yt-dlp
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Command line program that's a youtube-dl fork that downloads videos from YouTube and over 1000 sites. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Termux
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Audio & Music, Video & Movies, OS & Utilities, File SharingGitHub repository
- 111,980 Stars
- 8,805 Forks
- 1920 Open Issues
- Updated May 16, 2025
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Extend support for Youtube-DL. It's great and it does exactly what I expect from it.
It has a bit of a learning curve (and can be scary for we people that arent use to command lines), but it more than makes up for it on terms of sheer speed, lightweight-ness and options. Besides from having an impossible number of commands (which is good and bad), it does allow for non-youtube video download. I personally recommend to use it with AutoHotKey, after some setup its easy peasy to use.
As of March 2025, it works pretty well. I'm not sure if there is a GUI, but the command line works if you put the right ffmpeg.exe (~125 MB) in the folder. There are an almost infinite number of parameters you can control if you want to.
YT-DLG it's a Front-end that used to use the CLI Back-end "Youtube-DL" but now uses YT-DLP, although you're able to select which one to use, check it out if you're not into CLI, worth noting using a GUI may limit some functionality...
If you may want to simplify the usage without the CLI, maybe creating a .Bat file or files might do the trick as well.
Necessary and very powerful, but some simple tasks such as "Download this video in the highest possible quality with both audio and video" are more complex than on freemium alternatives
More features in yt-dlp than in youtube-dl !
As far as I can see this tool is so powerful that it can download any media from anywhere. And maybe that's his drawback too. I hit the "--help" thing and was terrified with how many options this tool has.
Cross-platform, free and open source with a efficient, well-documented CLI interface that gets the job done.