youtube-dl VS yt-splitter

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

Hope I'm posting this in the right place. I started using yt-splitter last week and found it really useful, but just yesterday BitDefender flagged it as malware (Gen:Variant.Ulise.191172). Now, when I go to access the windows.exe link it flags it as an infected web page. This doesn't happen when I go to download either the linux or mac versions though.

I just published Version 0.1.1, should fix this bug: https://github.com/redsolver/yt-splitter/releases/tag/v0.1.1 In case it still doesn't work, it would be great if you could create an issue in the GitHub repo with the full output of the command.

Installation instructions and source code: https://github.com/redsolver/yt-splitter