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Original youtube-dl got throttled by youtube, dlp currently doesn't. Can't work out from the release notes if this is fixed.

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I think yt-dlp uses multiple simultanous connections, just like you could do with youtube-dl and, for example, aria2[1]

    youtube-dl --external-downloader=aria2c --external-downloader-args '--min-split-size=1M --max-connection-per-server=16 --max-concurrent-downloads=16 --split=16' xlvbT8dv5Gc

[1] https://aria2.github.io/

No. Also, I tried that with youtube-dl but it doesn't work reliably (throttling still takes effect, with all but one connection simply timing out). [1]

yt-dlp uses a different method than youtube-dl (I believe it uses the API used by the Android app, instead of by the youtube.com website).

[1]: https://github.com/CyberShadow/turbotuber

> I believe it uses the API used by the Android app, instead of by the youtube.com website

Clever.

Clever is rarely a good idea. If this isn't a public it might just be totally broken instead of throttled.

If they're accurately reproducing the behavior of the Android app, Google can't change or remove that API without breaking versions of the app that people already have installed. (And a lot of Android users will hang on to old versions of apps basically forever.)

Wow that explains why downloads were slow. I'll check out dlp, thank you so much.

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