Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl?

• yt-dlp

  2,360 70,636 9.8 Python

  A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

  

docker run -it --name ubuntu-mantic -v path/to/your/videodir/:/VideosDir ubuntu:mantic /bin/bash

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Install stuff needed on the container, typically curl python3 etc and the install from GitHub: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

and you're good to go. I've honestly found this easier than fighting with my host system and constantly reinstalling broken versions etc.

• youtube-dl

  1,082 128,460 8.5 Python

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

  

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

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• ytdl-patched

  123 473 9.3 Python

  yt-dlp fork with some more features

  

• yt-dlc

  39 2,846 0.0 Python

  media downloader and library for various sites.

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

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

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