Youtube-dl uses YouTube
History
youtube-dl was created in 2006 by Ricardo Garcia. Initially, only YouTube was supported, but as the project grew, it began supporting other video sharing websites.Ricardo Garcia stepped down as maintainer in 2011 and was replaced by Philipp Hagemeister, who later stepped down and was replaced by dstftw. In 2021, dstftw stepped down and was replaced by dirkf.In 2021, some community members released a fork of youtube-dl, named youtube-dlc (for “community”). By the end of 2021, the effort was continuing as yt-dlp. It was included in Ubuntu as of the 22.04 release.