[em-bee]

if it's going to need much more than that then it probably would make more sense to port the whole application to javascript instead.

but then this could be turned into a commandline browser that is able to interpret a whole web-page and save the resulting html structure instead of the source as curl/wget would do.

[pvillano]

Eventually, YouTube-dl might have to simulate an entire browser and human user to fool Google. Until then, the usefulness of YouTube-dl is that it's less heavy than a full browser.

I bet someone's already started a YouTube downloader that uses a headless browser