ytdl-org/youtube-dl on Hacker News

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp seems to be a more currently maintained fork of the original https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/

comment by jacobolus · 2026-09-26 · in Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?

…projects, but the fix has not yet been released. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/33186 See also previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358980

comment by akyuu · 2025-10-22 · in Ask HN: Yt-dlp no longer downloads videos from YouTube

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[YouTube] Advent of player JS that needs a full-strength JS runtime

story by akyuu · 2025-10-22 · 0 comments

From https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/33186 > Currently, a new style of player JS is beginning to be sent where the challenge code is no longer modular but is hooked into other code throughout the player JS. So it's no longer…

comment by progbits · 2025-09-24 · in Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

…for the requested languages" yt-dlp --skip-download --write-sub https://youtu.be/ZMklf0vUl18 Docs: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl?tab=readme-ov-file#su...

comment by Leftium · 2024-09-08 · in Show HN: Transcribe YouTube Videos

This youtube-dl? https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl Did it get taken down again? The takedown I remember was a few years ago, and GitHub announced some policy changes to make it harder for that to happen when they very loudly…

comment by hoistbypetard · 2024-07-31 · in macOS in QEMU in Docker

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/32842#issuecom... ^ Claims to have a fix due in a nightly build.

comment by instagib · 2024-07-10 · in YouTube is returning 403 to NewPipe and other 3rd party players

Also: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

comment by smarm52 · 2024-06-11 · in Firefox and uBlock origin results in infinite YouTube ads

youtubedl still works great. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

comment by smarm52 · 2024-05-28 · in YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers

…yt-dlp - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl )

comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2024-04-16 · in Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

Yep. yt-dlp and youtube-dl https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl Will also start to feel the impact. My theory is that we will see a bunch of new video hosting sites as youtube itself attempts to lock down…

comment by sitkack · 2024-03-31 · in How Google fights Invidious (a privacy YouTube Front end)

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl works just fine for me and so does http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ . What's your DNS?

comment by phoe-krk · 2024-01-30 · in YouTube-dl has been taken down

youtube-dl is still a thing, last commit was one week ago. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commits/master

comment by gkbrk · 2023-12-12 · in Forget spaceships; I just want my music

Youtube-dl still functions quite well. You can even grab the CLI here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl And occasionally you can find one of their TLDs just by doing a search on DDG or Brave.

comment by all2 · 2023-12-12 · in Forget spaceships; I just want my music

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Show HN: YouTube-Dl – Local OS Video Downloader

story by moose44 · 2023-12-09 · 2 comments

…there a service that actually gives MP3 downloads? YouTube with youtube-dl [1] or NewPipe [2]. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl [2] https://newpipe.net/

comment by kogepathic · 2023-11-24 · in Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists

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

comment by boomboomsubban · 2023-10-16 · in FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client

…so you can't crack a game by taking one valid token and sharing it with everyone else. [1] eg. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326#issuecom...

comment by gruez · 2023-10-09 · in YouTube: Adblockers violate YouTube's terms of service

…and is generally not considered to be in violation of the DMCA. You can see it on Github here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl A copyright holder abused the DMCA process to take it down the first time.

comment by rezonant · 2023-09-11 · in YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

…in the last couple of weeks there have been some issues with a redirect to a 'consent page' : https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/32499

comment by AugustoCAS · 2023-08-26 · in Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl?

…is still somewhat active, but almost all their commits are backports of fixes from yt-dlp[0]. [0]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commits/master/

comment by roblabla · 2023-08-26 · in Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl?

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Yt-dl.org broken by a German court

story by mgarciaisaia · 2023-08-14 · 0 comments

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl and https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (which this project uses, see https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist/blob/f848e732... ) are great at ripping videos, and not just from YouTube, they…

comment by simonw · 2023-07-16 · in Self hosted YouTube media server

…the yt-dlp JS interpreter (though I don't know in which situations it actually needs to use it): https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_d... [0] Some of YouTube's obfuscated JS: https://www.youtube.com/s/player/bbe1b497/…

comment by varenc · 2023-05-29 · in Music Company Asks Google to Delist 'YouTube Downloader' Wikipedia Article

…... That link above as it is presently ... issues/31530 ... lists the following as the fix, below - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/31530#issuecom... Now my problem is I'm not running Win 13 or the latest linux distro but…

comment by anenefan · 2023-04-13 · in YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship

