yt-dlp VS aria2

Compare yt-dlp vs aria2 and see what are their differences.

aria2

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. (by aria2)
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yt-dlp aria2
2,360 114
70,159 33,443
4.0% 1.4%
9.8 7.7
about 8 hours ago 14 days ago
Python C++
The Unlicense GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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yt-dlp

Posts with mentions or reviews of yt-dlp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.

aria2

Posts with mentions or reviews of aria2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing yt-dlp and aria2 you can also consider the following projects:

Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass - A simple browser extension to bypass YouTube's age verification, disable content warnings and watch age restricted videos without having to sign in!

axel - Lightweight CLI download accelerator

tiktok-scraper - TikTok Scraper. Download video posts, collect user/trend/hashtag/music feed metadata, sign URL and etc.

libcurl - A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

youtube-dl-gui - A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.

reverse-proxy-confs - These confs are pulled into our SWAG image: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

youtube-dlc - Command-line program to download various media from YouTube.com and other sites

Transmission - Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

jdownloader-portable - 🌎 JDownloader in PortableApps.com format — https://github.com/EIGHTFINITE/jdownloader-portable/tags | https://portableapps.com/node/53823 | https://jdownloader.org/