Only recently discovered yt-dlp, despite its popularity. However I was wondering if I were to use this, should it be used behind a VPN when downloading videos off public websites?

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

    • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Just so you have a heads up:

      If you use yt-dlp like a regular user, you shouldn’t have a problem. If you use it to download like a thousand videos at once then YouTube may block you out or rate limit you or something.

      If that happens, or that’s your use case, then you may need to use a VPN