dniku
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1 year ago From reading the readme of yt-dlp I don't see any claims of being faster than youtube-dl — they only appear to be saying that they add some features and fixes. Do you have any measurements?
Besides, youtube-dl is much older, more reputable, and is more likely to be already installed on a user's machine. According to Repology, youtube-dl has 272 packages in distro repos, compared to 160 for yt-dlp (although I was surprised to see that youtube-dl was recently dropped from Manjaro Stable, whereas yt-dlp is still in extra, and the Arch Wiki has just a redirect from youtube-dl to yt-dlp).
The above considerations make me inclined to close this PR without merging. If there are no objections from other maintainers, I'll do that soon-ish.
youtube-dl is very slow so updated the library to yt-dlp to make the download process faster.