[dTal]

2 months is a long time in youtube-dl world. It's not really a "software project" in the traditional sense, where you can stop working on it once it's "done". It's more of a "social project", a focal point for the required ongoing activity necessary to keep sites working. Youtube-dl without daily commits is useless.

[bittercynic]

I'm currently using it to download a youtube video. If it still works for it's main function, maybe it's just not a high priority project until something breaks?

[d0lphin]

It's actually already broken. If you try to download more than 3-16 videos (the limit is not clear), you start to be rate limited to 300 kbps or so. According to Reddit this is fixed in a fork called yt-dlp

[ketralnis]

To be honest that sounds fine. You're presumably downloading it to watch it offline, the download speed isn't really material as long as it finishes eventually

[majewsky]

youtube-dl is also used by video players like mpv for live streaming. In this case, 70 kbps is completely unusable for the vast majority of videos.

[geerlingguy]

One other workaround is to use '-F' to get a list of formats, and choose one of the non-default formats to download. This seems to work for me.

[banana_giraffe]

Primary function, perhaps, but it's used for lots of websites that aren't YouTube, and some of those websites have broken.

There are open pull requests and/or bugs for many websites that aren't being approved. This is rather unusual for youtube-dl, it normally had a release ever two weeks or so.

[klodolph]

It may say “YouTube” in the name, but it’s a tool designed to work with many sites.