Good afternoon, today’s #OpenSourceDaily project is https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl youtube-dl is a command line utility written in Python under The Unlicense that can download videos from YouTube and other sites. It works surprisingly well and does not require a YouTube API key to use. You can also use the -x option to rip the audio after a video downloads. This one is interesting because it is one of the only projects I’m aware of to be censored from GitHub. Microsoft failed to keep it censored when thousands of users uploaded forks of the code. The fact that it has 118k stars suggests that they have stopped trying to censor it.

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I’d recommend using this fork. Works much more reliably and is kept current. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

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Thanks, I’ll check that one out

This rocks!

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