Comment by Arnavion
3 years ago
They do make it harder from time to time. In fact yt-dlp's interpreter has been broken for a month or so now and the devs finally gave up and told users to just install PhantomJS (which itself hasn't been updated since 2016 and probably has bugs / vulns of its own, but whatever).
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/4635#issuecomment-12...
I mean if this is the direction it’s heading it makes more sense to port yt-dlp to node. It’s already dependent on a scripting language, it may as well be the one YouTube speaks.