…been packaged or released for youtube-dl but you can fix it yourself or use a different pacakge. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/31530

comment by ProAm · 2023-04-13 · in YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship

…now then I think it's reasonable for people's faith in the project's future to be shaken. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#installation [2] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/31530

comment by probably_wrong · 2023-04-13 · in YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship

…is (again) active development for some while now, after some reorganization and new focus[1]. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30568

comment by PurpleRamen · 2023-04-13 · in YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship

…on the website, they simply return a 302 redirect to the latest artifact on Github, i.e., https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/download/202... .

comment by dindresto · 2023-04-13 · in YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship

…decoded &n= urls return fine, but start throttling after just over ~1MB. My comment from Oct 2021: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326#issuecom... "server heavily throttles any request to same URL after initial 2-4MB…

comment by rasz · 2023-02-06 · in Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited

yeah, it will: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184

comment by 2h · 2023-02-05 · in Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited

…very specialized "regex" based JS evaluator that presumably did just enough to make the YT one run: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/2021.12.17/youtu... and its callsite: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/2021.12.17/you…

comment by mdaniel · 2022-12-24 · in Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation

…a javascript expression solver. You can see the full extent of its capabilities in the testsuite: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/test/test... The specific site modules in youtube-dl will take care to extract the bare…

comment by mid-kid · 2022-09-11 · in YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lines of Python

They just don't want to use any external dependencies... There is also an AES implementation: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_d...

comment by aeyes · 2022-09-11 · in YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lines of Python

the tests for it: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/test/test...

comment by homarp · 2022-09-10 · in YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lines of Python

It's used in the YouTube extractor: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/d619dd712f63aab1... I believe YouTube limits your bitrate if you don't pass a specific calculated value; it's possible youtube-dl has to parse and eval JS to…

comment by hadrien01 · 2022-09-10 · in YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lines of Python

…at normal speeds. Edit: it's also required to download music, otherwise it will just fail Source: - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326#issuecom... - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/d619dd712f63aab1... -…

comment by rany_ · 2022-09-10 · in YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lines of Python

…to time. I certainly do. This happens often enough, there's an entry in youtube-dl FAQ about it: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#video-url-contains-an... (They advice to add single quotes around the URL, which as you now know, is…

comment by jwilk · 2022-09-09 · in URL is also a shell script that executes some malicious(?) code

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Show HN: A Qt based GUI for many CLI based online media downloaders

story by mhogomchungu · 2022-08-01 · 0 comments

If you’re comfortable in the terminal the following works great for archiving: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

comment by remlov · 2022-07-14 · in 52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted

…for throttling implemented by google. youtube-dl is pretty much unmaintained compared to yt-dlp: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/commit-activit... https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/graphs/commit-activity

comment by bspammer · 2022-04-17 · in “YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG

…for a few days. This is also the time the project's maintainer officially became inactive[1]. 1: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/21b759057502c6...

comment by gurchik · 2022-03-07 · in The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues

…non-official clients to stream video, as is evident from the required workaround described here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326#issuecom... The legal defense of youtube-dl is premised on the idea that there's no…

comment by md224 · 2022-03-07 · in The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues

…with a pull request template that includes a checkbox they ask contributors to check (see randomly https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30690 ) and this is probably a good model to follow if you expect a lot of contributions.…

comment by Jach · 2022-03-04 · in Ask HN: Are GitHub pull-requests governed by the original repository license?

…inaccurate; yt-dlp grew out of youtube-dlc, which was started by the author of this ticket: < https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462 >, filed in August 2020, some time before the DMCA in November 2020.

comment by pwdisswordfish9 · 2022-02-26 · in Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

…a feature to download parts of a video. Currently that's not possible Request is open since 2013 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/622

comment by haunter · 2022-01-29 · in YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs

I think the original project isn't actively maintained any more: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/commit-activit... 910 PRs, but only 3 commits to master since July 2021.

comment by itake · 2022-01-29 · in YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs

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YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs

story by tbbttbbt · 2022-01-29 · 58 comments

The work needed to bypass the rate limiting is pretty impressive: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184#issuecomme... An excerpt: > ...the challenge algorithm is served in a mini-language within the minified player JS and…

comment by varenc · 2021-12-19 · in Move myself to inactive

…to address the issue but it wasn't merged for several days. That's when I saw Issues like this: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29809

comment by gurchik · 2021-12-19 · in Move myself to inactive