youtube-dl VS yt-dlg

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.

People not comfortable with the command line might prefer the yt-dlg version, which has a GUI frontend for it. Also available straight from the Microsoft store since I know some people struggle to figure out GitHub.

Or for people still using yt-dl, there's an interface for that too.

im sure there are websites that are just wrappers for yt-dlp but i think its better to just use it yourself, its not that hard. If you really want a gui theres seal on android and yt-dlg for linux/windows

Well, the original youtube-dlg is abandoned so you must be talking about its fork known as yt-dlg.

media-downloader and tartube both work natively with yt-dlp. Most other GUIs including yt-dlg also technically support it as long as you manually replace their youtube-dl.exe with the yt-dlp executable

Try: yt-dlg by /u/oleksisfraga:

I keep working in the Fork and sync the Organization repository until get the next stable Release

looked at the AUTHORS file and saw Sergey M. in there, didn't know he had commited code to this project back in the day (2015)