yt-dlp

“I use yt-dlp to download sporadically some YouTube clips and it works fine.”

“yt-dlp works when ever I try it. I do not use it much but ever few weeks when I need to download a streamed youth ringette game, it works great.”

“yt-dlp has gotten spotty about YouTube blocking it, from time to time”

“yt-dlp can do this already, as well as for many other sites, one-liner”

“you can pretty much get this from using RSS feeds for the channels you want to watch and yt-dlp”

“is generally where the most up-to-date workarounds for Google's attempts to block downloads are”

“mpv + yt-dlp does not have this problem because it serves the users interests rather than the platform's.”

“This SponsorBlock extension also integrates with yt-dlp so downloaded videos can have ads stripped”

“I get the auto-transcript with yt-dlp then ask a cheap LLM like DeepSeek to clean it up.”

“Nice to see everyone taking a break from their day jobs at Google of continually breaking yt-dlp so it's impossible to use”

“I've built myself a yt-dlp-based system to pipe audio into my multiroom audio system”

“I prefer to download the video using yt-dlp and then watch at 2.5x in mpv.”

“It is a well simplified wrapper around the hot mess that is needed to convince YouTube that you're actually using using a web browser.”

“yt-dlp usually still works unless the video requires age verification or is geoblocked”

“yt-dlp works fine, especially if you just use your browser cookies”

“What they don't need is hardcoding support for five JS package managers in their python files.”

“They mixed JS building into their python project, aiming to support multiple package managers which are executed from their python script.”

“No "engineering" ever stepped foot near that pile of godawful slop.”

“if I need a good song I use yt-dlp on youtube and get it these days”

“yt-dlp is relatively stable, but still occasionally breaks for long periods”

“yt-dlp is relatively stable, but still occasionally breaks for long periods.”

“using mpv directly to watch youtube actually sucks compared to using yt dlp and then opening the downloaded file in mpv”

“yt-dlp pulling down a handful of videos and playing them locally could help”

“has to have you install an entire JS runtime for it to function now”

“The point is that going for the straightforward libre software solution lets you avoid playing any of those constantly-churning games to begin with.”

“yt-dlp can download the transcript and you can put prospective videos into this machine to identify ones that matter”

“yt-dlp still works well for ripping from Big Tech social media storage targets”

“yt-dlp is easily detected by Google and constantly getting itself blocked”

“The yt-dlp project also raised concerns that the manylinux wheel incorrectly advertises older glibc support.”

“Just download the audio with yt-dlp and transfer it to your iPhone.”

“it's the most convenient way for me to make an mp3 from a video so I can listen to it offline”

“with yt-dlp and the URL, you can download items from the Tubi web site”

“I'm so spoiled by MPV with yt-dlp and mpv_sponsorblock_minimal. It's great.”

“Many thanks to the developers tirelessly compensating for Google's frequent deliberate breakage.”

“yt-dlp is incredibly effective at empowering people to rip content from 1000+ media storage systems”

“yt-dlp used to run just fine until Google's changes to Youtube forced them to add a Deno requirement”

“when you install it using the package name "yt-dlp[default]", it already downloads both deno and the solver automatically”

“It's been working great by itself for the most part since the beginning of the year”

“YouTube spends its effort on measures against yt-dlp, which don't actually stop yt-dlp”

“yt-dlp frequently breaks, and is impressively usually fixed pretty quick”