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

1. yt-dlp

   1 2,445 168,490 9.7 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

   ```

   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.

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3. youtube-dl

   2 1,089 140,436 8.4 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

4. ytdl-patched

   3 142 618 9.2 Python

   yt-dlp fork with some more features

   

5. yt-dlc

   4 39 3,019 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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