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yt-dlp-exec
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A simple Node.js wrapper for yt-dlp.
It's a fork of youtube-dl-exec which uses yt-dlp as his default binary instead of youtube-dl because youtube-dl doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.
This package works exactly like his origin youtube-dl-exec. If you know how to use the original, you know how to use this one. Just be aware that youtube-dl and yt-dlp are slightly different so go check the documentation to know which commands can be performed here.
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A simple Node.js wrapper for yt-dlp
The npm package yt-dlp-exec receives a total of 218 weekly downloads. As such, yt-dlp-exec popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that yt-dlp-exec demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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