yt-dlp YouTube Downloader
Comments overwhelmingly recommend yt-dlp (a fork of youtube-dl) as a superior, versatile tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other sites, often questioning why the article's solution isn't using it.
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Why not yt-dlp for downloading?
Why not just use the very widely used yt-dlp?
isn't this what yt-dlp does?
yt-dlp does this also.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28320666
For Youtube, try invidious or yt-dlp
Looks like it's time for you to learn about the magic that is youtube-dl. It will change your life.
One more reason to use youtube-dl / yt-dlp then?
Youtube-dlc works much better currently
Somebody tell the author about youtube-dl.
Tried yt-dlp right now, seems to work fine