yt-dlp now needs javascript
February 19, 2026 —
BarryK
yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, a video downloader from YouTube. It now has an optional dependency:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012
The 'deno' package is not in the Devuan repository, besides, it is huge; instead I chose 'quickjs', as that is fairly small.
The PET package 'youtubedl-gui' has been updated to version 0.6.
The change is that yt-dlp now requires the commandline parameter
"--js-runtimes quickjs".
Tags: easy