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Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

231 mentions on Hacker News by 198 people: 21 stories, 210 comments · first 2012-03-11 · latest 2026-09-26

Mentions per year 231 mentions · busiest year 2020 (62)
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  1. …it's something for the future. Hopefully someone can clarify what they mean by this statement. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29663#issuecom... [2] https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike
    comment by gh0std3v · 2021-11-28 · in Return YouTube Dislike - Extension
  2. I'm very, very sorry to say that IMO he has a point about toxic community. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues an example: Rich with people who demand a lot, pay nothing and do nothing. FWIW, I once stood next to someone at a…
    comment by Arnt · 2021-11-04 · in I Dislike Open Source
  3. Better link: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326 and the problem is fixed in the fork https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
  4. This comment [1] also says youtube-dl is no longer maintained. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30075#issuecom...
    comment by sohkamyung · 2021-11-02 · in YouTube throttling download through yt-dl
  5. …on youtube-dl as I'm busy with work, ongoing renovation and other post-relocation stuff." [1] [1]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29965#issuecom...
  6. There are workarounds (detailed very nicely in dirkf’s pull request for youtube-dl ): https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184 Pasting the content here for convenience: Since summer 2021, YouTube has started serving media URLs…
  7. …a video URL that ffmpeg understands, which unfortunately is not always the case.) Related: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...
  8. I have proposed this some years ago ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/14646 ), but it didn't get much attention from the maintainers. It has been previously rejected in 2013 already ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/iss…
  9. youtube has recently been implementing download speed throttling on some video downloads. See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326 . Youtube-dl does not yet have a solution for this occasional download speed throttling.…
  10. Quite the opposite; number of contributions increased: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/contributors Just seems a case of the same what usually happens: main author loses interest, has other stuff to do, etc. and no one really…
  11. And they've closed many issues as duplicates with no further explanation given: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860
  12. …like Newgrounds are breaking. There's 3.7k open issues right now and nothing gets merged [0]. [0] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues
  13. Does not look inactive to me: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/contributors
  14. I mean, just look at < https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29809 >. They don’t even bother removing spam.
    comment by pwdisswordfish8 · 2021-08-25 · in Youtube-dl is possibly dead
  15. …reported ongoing breakage without giving a reason. Here is one especially 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,…
    comment by nonbirithm · 2021-08-24 · in Youtube-dl is possibly dead
  16. …so much more than just YouTube now - they have scrapers for dozens (maybe hundreds) of video sites: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...
    comment by simonw · 2021-08-24 · in Youtube-dl is possibly dead
  17. …where many people take a month off. You therefore need to look at the commit rate last year. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/commit-activit... only goes back a year, but does show that last August had only 0 or 1 commits per…
  18. …much more. Looking at the file names here should give you a pretty good idea of what is supported. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...
  19. …the VPN. If you have already verified your account you can just pass the cookies and download. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom... [2] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom...
  20. …have “—-username” and “—-password” flags, or will prompt for a password if you just specify “-u”. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#authentication-option... But as of a couple days ago it wasn’t working for age-restricted videos.
  21. The title should be updated to indicate that this change only affects EU-based IP addresses: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom... https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom...
  22. …so I always have a copy." I keep this in my local crontab: ssh john@rsync.net "git clone mirror https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl.git"
  23. …https://www.youtube.com/c/PBSKIDS/playlists You could use youtube-dl to curate content: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
    comment by throwaway39912 · 2021-04-15 · in Our plans for PeerTube v4
  24. I'm just waiting for youtube-dl to support gumroad https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26874
  25. …or uberspace is doing some maintenance? People report the same on Github (if that's not you ;)): https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28196 - maybe follow that for updates?
    comment by detaro · 2021-02-18 · in Ask HN: Yt-dl has insecure cert?
  26. …ion.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decen... [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/976 [3] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/2238
  27. I wouldn't trust them - maybe use youtube-dl instead to download a local copy: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
  28. …and run the result through Google Translate[1]:" youtube-dl --sub-langs [DESIRED LANGUAGE] [1]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...
  29. …to save subs, though I think you’d have to post-progress them to get them without time stamps. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...
  30. Which would break some common authentication options in ytdl: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#authentication-option...
  31. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#authentication-option... Username, Password, 2FA, etc.
  32. It is not the case, and all that has happened is a removal: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...
  33. It does, but it's broken. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860 The developers are not responding to the issue, and from what I understand it is borderline impossible to fix, because there is an entire security team behind…
    comment by nonbirithm · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
  34. It supports a lot of video sources [1], not just Youtube. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/3f1748b9445e9d93...
    comment by calcifer · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
  35. …HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:52:27 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Location: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/download/2020.11.12/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz Content-Length: 3 Connection: close…
    comment by JosephRedfern · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
  36. …one, or is there more to come? [1]: https://twitter.com/t3rr4dice/status/1320660235363749888 [2]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/2de2ca6659a18b...
    comment by MrGilbert · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
  37. …like a reasonable thing to not do, and just replace those tests with just random cat videos. [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...
    comment by dutchmartin · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
  38. Here is the commit: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7... It seems that only removing the test was enough.
    comment by Sebb767 · 2020-11-16 · in YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
  39. …the tests for RIAA member videos as the only change, which I assume helped get this restored: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...
  40. …email address of the current youtube-dl maintainer and Google search results[3] don't quickly reveal it. - "github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl" acted as a Schelling Point - "yt-dl.org" also acted as Schelling Point How would new people easily…
  41. youtube-dl was already on a path to become unmaintained, or at least too slowly updated to keep up with the fast moving services it targets. https://web.archive.org/web/20201014194602/https://github.co...
    comment by rnhmjoj · 2020-10-27 · in A Youtube video downloader written in Go
  42. The description blurb at the top implies it's not by the original maintainers. >This is a backup of https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl since it was taken down by the RIAA. >I'll wait to see what happens with the GitHub repository and…
    comment by Arnavion · 2020-10-27 · in A Youtube video downloader written in Go
  43. …the community merged in the tool faster, since youtube-dl's development seems to be slowing down. ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462 )"
    comment by ugjka · 2020-10-26 · in How journalists use youtube-dl
  44. There is no "arms race", because the maintainers made no commits to the tiktok extractor for the past 8 months AFAIK. And twitch, a fairly important site, was similarly broken for three months due to maintainers' inactivity:…
    comment by llacb47 · 2020-10-25 · in Youtube-dl GitHub Template
  45. …[list] (yes, this is basically trickery to hit the (ii)) (iii) identification of infringement > https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl [...] And there you go, all 6 required elements + claim of infringement + demand for takedown are there.
  46. Original youtube-dl repo which has been taken down and replaced with DMCA notice: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
    comment by miguelmota · 2020-10-25 · in YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git
  47. > If anyone has an up to date repo of the github pages repo > that'd be great too. The webpage seems to be still up [1], it should be possible to grab those resources. The releases can be rebuilt from the tags - the only other thing is the…
  48. I couldn't find a copy for a binary on gitea, so I tried Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://github.com/ytdl-org/yo... E.g. the first snapshot redirects you to https://web.archive.org/web/20200923163719/https://github-pr.…
  49. https://web.archive.org/web/20200930093107/https://github.co...
  50. …the technology employed by YouTube is an effective technical measure within the meaning of EU 1 See https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#readme. and German law, which is materially identical to Title 17 U.S.C. §1201…