Plurrrr

Thu 18 Dec 2025

Downloading "The Story of Python" from YouTube

Yesterday I installed yt-dlp from MacPorts as follows:

sudo port install -v yt-dlp

After a very long wait the installation of yt-dlp was ready.

The program can be used to download videos from a large number of sites, including YouTube. It is a fork of youtube-dl. Since I can recall that command easier, I added the following to my .zshrc:

alias youtube-dl='yt-dlp'

And today I used the following command to download The Story of Python:

youtube-dl \
  https://youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0

Note that youtube-dl is an alias for yt-dlp in the above command.

I downloaded the movie so I can watch it without commercials on our TV via a Raspberry PI running an older version of LibreELEC. The download of the video and merging took 33 minutes and 31 seconds. The resulting video has extension webm so I hope LibreELEC can play it.