It seems to me like youtube-dl is also abandoned.

yt-dlp[0] is a fork with additional features and fixes. It is also actively maintained.

[0]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

yt-dlp is a very healthy project with a friendly community, and featurewise is just a better drop-in replacement for youtube-dl. obviously it's building on years of work that went before, but seems to me like the torch has been passed.

Ever since youtube-dl was removed from Github, it seems like they gave up on the project.

youtube-dl works right now, so not sure if this is a fair thing to say. But you might have more insight than me. Maybe they realized that becoming a famous project is only a detriment to their mission

Someone mailed the maintainer, and received a reply that he currently has "[..] no free time to spend on youtube-dl as I'm busy with work, ongoing renovation and other post-relocation stuff." [1]

[1]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29965#issuecom...

Not sure if this is something that affects yt-dlp but youtube-dl takes something like 5 - 10 x as long as watching the video for me now.

It works only as long as you don't care how long it takes to download a video. youtube-dl has had a problem with bandwidth throttling on Youtube for some time now. yt-dlp does not.

A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl (https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui)

429 points|ducktective|2 months ago|151 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478603

Came here to recommend the jely2002 project. You can swap out the YouTube-dl binary with the fork if you want (you need to rename it) and the dev is looking into implementing features from the fork into their project. Really good for people who need to work with less tech-savvy coworkers who need to download video files

Another alternative is plasmatube[1] that is integrated with invidious and shows the youtube comments, make searching possible and show the video descriptions.

[1]: https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/plasmatube

Another alternative: I made a tool which allows one-click downloading videos with youtube-dl (no GUI, no command line). Here: https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/one-click-youtube-dl

I use yt-dlp [1] ... so far so good.

1. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp