How do I tell if a YouTube videos downloader is safe?

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  • yt-dlp

    A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

  • Go to the releases page scroll down until you a link do download a file called yt-dlp_macos and install it somehow.

  • ytdl-patched

    yt-dlp fork with some more features

  • I suggest you use yt-dlp. It's open source and has been inspected and verified by a lot of people.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • yt-dlp-gui

    Discontinued A cross-platform GUI wrapper for yt-dlp written in PyQt5 (by dsymbol)

  • yt-dlp-gui

    Windows GUI for yt-dlp

  • yt-dlp-gui

    simple yt-dlp gui (by vivCoding)

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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