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I'm currently using it to download a youtube video. If it still works for it's main function, maybe it's just not a high priority project until something breaks
by bittercynic 5y ago
I'm currently using it to download a youtube video. If it still works for it's main function, maybe it's just not a high priority project until something breaks?
- banana_giraffe 5y agoPrimary function, perhaps, but it's used for lots of websites that aren't YouTube, and some of those websites have broken. There are open pull requests and/or bugs for many websites that aren't being approved. This is rather unusual for youtube-dl, it normally had a release ever two weeks or so.
- klodolph 5y agoIt may say “YouTube” in the name, but it’s a tool designed to work with many sites.
- d0lphin 5y agoIt's actually already broken. If you try to download more than 3-16 videos (the limit is not clear), you start to be rate limited to 300 kbps or so. According to Reddit this is fixed in a fork called yt-dlp
- geerlingguy 5y agoOne other workaround is to use '-F' to get a list of formats, and choose one of the non-default formats to download. This seems to work for me.
- ketralnis 5y agoTo be honest that sounds fine. You're presumably downloading it to watch it offline, the download speed isn't really material as long as it finishes eventually
- majewsky 5y agoyoutube-dl is also used by video players like mpv for live streaming. In this case, 70 kbps is completely unusable for the vast majority of videos.