yt-dlc VS youtube-dl

(Installation instructions are included in the documentation provided by both forks)

I) https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc

youtube-dlc is a fork of youtube-dl with the intention of getting features tested by the community merged in the tool faster

We love yt-dlp which is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of the project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project.

ERROR: Channel Restricted; please report this issue on https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dlc -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dlc with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

$ git init # initialize folder as git repo # add remotes to compare $ git remote add youtube-dl https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl $ git remote add yt-dlc https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc $ git remote add yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp $ git remote update # download info from remotes # show number of different commits $ git log youtube-dl/master..yt-dlc/master --oneline | wc -l # in yt-dlc, not in youtube-dl $ git log yt-dlc/master..youtube-dl/master --oneline | wc -l # in youtube-dl, not in yt-dlc $ git log yt-dlc/master..yt-dlp/master --oneline | wc -l $ git log yt-dlp/master..yt-dlc/master --oneline | wc -l $ git log youtube-dl/master..yt-dlp/master --oneline | wc -l $ git log yt-dlp/master..youtube-dl/master --oneline | wc -l # print list of different commits in a file $ git log youtube-dl/master..yt-dlc/master > orig-dlc.txt # in yt-dlc, not in youtube-dl $ git log yt-dlc/master..youtube-dl/master > dlc-orig.txt # in youtube-dl, not in yt-dlc $ git log yt-dlc/master..yt-dlp/master > dlc-dlp.txt $ git log yt-dlp/master..yt-dlc/master > dlp-dlc.txt $ git log youtube-dl/master..yt-dlp/master > orig-dlp.txt $ git log yt-dlp/master..youtube-dl/master > dlp-orig.txt

yt-dlc

Not who you responded to, but I use youtube-dlc. It's a command-line based utility with a ton of options for downloading YouTube videos.

https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/commits/master

The previous update was July 25, and the one before that was December 2020.

While the July update dealt with the updater, having 2 days of small changes since December is not very active.

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