Download speed is crippling - I can download 100x faster with another method

[FurkanGozukara]

Hello. When I download a video with latest youtube-dl it is extremely slow. Like 50 KB per second

With another method I follow I am able to download with 5000 KB per second

I go to en.savefrom . net

It generates some video save-as-able links

Then I copy and paste that link into uGet with 16 connections

How can I achieve same speed with youtube-dl?

Because this process is annoying

[dirkf]

Duplicate of #29326, where solutions are provided. Also duplicate of at least 15 other issues that OP might have found by following the Broken site support template.

[unityconstruct]

Confirming the 'drop in' youtube.py is working like a beast:
71.2% of 1.99GiB at 13.80MiB/s ETA 00:42

Was sobbing over 56K speeds after checking main page for new release, found this ticket, and did the following:

• git clone repo
• rm'd extractor/youtube.py
• wget copy from above in its place
• apt-get pandoc
• make clean
• make

Hardest part was following the damn instructions instead of hacking the youtube-dl directly to replace the file. Was much easier to do what I would normally do at work & pull repo, replace file, build per instructions. (8-P

Just leaving a note that performance is crazy good with 'drop in' and offer some encouragement to other lazy a$$es that were on the fence whether to wait for another release.

Thx to the team for this utility!!! It has literally changed my life after adding a bash front end. 20TB+ deep into saving the planet from the scourge of L1BT@RD censorhip.