Package request: ytdl-org/youtube-dl

[Oskar Skog]

On 2024-01-02 08:40, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> Good morning!
> 
> I'd like to request https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl as a Cygwin
> package, so we can mirror training videos locally.
> 
> Also, it is a cool demo to show the power of Cygwin, to show that it
> can download youtube videos without paying for "Youtube Premium" =:-)
> 
> Ced

I think yt-dlp might be better.  I had to switch to it a while ago when 
youtube-dl took too long to fix an issue with downloading from Youtube.

You also don't need to package it, you should be able to install it with 
pip.

python3 -m ensurepip
pip3 install yt-dlp

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