yt-dlp

yt-dlp is production-grade infrastructure masquerading as a simple CLI tool. It solves a genuinely hard problem—reverse-engineering video delivery APIs across thousands of sites—with minimal marketing fluff and maximum pragmatism. The codebase is enormous because the problem is enormous: each extractor is a small battle against a site's obfuscation. No LLM wrapper nonsense, no 'AI-powered' nonsense. Just maintainers fighting a hydra of site updates. The README is heavy on badges, but that's e...