youtube-dl and yt-dlp -- download YouTube videos

[fredx181]

(edit, changed title, as yt-dlp seems to be the new (frequently updated) fork of youtube-dl. not youtube-dlc anymore, see later in this thread for new developments)
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Official youtube-dl development is taken down due to DMCA takedown notice by RIAA

New repository, see here:
https://github.com/l1ving/youtube-dl
(not sure how long that will stay)

I've compiled youtube-dl with newest fixes, version still says sep. 20 though.
https://github.com/doglinux/busterdog/r ... -dl.tar.gz
Extract youtube-dl.tar.gz in PATH, in e.g. /usr/local/bin/
EDIT: Found out recently that it's very easy to compile, just git clone the repository https://github.com/l1ving/youtube-dl (or download zip and extract), then from terminal in the youtube-dl folder type "make". (need to have "make" installed, obviously).

Fred

[fredx181]

Here's a mirror (outside of github) of l1ving/youtube-dl https://source.netsyms.com/Mirrors/l1ving_youtube-dl
(putting it here for reference, in case the github repo goes down again)
EDIT: another up-to-date mirror: https://gitea.datahoarding.agency/Zenul ... youtube-dl

Fred

[rockedge]

I also cloned a version and have a copy from the repo link you have shared. I compiled in Fossapup64, Bionic64-8.0 and WeeDog64-Void. Runs well on all 3. Although I have been using the version fredx181 compiled on all these same OS's.

[fredx181]

There's also youtube-dlc, a fork of youtube-dl, actively developed.
https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc
Compiled including important recent fixes, youtube-dlc.tar.gz:
https://github.com/doglinux/busterdog/r ... dlc.tar.gz

I've found that the search function of youtube-dl doesn't work properly, e.g. this should give 10 results, but it does only sometimes (after many tries, or maybe first try only, not really sure, anyway, not reliable):

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youtube-dl -f 22 --get-format --get-filename ytsearch10:"iphone battery replacement"

youtube-dlc supports a way of searching that youtube-dl does not, e.g:

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youtube-dlc -f 22 --ignore-errors --get-format --get-filename "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=iphone+battery+replacement" --playlist-end 10

And works well.

To download, I just copy the ID from the filename, e.g. "h7JdnGM8gWM" from one of the results:
......
iPhone 7 Battery Replacement Guide (How To) - ScandiTech-h7JdnGM8gWM.mp4
22 - 1280x720 (720p)
......
And then simply:

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youtube-dlc -f 22 h7JdnGM8gWM

EDIT: Here's a GUI frontend for youtube-dlc: viewtopic.php?p=8903#p8903

Fred

[fredx181]

youtube-dl seems to be developed again (secretly?) now, new version is v2020.11.01.1
https://youtube-dl.org/
Also I noticed that updating by running `youtube-dl -U` works again now.

Not for youtube-dlc:

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youtube-dlc -U
Current Build Hash 4e73a0202c1abea6e09ee72ff49f0678a161fdb80c1519dd4000f78ddfe4bbc1
ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later.
Visit https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/releases/latest

Here's a little script to install/update youtube-dlc, using curl (only if new version is available it will update), run from terminal:

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#!/bin/bash

LOC=$(curl --head --silent --write-out "%{redirect_url}\n" --output /dev/null https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/releases/latest/download/youtube-dlc)
REMVER=$(basename $(dirname $LOC))
YTDLVER=$(youtube-dlc --version)

if [[ "$REMVER" > "$YTDLVER" ]] ; then
echo "Updating youtube-dlc . . ."
echo ""
curl -L https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/releases/latest/download/youtube-dlc -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dlc
chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dlc
echo "youtube-dlc version is now:"
youtube-dlc --version
else
echo "youtube-dlc is up to date"
fi

Fred

[one]

Hi

from The Register:

https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/16/ ... youtubedl/

Microsoft's GitHub on Monday restored access to youtube-dl, software for streaming and downloading YouTube videos, after removing the repository and forked versions last month in response to a controversial DMCA complaint from the RIAA, the US music industry trade group.

"We are taking a stand for developers and have reinstated the youtube-dl repo," said GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, via Twitter. "Section 1201 of the DMCA is broken and needs to be fixed. Developers should have the freedom to tinker. That's how you get great tools like youtube-dl."

