#ytdlp — Public Fediverse posts

@jessienab
How do you feel about #ytdlp making this change? Are they limiting potential advancements that could help keep video downloads free? You know the people at YouTube are using AI, and probably using it to try to stop us from downloading content without watching their ads and propaganda.

When people post to the yt-dlp project, they are agreeing to work without any help from AI or LLM, with severe penalty if caught.

@xarvos @lanodan

@sundew

Right. I do not use VPN, but saw the same 403 errors, and the same solution. The nightly build works! Until YouTube breaks #ytdlp again.

On #LinuxMint, this is how I installed the nightly build.

cd /tmp
sudo curl -L -o yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/releases/download/2026.08.18.122307/yt-dlp_linux

sudo mv -f /tmp/yt-dlp /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

@pglpm

RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@padeluun/117016009001852875

Ein netter Hinweis, dass #ytdlp auch die Mediatheken unterstützt:

```
yt-dlp https://www.zdf.de/play/reportagen/am-puls-100/am-puls-mit-dunja-hayali-deutsche-bahn-verspaetung-100
```

#bahn #bahnbubble

@schlaf @uichelorraine
Sinon les instances invidio.us

Le mieux, je trouve, c'est d'utiliser newpipe, pipepipe ou tubular, sur smartphone Android (depuis #fdroid ). C'est moins souvent bloqué par Youtube, et ça permet aussi de télécharger avec ou sans vidéo et dans différentes résolutions. Ensuite on peut facilement le rapatrier sur un ordinateur avec #syncthings ou #kdeconnect.

#invidious #youtube #ytdlp

ICH BIN AUF 360 … DIESER #ytdlp MIST ist nur nützlich, um mir meine Unfähigkeit in die Fresse zu hauen 🤬

Mir ist danach, den PC aus dem Fenster zu schmeißen, obwohl der nichts dafür kann 🤯

(In dieser Laune rate ich davon ab, darauf zu reagieren!)

Es ist ja schön, dass es Tools wie #ytdlp gibt. Doch wenn ich vom Umfang der Hilfe bzw. man-Seiten begraben werde, frage ich mich schon, ob das alles nötig ist?

Und wenn dann auch noch die Beispiele wenig hilfreich sind, vergeht mir jede Lust und der Reflex zur umgehenden Deinstallation fühlt sich angesprochen.

improved on my yt-dlp ripping workflow due to increasing failures stemming from sites blocking VPN ips. now i get notifications of the failure, emacs raises the buffer, and my re-rip binding auto-reconnects to a different server before retrying. it's already paying dividends.

i'd like to say it's an equal quality of life improvement to getting my AC fixed, but nah. 🥵

#VPN #YTDLP #emacs

Da ich versuche, Klicks auf die Konzerntube maximal zu vermeiden, war unter #Linux das Programm yt-dlp super, mit dem man per Kommandozeile die Videos ohne Cookies einfach runter laden konnte. Seit einiger Zeit funktioniert das (zumindest bei mir) nicht mehr. Kennt jemand von euch eine Alternative zu yt-dlp?

#fedihelp #youtube #ytdlp

Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams

https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.yt-dlp/Download%2520a%2520YouTube%2520Video

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880384

#HackerNews #YtDlp #SequenceDiagrams #YouTube #Video #Downloading #TechTools #OpenSource

📥 arabcoders/ytptube

A WebUI for yt-dlp with concurrent downloads support, presets and scheduled tasks and many more.

Downloads online videos, channels, and playlists through a browser interface. Supports automated scheduling, instant notifications, and media playback using yt-dlp.

⭐ Stars: 973
📅 Last Update: Jul 05, 2026

https://github.com/arabcoders/ytptube

#selfhosted #homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #videodownloader #ytdlp

yt-dlp has now added an explicit "No AI / No LLM policy" notice to their repo and Contributing guidelines.

The opening paragraph:

This project strictly forbids the usage of LLMs, agents, or any other AI tools for any kind of contribution.

