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Active youtube-dl forks?

Open ahm750 opened this issue 3 years ago • 10 comments

Since youtube-dl is currently not being maintained, what are the most active forks? yt-dlp seems to be a good alternative, anything else?

ahm750 avatar Aug 22 '21 00:08 ahm750

Best to have only 1 active replacement.

rautamiekka avatar Aug 22 '21 09:08 rautamiekka

I switched to yt-dlp as well. It is more than enough

triplesixman avatar Aug 22 '21 10:08 triplesixman

Best to have only 1 active replacement.

Not all the time.

But youtube-dlp is great, I think that's what everyone is using for now.

ghost avatar Aug 22 '21 16:08 ghost

I'd stick with yt-dlp.

moom0o avatar Aug 23 '21 04:08 moom0o

Are there any that support Python 2.7?

noembryo avatar Aug 23 '21 11:08 noembryo

Why can't you use python 3?

moom0o avatar Aug 23 '21 16:08 moom0o

A lot of reasons, but mainly because some of my most complicated and big applications, use libraries that are not compatible with it. I can't even update Pyside, since there are things missing from Pyside2/6 (like Phonon etc.)

But even if I could do it, I would still remove compatibility for x86 systems (Pyside6).. Its a big mess :cry:

noembryo avatar Aug 23 '21 16:08 noembryo

just out of interest, does anyone know whats up with the youtube dl developers? I am developing a youtube client and it's exhausting that i literarely have to push updates every week becasuse something breaks and the youtube-dl doesn't get recompiled.

simteraplications avatar Aug 24 '21 18:08 simteraplications

just out of interest, does anyone know whats up with the youtube dl developers?

Nobody knows for sure. For a bit of context:

fastily avatar Aug 24 '21 22:08 fastily

just out of interest, does anyone know whats up with the youtube dl developers? I am developing a youtube client and it's exhausting that i literarely have to push updates every week becasuse something breaks and the youtube-dl doesn't get recompiled.

yt-dlp is the best option, all the other forks died off due to it, which is a good thing.

upintheairsheep avatar Dec 01 '22 16:12 upintheairsheep

#30568.

dirkf avatar Apr 15 '23 02:04 dirkf