Comment by em-bee
3 years ago
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.
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