Full text:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/.NO_AI/README.md

Complete set of files modified:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/249aa5d6e667308fbf95ae5cfb40eba8177a802c

#noAi #nollm #fuckai #ytdlp #youtube #github

Open Video Downloader is a free and open-source desktop app for downloading videos, audio, subtitles, playlists, and metadata from hundreds of websites.

Built on top of yt-dlp, it offers a simple graphical interface , no command line required. Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux under the AGPL-3.0 license.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=open-video-downloader

#OpenSource #Privacy #Linux #Windows #macOS #ytdlp #VideoTools

I ❤️ YT-DLP

My 7 year old kid says to me: 'Papa I want all the songs from Zootropolis on my USB stick for my little radio'

Dad searches Youtube for Zootropolis soundtrack

Goes to
https://vinayakg.dev/tools/youtube-yt-dlp-command-builder.html

Clicks 'Audio Extraction' and then 'Extract audio only', selects MP+ and Best Quality

copy code, goes to OSX Terminal and Pastes.

45 seconds later all 22 songs are ready.

Copy all and paste into the USB.

Hands USB to kid with Radio...

Child Happiness. :blobfoxgoogly: :ablobcatrave:

#YTDLP #Youtube #USB #Piracy🏴‍☠️ (but is it?? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ )
#MP3 #Music #HeroDad

@fediverseconnection @leanderlindahl
well, then you can make the video available on #mastodon.

download it from #youtube (or #x, #instagram, #facebook, or whatever) and share it here, for example with #ytdlp or #tubular.

Difficile de regarder en live les nouveaux 101% de #NolifeTV sur #Twitch, en plus ils ne sont pas dispo en #Replay. Donc voici un #POC sur la récupération du #Stream #Live avec #YTDLP.
Petits extraits.

#NoLife19ans #Geek #Japon #ProofOfConcept #Retrogaming #JeuxVidéo #NoLife

What's the preferred CLI #YouTube video downloader on #FreeBSD these days?

There has to be something better than #ytdlp. The list of dependencies it wants to bring along now is an absolute joke, including two different versions of #llvm! Sorry, but no...

Downloading a list of videos from odysee....

works with yt-dlp.

#odysee #Linux #ytdlp #YouTube

@gaufff
Downloading YouTube videos here at home using yt-dlp works today.... without cookies. I do not even have a working login.

I have noticed a limit, though. Maybe I can download about 16 videos before YouTube insists I login to continue downloading. After a cool-down period, I can resume downloading without any change to the command.

#YouTube #ytdlp #Linux

"yt-dlp support of Bun is now deprecated, citing the rewrite to Rust being "vibe coded" and issues surrounding supply chain attacks"

https://xcancel.com/DanielLockyer/status/2058042253050843358

#ytdlp #bun #rust #vibecoding

Как мы вывели в админку ошибки yt-dlp, которые жили только в логах. Bridge на 200 строк и борьба с alert-fatigue

История о том, как сделать видимыми ошибки yt-dlp, которые молча умирали в логах воркера. Bridge на 200 строк, классификатор content vs infra, борьба с alert-fatigue. Читать

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1036904/

#ytdlp #fastapi #observability #alertfatigue #мониторинг #python #devops

I am SO fed up with #youtube , their #ads, their so-called "bot protection", their #trackers , the almost obligation to create an account to slightly minimize #captcha ...

I used to download their vids with #ytdlp to watch them a bit more comfortably, but now I must play with their #cookies !

It would be OK that they safeguard THEIR content, but it is not!

#rant #enshittification #google

#Zenity is a bit of a winner for knocking together simple UIs. For ages I've been using a wrapper script around #ytdlp which determines the screen resolution of the computer it's running on, updates yt-dlp, then fetches the video supplied as an argument and streams it to #mpv.

However that's not very friendly for folks who share the media device on which the script is available, so I wrapped it in Zenity to present a friendly UI for either playing a previously-watched video, playing a new video (by URL), presenting a list of previously-watched videos, and providing a means to delete one or all previously-watched videos.