Friedman also announced the creation of a $1m open source developer defense fund and plans to revise the company's process for handling legal claims based on Section 1201 of the DMCA aka America's Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

There is another thread about the same topic in the Off-Topic Area where @rufwoof already reported the news:

viewtopic.php?f=52&t=1157

[fredx181]

Now 5 months ago since youtube-dl has been updated, so it seems that the project is dead.
I've read somewhere (but cannot find it now) that it has to do with python (i.e. that python2 support will be dropped, and replaced by python3).
Although youtube-dl still works, downloading is terribly slow see a.o. issue here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30119

I've found that yt-dlp works okay (fast downloading) see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp and is frequently being updated, install (from terminal):

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curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

BUT NOTE.... yt-dlp cannot work with python2, required is to have python3 installed (3.6 or later).

[amethyst]

Thanks fredx181. Don't want to crash your thread but those who are interested in using an online youtube downloader, can try https://www.y2mate.com
I've just checked if it is as good as it used to be and it is. Quick download too. Just use an adblocker to avoid unwanted ads.

[dancytron]

Now 5 months ago since youtube-dl has been updated, so it seems that the project is dead.
I've read somewhere (but cannot find it now) that it has to do with python (i.e. that python2 support will be dropped, and replaced by python3).
Although youtube-dl still works, downloading is terribly slow see a.o. issue here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30119

I've found that yt-dlp works okay (fast downloading) see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp and is frequently being updated, install (from terminal):

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curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

BUT NOTE.... yt-dlp cannot work with python2, required is to have python3 installed.

How do I integrate this into your Youtube-Get or does that have to be done in the .deb file or the "Update youtube-dlc" button?

Any special considerations for my computer still on Stretch Dog.

Thanks for keeping up on this.

[fredx181]

Now 5 months ago since youtube-dl has been updated, so it seems that the project is dead.
I've read somewhere (but cannot find it now) that it has to do with python (i.e. that python2 support will be dropped, and replaced by python3).
Although youtube-dl still works, downloading is terribly slow see a.o. issue here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30119

I've found that yt-dlp works okay (fast downloading) see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp and is frequently being updated, install (from terminal):

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curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

BUT NOTE.... yt-dlp cannot work with python2, required is to have python3 installed.

How do I integrate this into your Youtube-Get or does that have to be done in the .deb file or the "Update youtube-dlc" button?

Any special considerations for my computer still on Stretch Dog.

Thanks for keeping up on this.

I will probably update youtube-get package by using yt-dlp, but may take some time.
In the mean time you can try out installing yt-dlp and rename it to youtube-dl (or in your case maybe youtube-dlc), may work or not or partly, untested.
Btw, the newest youtube-get3 is using youtube-dl, not anymore youtube-dlc.

[dancytron]

Now 5 months ago since youtube-dl has been updated, so it seems that the project is dead.
I've read somewhere (but cannot find it now) that it has to do with python (i.e. that python2 support will be dropped, and replaced by python3).
Although youtube-dl still works, downloading is terribly slow see a.o. issue here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30119

I've found that yt-dlp works okay (fast downloading) see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp and is frequently being updated, install (from terminal):

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curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

BUT NOTE.... yt-dlp cannot work with python2, required is to have python3 installed.

How do I integrate this into your Youtube-Get or does that have to be done in the .deb file or the "Update youtube-dlc" button?

Any special considerations for my computer still on Stretch Dog.

Thanks for keeping up on this.

I will probably update youtube-get package by using yt-dlp, but may take some time.
In the mean time you can try out installing yt-dlp and rename it to youtube-dl (or in your case maybe youtube-dlc), may work or not or partly, untested.
Btw, the newest youtube-get3 is using youtube-dl, not anymore youtube-dlc.

I'll try to take a run at that sometime this week.

I probably need to update manually to get on the latest version of youtube-get in stretch. I'll test in Buster first.

[keniv]

Hello All,
I have used the YouTube-Get GUI I think made by forum member @fredx181 for a while now through various iterations in BusterDog and some Pups. I think the current is v1.5.2 I really like it but agree the dl speed now makes it unusable. Have just checked the version of Python in BusterDog and it's 2.7.16.

BUT NOTE.... yt-dlp cannot work with python2, required is to have python3 installed.

Checking synaptic shows a v2.7.16-1 and so there looks to be no python 3. Is there a version of python3 that could be installed in BusterDog that would not break other things which currently work using python 2.7.16? Ideally I would like to see an updated version of YouTube-Get using the yt-dlp and that yt-dlp was updatable in a similar fashion to yt-dl before support stopped.
@fredx181 had one here about a year ago.

