[Waraqa]

See this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359626

[rcarmo]

There are other embeddable JS engines out there.

[myvoiceismypass]

Hmm, like bun? Are there many others?

[ohdeargodno]

And you're welcome to implement them and submit them as a PR.

The yt-dlp contributors are not in the business of writing or finding JS runtimes, they're trying to download videos.