Youtube download speed still slow

[ahm750]

Checklist

• [x] I'm reporting a broken site support
• [x] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• [x] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [x] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• [x] I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Description

It's great to see that youtube-dl has finally received an update. However, the slow download speed issue is still present. @dstftw Do you plan to update youtube-dl to fix this problem?

[Fritskee]

Issue has been addressed before, fixes have also been provided. I had the same issue and installing this merge request fixed it: pip install --force-reinstall -U git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl@refs/pull/30184/merge

Getting solid 5MiB/s now

[alakani]

The fact that a vaguely useful project ever existed here is merely coincidental; this project was created solely as a way for its malignant narcissist maintainer to use more people as a source of narcissistic supply. He has time to troll his own users every single day but apparently no time to do releases in 6 months. Brew install yt-dlp it's a fork by people who actually give a crap, all the bugs that dstftw uses as an excuse to attack and gaslight users were fixed in the other port many many months ago; speeds are good, the insane command line options make sense now and the defaults are actually useful, and thinking about using it doesn't make me want to decapitate myself. YMMV

[Fritskee]

@alakani fun guy!

[ahm750]

Issue has been addressed before, fixes have also been provided. I had the same issue and installing this merge request fixed it: pip install --force-reinstall -U git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl@refs/pull/30184/merge

Getting solid 5MiB/s now

What about the Windows binary?

[Fritskee]

Issue has been addressed before, fixes have also been provided. I had the same issue and installing this merge request fixed it: pip install --force-reinstall -U git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl@refs/pull/30184/merge Getting solid 5MiB/s now

What about the Windows binary?

Idk man, I don’t do windows. Just pip install it in a virtual environment…

[FranciscoPombal]

Just use https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp instead.

The current maintainer has proven himself to be incapable of properly steering this project.

Admittedly, this is a hard thing to do for a project of this size and reach, but by no means an insurmountable task - people organize themselves all the time to do this successfully. However, the total refusal to seek help, delegate, and communicate, resulting in a period of 6 month-long radio silence followed a paltry release that doesn't fix the most pressing issue (throttling) without further explanations or apologies in such a crucial project is just inexcusable.

It is irresponsible and damaging to the FOSS world to run an important project like this. Less technical users who don't keep up with every little bit of news haven't heard about yt-dlp, and so have been stuck with a barely-functioning youtube-dl release for months.

At this point the maintainer should cede the repository to the maintainers of yt-dlp, so that they can continue its development under the better-known youtube-dl "brand"/name. The last thing that we need is for youtube-dl to become another Apache OpenOffice: 1, 2.

[fastily]

It's over folks. dstftw has removed himself from the list of active maintainers. Might as well consider this repository done and archived at this point

[ugjka]

Open source is a cut throat business and no one is getting paid

[dirkf]

Issue has been addressed before, fixes have also been provided. I had the same issue and installing this merge request fixed it: pip install --force-reinstall -U git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl@refs/pull/30184/merge

See https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326#issuecomment-997272011.

[RichCaloggero]

Having same issue. It's pretty clear IMO that google / youtube is throttling. If they wanted us to be able to download content, they would give us a download button, or other way via the UI to download. Just the facdt that this program and others like it exist should tell you that we're in an arms race with one of the most powerful corporations on the planet, and at the moment, we're losing.

Remember to always check every binary you install for malware!

[FranciscoPombal]

It's over folks. dstftw has removed himself from the list of active maintainers. Might as well consider this repository done and archived at this point

@dstftw

Please consider collaborating with the yt-dlp maintainers and put them in charge of this repository, so that they can continue development of their active fork under the better-known name.

Alternatively, set this repository to archived status and place a big notice at the top of the README stating that it is abandoned, but further development continues on the yt-dlp fork.

Your efforts in the maintenence of the project are much appreciated, but you can't (well, shouldn't) abandon a project without ensuring all users know where they can go next - it's the least you can do when stepping down as a maintainer.

[RichCaloggero]

yt-dlt does seem to fix the issue, and doesn't seem to have installed malware.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

[darksystem23]

Issue has been addressed before, fixes have also been provided. I had the same issue and installing this merge request fixed it: pip install --force-reinstall -U git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl@refs/pull/30184/merge Getting solid 5MiB/s now

What about the Windows binary?