Here's a GUI frontend for youtube-dlc: viewtopic.php?p=8903#p8903

As I remember it worked then but not now.
I don't have the expertise to make these, nor do I know how much work would be involved but if anybody who has the expertise gets around to making one I would be happy to test.

Regards,

Ken.

[fredx181]

I have used the YouTube-Get GUI I think made by forum member @fredx181 for a while now through various iterations in BusterDog and some Pups. I think the current is v1.5.2 I really like it but agree the dl speed now makes it unusable. Have just checked the version of Python in BusterDog and it's 2.7.16.

There is python3 available in Busterdog, just do in terminal apt install python3

No new youtube-get3 package yet, but a workaround to make it use yt-dlp would be:
- Install python3
- Rename /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl to /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl.bak (or delete it) (see also below, create symlink youtube-dl)
- Install yt-dlp , (in /usr/local/bin) see above posts
- Create symlink 'youtube-dl' pointing to yt-dlp : cd /usr/local/bin; ln -s yt-dlp youtube-dl
From what I tested, with yt-dlp it works just the same as youtube-dl this way (except the download speed, which is fine again)
And except that the update button won't work, but yt-dlp -U should work.

EDIT: Above should work using Youtube-Get3 in Puppy too (but python3 version must be higher than 3.5, I think (for yt-dlp))

Fred

[muggins]

For yt-dlp python3 requirements I just download a python3 appimage, chmod +x, then symlink it to /usr/bin/python3.

[keniv]

@fredx181

but a workaround to make it use yt-dlp would be

Hello Fred,
I followed your instructions and all seemed to work but when I ran YouTube-get but the attached image shows what I get. Can you suggest what I've done wrong (I'm wondering if the sym link is working) or should I delete v1.5.2 and install

Here's a GUI frontend for youtube-dlc, package youtube-get3-1.4.0_noarch.pet:

from this link viewtopic.php?p=8903#p8903 and use it with the updated yt-dlp.

Regards,

Ken.

[fredx181]

@keniv are you sure that you have in /usr/local/bin : yt-dlp and youtube-dl (as a symlink to yt-dlp).
If so, I could also be that I made a mistake, will test again later.

edit:

Here's a GUI frontend for youtube-dlc, package youtube-get3-1.4.0_noarch.pet:

from this link viewtopic.php?p=8903#p8903 and use it with the updated yt-dlp

No, it's probably outdated

[keniv]

@fredx181

are you sure that you have in /usr/local/bin : yt-dlp and youtube-dl (as a symlink to yt-dlp)

I think so (please see attached images from /usr/local/bin). However in some Pups I have used when you hover the mouse pointer over the symlink you see "symlink to ..........". When I do this in BusterDog I don't get this information so I don't know if the youtube-dl file, with the symlink arrow, in /usr/local/bin is a symlink to /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp or not. Is there a way to check this?

No, it's probably outdated

Ok thanks for that.

Regards,

Ken.

[fredx181]

... so I don't know if the youtube-dl file, with the symlink arrow, in /usr/local/bin is a symlink to /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp or not. Is there a way to check this?

Probably it's ok, you can check with "ls -l" :

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root@live:~# ls -l /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 nov  4 22:06 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -> yt-dlp

EDIT: Strange..., I tested 1.5.2 again on Busterdog and it works ok with the youtube-dl symlink (no message at start), anyway, please test v1.5.3 below.

I've made a .deb and .pet for testing that should work with yt-dlp (I didn't test much).
deb for busterdog: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/yjc ... l.deb?dl=1

pet, attached youtube-get3-1.5.3_noarch.pet

youtube-get3-1.5.3_noarch.pet

youtube-get3 updated to use yt-dlp

(49.18 KiB) Downloaded 81 times

Python3 required but no youtube-dl symlink is needed.

Fred

[williams2]

In a case like this, an executable script named youtube-dl might work better than a symlink.

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/bin/sh
exec yt-dlp "$@"

Then youtube-dl -U would execute yt-dlp -U

And yt-dlp would show in ps/top/htop so there would be no doubt what is running.

[keniv]

@fredx181

Probably it's ok, you can check with "ls -l"

Here is the output I get when I run ls -l /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl in a terminal.

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root@live:~# ls -l /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
ls: cannot access '/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl': No such file or directory
root@live:~# 

I guess this tells me that although the syslink looks to be there it doesn't work for some reason.

anyway, please test v1.5.3 below.

