youtube-dl is (possibly) dead

• yt-dlp

  2,360 70,636 9.8 Python

  A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

  

From what I can see, there appears to be a (relatively popular) actively maintained fork, yt-dlp (I have no affiliation with them) which contains fixes for a number of outstanding youtube-dl issues (e.g. random throttling to 70kbps). Perhaps it might be a good time to edit the wiki to include this alternative.

• youtube-dl

  1,082 128,460 8.5 Python

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

  

The same can't be said for the maintainers for the main youtube-dl fork. They can be slow or whatever, but being hostile towards other forks is a step too far. You realize that their conduct towards other forks is one of the primary reasons why yt-dlc (and by extension yt-dlp) exist right?

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• youtube-dl-gui

  199 1,507 6.8 Python

  A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython. (by oleksis)

this version haven't been updated in many years and have some bugs. there is a fork which is maintained: https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui

• SponSkrub

  9 175 0.0 D

  Strip advertisements from downloaded YouTube videos

• streamlink

  131 9,560 9.6 Python

  Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player

  

Also consider streamlink

• youtube-downloader

  3 773 6.7 PHP

  :tv: PHP based alternative to youtube-dl and yt-dlp. Active and frequently updated! :star:

there is also this: https://github.com/Athlon1600/youtube-downloader

Suggest a related project