Idk man, I don’t do windows. Just pip install it in a virtual environment…

Thanks @Fritskee , your proposal seems to work. Unfortunately, Fedora decided to stop maintaining this library up-to-date. Last one on Fedora 35 from June... I've seen many people complaining about this issue, but sometimes it's just about how your distribution is maintaining the library. However, yt-dlp is up-to-date, so it seems the Fedora team is supporting the alternative.

Thanks :)

[andyncake]

I have an alternative tool that works with Windows:

https://github.com/89z/mech/releases/tag/v1.42.0

I admire your bravery and shamelessness in promoting your useless project everywhere.

[dirkf]

Someone had a bad day?

As we all know, yt-dlp is a fork that shares code and a lot of UI with yt-dl. If yt-dlp can do something that yt-dl ought to do, it's normally possibly to back-port the code, and installing yt-dlp may also be a drop-in solution for some users.

It isn't generally helpful in a GH support forum to recommend an alternative program, since contributors are trying improve the subject program. There are other places to discuss various (in this case) media archiving tools.

A comment describing a technique that could be applied to improve the subject program is a quite reasonable opportunity to mention how the technique is successfully implemented in a similar program.

[dirkf]

Watch out everyone, issue police is here!

Nice emojis but let's not obscure that the (now also deleted) post replaced a humourless insult responding to @andyncake, one that reflected so poorly on the author that I didn't quote it. Anyone who has run or contributed to software projects can distinguish useful contributions from marginal trolling.

Or perhaps @89z is a New York cop outside GH?

Lady tourist to cop: "Officer, can you tell me the way to Times Square, please, or should I just go fuck myself?"

[That's how I remember the gag from quite a long time before all of these versions.]

[fstirlitz]

one that reflected so poorly on the author that I didn't quote it.

Not to worry, nothing gets lost on the Internet…

Screenshot from OctoDroid.

 I would assume this is generated from GitHub’s public API. Anyone can open [the commenter’s page](https://github.com/89z) in the same app and verify.

Perhaps Steven Penny from Dallas should think twice before he writes. I would not hope to get hired with that attitude.

[dirkf]

.... doxxing ...

What, like Google?

[kssi]

Steven, as per Wikipedia:

Doxing or doxxing is the act of publicly revealing previously private personal information about an individual or organization

Essentially, doxing is revealing and publicizing the records of an individual, which were previously private or difficult to obtain.

I suggest you stop being so painfully wrong about everything you do and state.

[alakani]

personal information

Your email address is on your public profile, the github logs are also public and you would have to take it up with them. Your profile also implies that you own zombo.com - I don't think Josh would appreciate that, especially with how you're acting

[kssi]

the name and location fstirlitz listed is not on my profile, nor any comment about me getting hired.

It was just yesterday. And liar on top of that.

[alakani]

name and location fstirlitz listed is not on my profile

They're being petty because they didn't like you spamming and attacking people for no reason, but it's still public information. You posted it all yourself to public websites. If you're ashamed of stuff that you posted yourself, well....

changed my info to Zombo because

A website or twitter are not mandatory here, no need to put somebody else's info on your profile

[alakani]

my project is not useless

Yes but it has very little documentation to tell people if it will be useful for their particular situation. You've posted usage examples in random comments, but not on the project page. It doesn't work if you just yell at people and tell them it's good, you'd have to show them. It's better if users tell people about the project, if the maintainer does it many times per day, it's spam

no actual contributions

I don't have any public either, unfortunately. Some day.

arent really on topic

And telling everybody to copulate with themselves and consume genitalia is?

[alakani]

dont think I need advice

We're trying to help you not get banned from github entirely, you've violated the TOS several times

[megapro17]

you violated tos multiple times too, be careful

Ahahahah he deleted all his replies. can anyone share what was there? it should be in email, if you replied before

[fstirlitz]

• https://archive.ph/https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30398
• https://archive.ph/H7h26

(I guess we owe an apology to the original author of this ticket, who probably didn’t open it just to be witness to this silly spat.)

[megapro17]

@fstirlitz Oh, sorry, I checked archive org, but forgot about this. Thanks

[dirkf]

(I guess we owe an apology to the original author of this ticket, who probably didn’t open it just to be witness to this silly spat.)

@alakani, @fstirlitz, @kssi, @megapro17 As many comments that were being responded to have magically disappeared, shouldn't we just hide our spat-related posts as off-topic?

[megapro17]

What's the point, if issue will not be resolved anyway here, and it's fixed long time ago in fork.

