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yt-dlp is a good fork. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Any other recommendations?

• mmebane 5y ago
  JDownloader [1] is a pretty good all-purpose download tool. It's a GUI tool, though, so it fills somewhat of a different niche than youtube-dl. [1]: https://jdownloader.org/ https://jdownloader.org/
  • mschuster91 5y ago
    jd is nowhere as flexible as youtube-dl is, especially format selection.
    • Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
      As a JD2 power user, could you expand on the inflexibility and the format selection? I am trying to understand your issue with format selection since JD2 can do wide range of formats. It uses FFmpeg as codec backend. If it is about the format selection in the LinkGrabber list, you can set your preferred format in YT plugin setting and JD2 will follows that. The default setting is "Best" which is why it shows you the list based on the best possible format.
    • tablespoon 5y ago
      Also, youtube-dl can save the video metadata as JSON.