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yt-dlp

GitHub Repo Pretty sure · The anti-LangChain
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

The spiritual successor to youtube-dl that actually maintains extractors instead of abandoning them. Does one thing relentlessly well: grab video from anywhere before the site patches it.

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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...

164942 stars Python 2026-05-22 2035 days old

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