3 engineers on Hacker News describe using yt-dlp first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I've been using: https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer with yt-dlp to create complete archives of channels I like”
endorse · personal · anarticle · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run yt-dlp on our remote Linode server and I haven't had to re-generate anything in over a month. Runs smoothly every day.”
endorse · production · rob · 2025-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it downloads it using yt-dlp, uploads it to my file server, and gives me a public URL.”
neutral · personal · DecoPerson · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?