I use yt-dlp all the time - admittedly mostly to just rip music that I can’t buy or find elsewhere - and I don’t ever pay them…
yt-dlp sometimes barfs on some videos - sometimes updating it to the latest fixes it - sometimes it doesn’t… I think yt-dlp fork of youtube-dl is better maintained - not even sure if youtube-dl is still maintained…
I also sometimes use yt-dlp on other streaming services - like Vimeo. But - it doens’t work on paid for Vimeo content. I posted about this a couple years back - there was a UK TV show I loved as a child “Grasshopper Island” - and the whole series was available to buy via Vimeo. I still couldn’t download it - but found another method, here :
@clatterfordslim later down the conversation mentioned an AppImage app he uses with youtube-dl “ClipGrab”.
Many years ago - I was the “VJ” at a party - showing Video (music videos) on a big screen TV with a ChromeCast - the only internet was via my phone - so - to save bandwidth - I just used youtube-dl to save locally, then stream (VLC plugin for ChromeCast I think?) to the big screen TV, and bluetooth to a big bluetooth speaker…