Comment by ufmace

2 years ago

IMO, if you're capable of running yt-dlp, it's far better than any website.

It's pretty simple to run these download tools as website, but it's expensive in terms of bandwidth and tends to attract legal attention. So a lot of websites go up supporting it, but even if they were started with good intentions, they will virtually all eventually add intrusive ads or other types of monetization just to break even. So there's never going to be a reliable website for it. If you're lucky, a search engine will send you to one that's working okay right now, but even odds you'll be fighting through a dozen malware nests.

Meanwhile, yt-dlp just works every time, with only an occasional pip upgrade to keep it up to date.