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Facing problem while using Youtube downloader using nodejs
I'm working on a YouTube video downloader similar to Y2Mate or SaveFrom, using Node.js with ytdl and FFmpeg. The problem is that when I download any video, I only get formats up to 360p. I want to ...
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yt-dlp returns non-existent format_id when extracting formats via Python
I'm a Python beginner.
I am using yt-dlp via Python to select the best video format with a target resolution.
However, I sometimes get a format_id that does not actually exist in the -F output.
My 'yt-...
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How does the Seal Android app run yt-dlp locally without Python support?
I’m learning Android development, and one of the apps I use daily is Seal, which allows downloading videos from different platforms. From what I understand, it works locally using yt-dlp, which is a ...
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How can I seek gstreamer pipeline with souphttpsrc which supports bytes seek but does not support time see?
I get YouTube video URL by using yt-dlp tool.
Then I create GStreamer pipeline with 3 elements like this (only video playback for simplicity):
souphttpsrc (location=URL) -> decodebin -> ...
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Python subprocess: Trouble receiving non-ASCII characters from output of yt-dlp
(Windows, Python 3.9.6, yt-dlp 2025年06月09日)
I have a youtube playlist whose titles contain both korean and latin characters. I can print the titles of the videos in the playlist using the below command:...
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YouTube video fetching fails in Docker with "python not found" and unplayable content errors
I'm building a YouTube video info. fetcher using Remix, Node.js, and yt-dlp. It works locally, but fails in Docker with several issues (see output below):
Python not found when trying to use yt-dlp ...
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Why does yt-dlp work locally but fail with a bot error in production (live environment) even with cookies?
I'm trying to download YouTube videos using the yt-dlp Python library in a deployed web application. The same script works perfectly on my local machine, but in the production (live) environment, it ...
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Downloading content of Youtube Audio file directly to Azure Blob Storage
I am trying to download youtube videos / audio files and upload them to Azure Blob Storage without downloading them locally. I am using yt-dlp as it seems to be the most robust tool for my task.
I've ...
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Name of video still "video.mp4" after downloading using yt-dlp
I'm using yt-dlp in a Node.js Express application to download videos from YouTube. I'm extracting the video title and using it to name the downloaded file, but all downloaded files are still named ...
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convert YT video to audio file - "ERROR: Postprocessing: audio conversion failed: Error opening output files: Encoder not found"
I am using yt_dlp with Python to load a video from Youtube as an audio-only mp3 file. Until recently this worked fine, but now I get the following error message:
ERROR: Postprocessing: audio ...
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Trying to Collect Audio from YouTube video without Downloading
I am trying to get just the audio data of songs from YouTube videos to analyze without downloading (Python). I started with using yt-dlp with the following code
def search_youtube(song_name, ...
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Getting the stream buffer data of a video when importing yt_dlp as library?
I have tried searching for my issue but have found no results similar
I have been experimenting around with yt_dlp and tried downloading to the io buffer using {'outtmpl': '-'} but unfortunately I don'...
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Trying to download YouTube video using yt_dlp I get error: Error: '__files_to_merge'
I want to download a YouTube video, I did but the audio is not merged with the video(audio is not audible). How can I fix that using yt-dlp?
Error: '__files_to_merge'
import os
import yt_dlp
def ...
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How do I get homebrew installed packages to be accepted by VSCode?
I have a M1 Macbook Air, and am trying to use yt-dlp in a program.
I did brew install yt-dlp and it installed successfully, but when I used import yt_dlp in the python program, it returned an error ...
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Using yt-dlp, is it possible to get the top N most popular videos of a channel?
Rather than downloading every video from a YouTube channel, is it possible to restrict it to the top N most popular videos?