youtube-dl
A command-line program to download videos from YouTube and more sites.
What is youtube-dl?
Augmentable with front-ends such as 
Youtube-DLG , youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from 
YouTube and a hundreds other sites. It requires the Python interpreter and is therefore platform-independent.
It can be integrated in other programs and so be used to watch online videos in local applications such as 
MPV .
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- Developed byRicardo Garcia
- LicensingOpen Source (Unlicense) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.6
- Alternatives236 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 120,759 Stars
- 9,021 Forks
- 4731 Open Issues
- Updated
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- youtube-converter
- Google Chrome Extension
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d2038_2020 thinks yt-dlp is an alternative to youtube-dl- siebee thinks Youtube-DLG is an alternative to youtube-dl
POX added youtube-dl as alternative(s) to Tube Converter
simple but efficient commandline tool. I used it to download complete playlists of videos from Youtube with there original subtitles.
Does what it needs to do, has format options, no bullshit. Also downloads from other video hosts. You know what I mean. Non-technical users may find the CLI weird, welcome to computers! Remember to update frequently.
youtube-dl can be slow with some versions!
I confirm 50 KiB/s speeds with version 2021.12.17 (latest release on GitHub) right now with googlevideo.com. Read these topics for more examples:
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30102
The fact that it's free and open source is reason enough to use it.
I liked youtube-dl. I used it in 2013-2015, it seemed to stop working. Today (2022) I downloaded it, and it seems to work again,yeah! I use it to cache movies that are slow to download so I can watch them later with out waiting for buffering.
Because it is simple
there are lots of features