@kixik to Arch Linux • 1 year agoStop using youtube-dl and use yt-dlp instead. - r/archlinuxlibreddit.spike.codesmessage-square5arrow-up126arrow-down11cross-posted to: artixlinux
arrow-up125arrow-down1external-linkStop using youtube-dl and use yt-dlp instead. - r/archlinuxlibreddit.spike.codes@kixik to Arch Linux • 1 year agomessage-square5cross-posted to: artixlinux
minus-squarevoxellinkfedilink1•11 months agoisn’t youtube-dl broken anyway? last time I tried it it was so slow it would take a couple of hours to download a single 5-10 minute video
minus-square@knowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilink1•11 months agoI think the main dev was busy for a while when yt changed the api and yt-dlp was forked. Youtube-dl seems to work now though, and I think works on some sites yt-dlp doesn’t.
minus-square𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬link1•11 months agoyoutube-dl is pretty much dead. Last I heard from them was that they want to keep Python 2 compatibility.
isn’t
youtube-dl
broken anyway?last time I tried it it was so slow it would take a couple of hours to download a single 5-10 minute video
I think the main dev was busy for a while when yt changed the api and yt-dlp was forked. Youtube-dl seems to work now though, and I think works on some sites yt-dlp doesn’t.
youtube-dl is pretty much dead. Last I heard from them was that they want to keep Python 2 compatibility.