{"slug": "youtube-dl", "name": "youtube-dl", "category": "terminal", "category_name": "Terminal and shell", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 1.313, "rising": -0.33, "first": "2025-11-09", "latest": "2026-06-11", "why": "it goes straight into youtube-dl and I'll watch it offline or not at all", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "it goes straight into youtube-dl and I'll watch it offline or not at all", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["youtube-dl"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 775970016, "item_id": 48498126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498126", "by": "tremon", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it goes straight into youtube-dl and I'll watch it offline or not at all", "excerpt": "> YouTube is an example of a site that Firefox has trouble handling That's fully on Google. I use plenty of other streaming sites where Firefox handles full-screen video just fine. Coming from the web search company that penalizes the rest of the Internet for slow-loading pages, Youtube is basically an embarrassment and I'm convinced this is completely intentional. It's gotten so bad that I don't even try to watch Yo", "context": "", "use_case": "watching YouTube offline", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["watching youtube offline", "video downloading", "downloading videos"], "compared": [{"slug": "yt-dlp", "name": "yt-dlp", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854703", "title": "Ask HN: Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471970", "title": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1, "compare": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 775970016, "item_id": 48498126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498126", "by": "tremon", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it goes straight into youtube-dl and I'll watch it offline or not at all", "excerpt": "> YouTube is an example of a site that Firefox has trouble handling That's fully on Google. I use plenty of other streaming sites where Firefox handles full-screen video just fine. Coming from the web search company that penalizes the rest of the Internet for slow-loading pages, Youtube is basically an embarrassment and I'm convinced this is completely intentional. It's gotten so bad that I don't even try to watch Yo", "context": "", "use_case": "watching YouTube offline", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"}, {"id": 733888448, "item_id": 45868028, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45868028", "by": "al_borland", "date": "2025-11-09", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Does youtube-dl still work? There seems to be a cat and mouse game with these things.", "excerpt": "Does youtube-dl still work? There seems to be a cat and mouse game with these things. I won't update it for a while and it will break, but it always works again after I update. I figured without active maintenance youtube-dl would be pretty useless by now.", "context": "", "use_case": "video downloading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS?"}, {"id": 733862592, "item_id": 45866412, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866412", "by": "ashed96", "date": "2025-11-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Still on youtube-dl here - didn't know yt-dlp was the actively maintained fork.", "excerpt": "Still on youtube-dl here - didn't know yt-dlp was the actively maintained fork.", "context": "", "use_case": "downloading videos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS?"}]}