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youtube-dl options

How to use an external downloader aria2c rather than internal http client. See also: ytdl-org/youtube-dl#6923

This seemed to work at the following commit hash. YMMV.

$ git remote show origin
* remote origin
  Fetch URL: git@github.com:ytdl-org/youtube-dl.git
  Push  URL: git@github.com:ytdl-org/youtube-dl.git
  HEAD branch: master
. . .
$ git rev-parse HEAD
f24bc9272e9b74efc4c4af87c862f5f78921d424

The best part

If you clone this from the above listed repo, you can run the following. Otherwise, you'll have to specify the path to youtube-dl on your system.

$ python -m youtube_dl --external-downloader aria2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ -vvvv
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sahal commented Jul 17, 2023

Install aria2c via pacman: https://archlinux.org/packages/?name=aria2

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