Re: David Gewirtz On How To Download YouTube Videos For Free

On Fri, 16 May 2025 06:48:22 -0400, Paul wrote:

For the person writing that article, yt-dlp must be kept updated, to
continue working. Which might be too much for them to handle.

I just do a git-fetch and a rebase. I get reminded to do this every time
some download fails with an error: update my download app, and it usually
succeeds afterwards.

By the way, that “ClipGrab” tool that he seems to like, requires some kind
of download helper in the background. Looking at the source code, it
appears to be youtube-dl. I wonder how it keeps that up to date ...