yt-dlp-invidious 0.0.2

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yt-dlp-invidious

This is a plugin for yt-dlp.
The plugin adds two extractors: InvidiousIE and InvidiousPlaylistIE.
The code is based on https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/31426.

Installation

1. Download the latest release zip from releases

2. Add the zip to one of the yt-dlp plugin locations

   • User Plugins

     • ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/yt-dlp/plugins (recommended on Linux/MacOS)
     • ~/.yt-dlp/plugins/
     • ${APPDATA}/yt-dlp/plugins/ (recommended on Windows)

   • System Plugins

     • /etc/yt-dlp/plugins/
     • /etc/yt-dlp-plugins/

   • Executable location

     • Binary: where <root-dir>/yt-dlp.exe, <root-dir>/yt-dlp-plugins/

For more locations and methods, see installing yt-dlp plugins

Usage

Pass --ies Invidious,InvidiousPlaylistIE to yt-dlp. The plugin automatically matches the video id so you can just pass a YouTube link or even just a video_id.

Extractor arguments

InvidiousIE:

• max_retries: maxium retry times.
  e.g. --extractor-args "Invidious:max_retries=infinite" (unrecommended),
  --extractor-args "Invidious:max_retries=3", etc.