ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
596 best points · 765 comments · 13 Hacker News posts · 141,473 GitHub stars · View on GitHub
Hacker News discussions
- YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos (596 points, 445 comments, by makeworld, 2021-06-01)
- YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021 (339 points, 106 comments, by pdimitar, 2021-12-17)
- Move myself to inactive (278 points, 140 comments, by SturgeonsLaw, 2021-12-19)
- YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs (163 points, 58 comments, by tbbttbbt, 2022-01-29)
- YouTube throttling download through yt-dl (29 points, 4 comments, by sohkamyung, 2021-11-02)
- Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites (8 points, 5 comments, by LinuxBender, 2020-03-06)
- Command-line program to download videos from YouTube (5 points, 2 comments, by LinuxBender, 2019-07-03)
- Show HN: YouTube-Dl – Local OS Video Downloader (4 points, 2 comments, by moose44, 2023-12-09)
- YouTube-Dl Is Back (3 points, 0 comments, by fredley, 2020-11-16)
- YouTube-dl dead? Latest commit on Jul 1, 2021 (2 points, 3 comments, by ugjka, 2021-08-08)
- Yt-dl.org broken by a German court (2 points, 0 comments, by mgarciaisaia, 2023-08-14)
- [YouTube] Advent of player JS that needs a full-strength JS runtime (2 points, 0 comments, by akyuu, 2025-10-22)
- YouTube-Dl Is Back (1 points, 0 comments, by patrickyevsukov, 2020-11-16)