yt-dlp
Feature-rich command-line tool to download and extract audio and video from websites.
Files, images and media PyPI Unlicense Video
How yt-dlp is used
yt-dlp is a dependency in 15 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 97 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (74.2%), Requests (61.9%), Pydantic (58.8%).
AgentGid articles about yt-dlp
yt-dlp popularity over time
Gid Score 73: downloads 76, use in agent projects 50, GitHub stars 100, downloads trend 60 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with yt-dlp
| python-dotenv | 74.2% of yt-dlp projects · 8.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| Requests | 61.9% of yt-dlp projects · 9.1× more than average |
| Pydantic | 58.8% of yt-dlp projects · 6.8× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 55.7% of yt-dlp projects · 7.3× more than average |
| FastAPI | 53.6% of yt-dlp projects · 7.2× more than average |
| NumPy | 53.6% of yt-dlp projects · 9.2× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 49.5% of yt-dlp projects · 12.5× more than average |
| Pillow | 49.5% of yt-dlp projects · 12.9× more than average |
From all 97 projects in our scan that use yt-dlp, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list yt-dlp as a dependency.
How yt-dlp is funded
Install
| Package | pip install yt-dlp |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (96), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | TIGER-AI-Lab/TheoremExplainAgent, runningZ1/union-search-skill, blogminhquy/javis-os, xiesx123/CreatorBox, datawhalechina/video-devour |
Alternatives to yt-dlp
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