I don't use the Play Store but a friend recently asked me for a youtube-dl frontend for Android (using other words), care to name some?

Not the GP, but NewPipe is the one I'm familiar with. It's available on F-Droid.

I use NewPipe, but my friend does not sideload apps or use F-Droid, that's why I'm asking for Play Store options.

It's unlikely that you will find a long standing play store app with youtube-dl built in.

Well, should we be listing the related Apps here?

> the first rule of youtube-dl is not to talk about youtube-dl

There are ~40 hits for "youtube-dl" in Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=youtube-dl&c=apps

But I agree that people might have mixed feelings on pointing to the ones that work better.

I made another search, through DuckDuckGo, and got a hit that's not among those ~40 and looks good: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aviddapp.o...

Am I hurting them by linking, or any of you for adding feedback?

Ark tube is a good front-end for youtube-dl https://forum.xda-developers.com/general/paid-software/app-a...

Problem is, just because something is "in the Play Store" doesn't mean it is harmless. It could, for example, contain trackers. So, yes, we should discuss and link them.

The Play Store doesn't allow YouTube downloaders, so I doubt you'll find any good ones there. The moment one gets popular, it's taken down.

It's a bit hacky and out of reach to most casual users, but you can get YouTube-DL to work with Termux.

I have it set so that whenever I use the Termux share intent from another app, it use the shared URL and calls YouTube-DL with some parameters I want.

~/bin/termux-url-opener

    #!/bin/bash
    url=$1
    youtube-dl $url

~/.config/youtube-dl/config

    # Default Output Directory and Pattern
    -o /data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/downloads/%(extractor_key)s/%(uploader)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s