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yt-dlp support #44

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smaragdus opened this issue Oct 11, 2021 · 4 comments
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yt-dlp support #44

smaragdus opened this issue Oct 11, 2021 · 4 comments
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Since youtube-dl may be abandoned (latest version - 2021.06.06), support for yt-dlp may be considered in the future since this fork seems to be actively developed (latest version - 2021.10.10).

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<troll>Some say the two maintainers both died from COVID.</troll>

It looks like Sergey M is busy (house moving):
ytdl-org/youtube-dl#30022 (comment)

Maybe the issue will be magically solved in a few weeks.

Let's keep an eye on it!

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I really hope that youtube-dl is not dead, that the developer will come back to it and a new release will be published. If this does not happen yt-dlp is the obvious fork to replace youtube-dl.

Perhaps another solution might be that DownZemAll! supports both youtube-dl and yt-dlp and the user is able to choose which engine to use for downloading of videos.

If it happens that youtube-dl stops working with the most video sites I thought of a manual workaround:

  • delete youtube-dl.exe;
  • rename yt-dlp.exe to youtube-dl.exe;
  • replace the deleted executable with the renamed executable;

I suppose that this might work but I haven't tried it yet.

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Tried to rename yt-dl.exe in youtube-dl.exe... It works!

The fix should be quick to implement.

@setvisible setvisible self-assigned this Oct 30, 2021
@setvisible setvisible added the improvement New feature or request label Oct 30, 2021
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Fixed in v2.5.0

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