I removed v1.5.2 from Busterdog then installed v1.5.3 .deb from your link. This has worked. For my test I searched on "indie sage 29.10.2120" as when v1.5.2 was working I downloaded indie sage most weeks. Download was much faster than current v1.5.2.

And except that the update button won't work, but yt-dlp -U should work.

I did not try yt-dlp -U as I assumed the version in the .deb would be the most up to date. Should I attempt an update as a test?

Regards,

Ken.

[keniv]

@fredx181
I have a copy of fossapup 9.5 installed on this machine. I checked the python version. It is v3.8.2. I installed yt-dlp using your instructions. I then installed the v1.5.3 .pet. This also works. As a test I searched for Beatles as I've used this as a test before. I downloaded and played a song. Again the download speed seems back to what it was before the version with yt-dl stopped working properly. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Ken.

[dancytron]

... so I don't know if the youtube-dl file, with the symlink arrow, in /usr/local/bin is a symlink to /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp or not. Is there a way to check this?

Probably it's ok, you can check with "ls -l" :

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root@live:~# ls -l /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 nov  4 22:06 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -> yt-dlp

EDIT: Strange..., I tested 1.5.2 again on Busterdog and it works ok with the youtube-dl symlink (no message at start), anyway, please test v1.5.3 below.

I've made a .deb and .pet for testing that should work with yt-dlp (I didn't test much).
deb for busterdog: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/yjc ... l.deb?dl=1

pet, attached youtube-get3-1.5.3_noarch.pet
youtube-get3-1.5.3_noarch.pet
Python3 required but no youtube-dl symlink is needed.

Fred

I threw caution to the wind, converted this to an sfs file using pet2sfs built into Busterdog, loaded it as an sfs, pushed the update button, and it seems to work fine in all respects. Download speed 850 Kb/second ish.

edit: for some strange reason I missed the .deb file. That works too.

edit again: Install failed badly enough in ChromeDog Stretch that synaptic couldn't fix it and I had to reboot without saving. Oh well...

[fredx181]

@dancytron and @keniv, thanks for testing.

ls: cannot access '/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl': No such file or directory
root@live:~#

I guess this tells me that although the syslink looks to be there it doesn't work for some reason.

I guess something went wrong creating the symlink then, but not important anymore as your tests show that v1.5.3 works ok without symlink required.

I did not try yt-dlp -U as I assumed the version in the .deb would be the most up to date. Should I attempt an update as a test?

Now it will say only that yt-dlp is already the newest, the 'Update-yt-dlp' button should work in v1.5.3, so perhaps a few weeks later you can test.
Btw, in the pet package I didn't include yt-dlp, so you probably got a message at start that says to click the 'Update-yt-dlp' button and it should install, right ?

Install failed badly enough in ChromeDog Stretch that synaptic couldn't fix it and I had to reboot without saving. Oh well..

No idea why that happened in Stretch, but anyway it probably wouldn't work in Stretch because the pyhon3 version is too low (3.5), must be 3.6 or higher.

Fred

[keniv]

@fredx181

Btw, in the pet package I didn't include yt-dlp, so you probably got a message at start that says to click the 'Update-yt-dlp' button and it should install, right ?

I was under the impression that the 'Update-yt-dlp' button would not work so I did not try it but instead I used the code you provide to download and install yt-dlp i.e.

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curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

Good to know the 'Update-yt-dlp' button should work in v1.5.3. As you suggest I'll give it a few weeks then try it.

Regards,

Ken.

[gilles]

Hi,
To download videos, or MP3, from youtube,
1 go to the video you want
2 modify the URL : make youtube becomes yout (delete ube)
3 enter

[backi]

"Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express" Addon also works fast and flawless on Youtube Site.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/a ... -download/

Here is another Downloader:
https://9xbuddy.org/de

[gychang]

will this work on bionicpup32?, I have an older laptop and only real problem due to celeron CPU is gets bottled up with youtube video playing on palemoon.

[amethyst]

"Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express" Addon also works fast and flawless on Youtube Site.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/a ... -download/

Here is another Downloader:
https://9xbuddy.org/de

9xbuddy and y2mate are good. I always use one of the two. 9xbuddy supports a lot of different video sites.

[backi]

9xbuddy also lets you download Age restricted Videos from YouTube without to register.

[amethyst]

9xbuddy also lets you download Age restricted Videos from YouTube without to register.

Dailymotion and ok.ru are two of the big sites that are supported. Excellent. Also - watch videos from numerous video sites directly from the Microsoft Bing search site.