youtube-dl

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites (by animelover1984)
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  • ERROR: urlopen error [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed
    1 project | /r/youtubedl | 6 Nov 2021
    Notes: I'm not using vpns. I'm using a special version of ytdl designed for niconico. It has not been updated in over a year: https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl
  • Youtube video analysis with youtube_dl inconsistent, sometimes giving errors
    4 projects | /r/webdev | 15 Sep 2021
    You might get more consistent results with a fork, most of which have already fixed this issue. Some popular ones are yt-dlp/yt-dlp, blackjack4494/youtube-dlc and animelover1984/youtube-dl. Please note though these might not be drop-in replacements
  • youtube-dl is (possibly) dead
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2021
    Months before the lawsuit, there were plenty of people complaining that youtube-dl's maintainers closed issues without any reason given. Here is one illuminating example:

    https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860

    And there is also an entire fork that fixes the support for just a single provider, Niconico, because the maintainers ignored its issues.

    https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl

    A quote from its README:

    All code in this project is licensed solely with the condition that any portion of it is not permitted to be used in the main youtube-dl fork, either directly or indirectly. It is also not permitted to be used in any project that contains contributions from either remitamine or dstftw.

    It seems that youtube-dl was a dysfunctionally managed project at the time of the lawsuit, and happened to ride out on the good PR for a couple of months, before returning to stagnation once again.

    To me it sounds like a plugin system would have prevented centralization and the need for forks, but would have made distribution harder for average users.

  • Horahora: youtube-dl Frontend for Niconico, Bilibili, and Youtube
    3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 15 Aug 2021
    It does, I wrote the tool. I started https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl to add features for Horahora.
  • downloading niconico videos problem
    1 project | /r/youtubedl | 2 Aug 2021
    animelover1984's fork have a unique niconico extractor, supports livestreams
  • Niconico videos don't download because of Unable to find video URL error
    2 projects | /r/youtubedl | 21 Jun 2021
    In addition to animelover1984/youtube-dl, non-live videos work with yt-dlp as well
  • Having trouble with youtube-dl fork.
    1 project | /r/DataHoarder | 15 Jun 2021
    Hello. I'm currently trying to download some Niconico videos that will be deleted at the end of this month, using this fork of youtube-dl. However, when I try to run a command, I get this error:
  • Bilibili Playlist Downloading
    2 projects | /r/youtubedl | 11 Jun 2021
    Bilibili doesn't have playlists afaik. Do you mean channels/anthologies? If so, both animelover1984/youtube-dl and yt-dlp can download them
  • niconico / nicovideo.jp no longer working?
    3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 4 Jun 2021
    Other than animelover1984/youtube-dl, yt-dlp also works
  • How can I install animelover1984's youtube-dl branch on Windows?
    2 projects | /r/youtubedl | 16 May 2021
    Also, if you already have git installed, the easiest way is py -m pip install git+https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl
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animelover1984/youtube-dl is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of youtube-dl is Python.

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