Comment by baobabKoodaa
3 months ago
> It's fine for this project since google is probably not in the business of triggering exploits in yt-dlp
yt-dlp supports a huge list of websites other than youtube
3 months ago
> It's fine for this project since google is probably not in the business of triggering exploits in yt-dlp
yt-dlp supports a huge list of websites other than youtube
But YouTube is the only one that yt-dlp uses Deno for. No other website on yt-dlp's list has put up enough of a fight to merit an external JS runtime; only YouTube.
From the September announcement:
> The JavaScript runtime requirement will only apply to downloading from YouTube. yt-dlp can still be used without it on the other ~thousand sites it supports
I assumed they only use this setup for youtube, that might be wrong
Is there a full list? I struggled to find one
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/2025.09.23/supportedsi...
Thanks!
There's a supportedsites.md file in the base directory of the git repo.
Thanks!