[jk-85]

pip install --force-reinstall -U git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl@refs/pull/30184/merge

I tried that command but it says "Did not find branch or tag 'refs/pull/30184/merge', assuming revision or ref." and then installs an old version (2021.06.06.) What can I do?

[dirkf]

Your pip may be too old.

1. Try pipx, or just get the latest commit from the PR (at the time of writing) instead:

   pip install --force-reinstall -U git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl@905d1d281ddfa5d183fc445010d350cefc6a58ec

[20NE]

come on, just merge it, gdi

[dirkf]

Quite, but ....

[jk-85]

Oops, yes, you're right, thank you, my pip was too old.

[AndNovAtor]

Hey guys:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184#issuecomment-1025261055

dirkf wroted: Closed with merge of 57044ea..af9e725.

Yupi!

[nilsonsales]

Hey guys:

#30184 (comment)

dirkf wroted: Closed with merge of 57044ea..af9e725.

Yupi!

Hey! Do you know how can I download this latest version? I've tried both via pip or curl latest (as in the instructions), but I can only get the version from 2021.12.17.

[garoto]

only get the version from 2021.12.17.

version date information is only updated when generating a new release:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/devscripts/release.sh#L74-L75

[HIBFITAS]

I don't know if it has been fixed already, but aria2c seems to ease the pain for me. I use aria2c to start like 10 connections to the server and it will merge them down to a file. I didn't try with more than 10. I don't know what the max is, but anyway it should be 10 x 70kb.

This is what works for me in Windows 10 – cmd-box:

youtube-dl.exe -url "https://youtu.be/dvV6x2BQoXk" --username=yourusername@gmail.com --password=yourpassword --audio-quality 256K --external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args "-c -j10 -x10 -s10 -k1M"

These are youtube-dl switches: -url --username --password --audio-quality 256K --external-downloader --external-downloader-args

These are aria2c switches: "-c -j10 -x10 -s10 -k1M"

Please refer to both youtube-dl and aria2c docs for their command-line switches. --hope it help those who didn't upgrade (like me :) )--

[mikewesten]

Issue has been addressed before, fixes have also been provided. I had the same issue and installing this merge request fixed it: pip install --force-reinstall -U git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl@refs/pull/30184/merge

Getting solid 5MiB/s now

gives me this

Collecting git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl@refs/pull/30184/merge Cloning https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl (to revision refs/pull/30184/merge) to /tmp/pip-req-build-qi7fdes3 Running command git clone -q https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl /tmp/pip-req-build-qi7fdes3 WARNING: Did not find branch or tag 'refs/pull/30184/merge', assuming revision or ref. Running command git fetch -q https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl refs/pull/30184/merge fatal: couldn't find remote ref refs/pull/30184/merge ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 128: git fetch -q https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl refs/pull/30184/merge Check the logs for full command output.

[dirkf]

You can install from the HEAD instead: the PR has been merged. I hope that means just leaving off the @... but check the pip documentation.

[AndNovAtor]

@dirkf , I want to note some interesting behavior. Current master is works fine, all good. But if I use NOW "drop-in-replacement" file from https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184 (your direct link ), it's slow "again". And before ~12.02.2022 - all was fine too with "drop-in-replacement" file.

So, I used "drop-in-replacement" file, to "modify" my youtube-dl installed by pip (I didn't use installing by pip from "merge"), simply download this file, backup "old" file in Python lib dir, paste "new" file there). SImply. Since 2021.06.06 version (I used it since ~12.2021). All worked fine. Till ~12.02.2022.

Now, if I use stable release (from pip) with replaced youtube.py file, I got this multiple (~23 lines) "error": WARNING: [youtube] Couldn't extract YouTube video throttling parameter descrambling function name Than downloading "fallback" to simple downloading, so speed again is ~50kb/s. Tested on multiple internet providers (maybe, it's a reason still...).

Again: I tried lastest dev version on master (installed to "dedicated" "clean" virtualenv by pip install git+https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) - and all works fine, normal fast speed.

I simply noted this behavior. No actions is needed, this old "issue" was "fixed" on master branch (and I know, that "drop-in-replacement" file "can" be "old"). Just a note.

P.s. - Sorry, I forgot that this issue ALREADY marked as solved, and I posted message here, to closed issue 🤦‍♂️ Still, just a note....

[dirkf]

Probably YT brought out new player JS that breaks the now unmaintained drop-in module. The approach used in the master branch is more resilient to player instability.