rinv-yt
A command-line audio/video downloader supporting thousands of sites, forked from yt-dlp.
About this fork
This is a personal fork maintained independently of the upstream yt-dlp team. The underlying engine, extractors, and core functionality come from yt-dlp (itself a fork of youtube-dl) — full credit to those projects and their contributors.
For the complete original documentation (all install methods, every CLI option, full site list, etc.), see README.upstream.md.
Install
pip install -e .
Basic usage
python -m rinv_yt <video URL>
Common options:
python -m rinv_yt -f best <URL> # pick best combined format
python -m rinv_yt -x --audio-format mp3 <URL> # extract audio only
python -m rinv_yt -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" <URL> # custom output filename
License
Released under the Unlicense, same as upstream yt-dlp. Some bundled components carry their own licenses — see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt.
Credits
- yt-dlp contributors — the codebase this fork is built on
- youtube-dl — the project yt-dlp itself forked from
1 maintainer
Metadata
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