Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
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HN comment orderOne of the nice features added to yt-dlp recently: It integrates with sponskrub to call into the SponsorBlock database and with the right options will strip the sponsor segments from downloaded videos. Edit: Correct typo
The name doesn’t do a justice, you can download from thousands of sites from all over the world https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/tree/master/yt_dlp/extracto...
Very useful, I've always had it in my shell along with an alias to rip MP3s from an given url using "yt-dlp.exe -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality \ URL"
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1015
- Total comments
- 446
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-03 | YT-DLP: Fork of YouTube-dlc with SponsorBlock Integration | ducktective | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-08-26 | Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixesFirst breakout · Best thread | makeworld | 822 | 332 |
| 2023-03-10 | Yt-dlp: YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes | thunderbong | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-09-11 | YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixesLatest 20+ point return | bookofjoe | 187 | 113 |
| 2025-04-22 | Yt-dlp: a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloaderHall induction | LinuxBender | 3 | 1 |