# Replace youtube-dl with yt-dlp?

**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replace-youtube-dl-with-yt-dlp/11727
**Category:** Requests
**Created:** [16 May 2022 20:56 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replace-youtube-dl-with-yt-dlp/11727 "2022-05-16T20:56:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Zuse](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/a9adbd/32.png) [@Zuse](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Zuse)
#### Post date: [16 May 2022 20:56 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replace-youtube-dl-with-yt-dlp/11727/1 "2022-05-16T20:56:21Z")

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Hi,

I noticed that youtube-dl is part of dietpi-software (not listed on the website). However, I feel it-dlp is better and offers more incredible speeds (could be down to location).

I feel like it’s worth putting it out there.

Thanks  
[https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp)

![](https://i.ibb.co/z5j3DTC/aaaa.png)

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### Author: ![Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/joulinar/32/57_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [16 May 2022 21:05 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replace-youtube-dl-with-yt-dlp/11727/2 "2022-05-16T21:05:21Z")

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youtube-dl is part of our online docs. That’s where we manage documentation of our software title nowadays.

[https://dietpi.com/docs/software/bittorrent/#youtube-dl](https://dietpi.com/docs/software/bittorrent/#youtube-dl)

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### Author: ![MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/michaing/32/7_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [17 May 2022 05:47 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replace-youtube-dl-with-yt-dlp/11727/3 "2022-05-17T05:47:36Z")

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Tracked here: [https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/5196](https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/5196)  
Should be simple to apply, probably someone else with shell coding capabilities can implement it.

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### Author: ![BluishHumility](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/bluishhumility/32/2382_2.png) [@BluishHumility](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/BluishHumility)
#### Post date: [5 August 2022 00:06 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replace-youtube-dl-with-yt-dlp/11727/4 "2022-08-05T00:06:02Z")

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I am a little late to this thread, but I just wanted to +1 this suggestion to switch to `yt-dlp` since I see the linked GitHub issue is still open.

The `youtube-dl` code has been abandoned for quite some time, and also YouTube heavily throttles it’s performance. I typically get less than 50 KiB/s, which is very slow!

```auto
[download] Destination: BEST SONGS for TODDLERS 👶🎵 (1 to 3 year olds)/16 - ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT 🌊⛵🎶 + More Nursery Rhymes _ Lingokids.mp4
[download] 10.3% of 343.58MiB at 44.94KiB/s ETA 01:57:03

```

From what I have read `yt-dlp` is able to get around this somehow and achieves more reasonable download speeds, plus other features and improvements.

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### Author: ![MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/michaing/32/7_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [17 May 2023 20:40 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replace-youtube-dl-with-yt-dlp/11727/5 "2023-05-17T20:40:05Z")

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This change has been implemented for next DietPi v8.18: [DietPi-Software | Replace youtube-dl with yt-dlp by pulpe · Pull Request #6380 · MichaIng/DietPi · GitHub](https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/6380)