, they can just fix it in their own codebase without needing to go through yt-dl. yt-dl is still somewhat active, but almost all their commits are backports of fixes from yt-dlp[0].

[0]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commits/master/

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?

It's laughable how symbolic and ultimately meaningless this is. GitHub had already proven themselves to be a good actor in this particular fight, so not only is the repo online, but we also have http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/

The Uberspace provider is appealing the decision as well. Even with the site down, this looks incredibly positive from where I sit.

If you prefer a GUI (Graphical User Interface), choose one from the youtube-dl subreddit's Wiki. For Windows yt-dlg is a good one. It uses yt-dlp under the hood.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (or use https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui if you want a GUI)

Edit: here’s a link to the GitHub for the updated version - https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui

If this program is the one they're talking about, which I think it is, then no. Installing through python is an option, but you can also download the setup.exe from the releases page which will install just like any other exe. It's even available through the Windows Store if that's your thing.

Second, use https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (or https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui if you want a GUI), then download the latest n6.0 (non-shared) zip for your platform (e.g. win64) from https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds and extract the 3 executables from the bin folder to the same folder as your yt-dlp executable.

Try yt-dlp (also available as a GUI).

Probably, though I'd suggest using https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp, or https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui if you want a GUI.