On Windows 11, is it superior to use the command line interface (e.g., terminal) for interacting with yt-dlp? Or is a GUI like stacher.io sufficient for 99% of needs?

I'm also curious if it is better to use an Ubuntu WSL for yt-dlp CLI for a more streamlined terminal

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[–] drtaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Maybe if you want to customize something, like make your own file naming convention, etc, GUI could be handy.

Even then, it's probably worth learning the CLI commands and setting up a config file with any desired settings. Once that's setup, you're back to yt-dlp url again.

[–] soaringeagle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

do you use a WSL or powershell? windows terminal is inferior to linux terminal imo

[–] drtaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use PowerShell for damn near everything. But I'm pretty sure when you're just typing yt-dlp, space, then pasting the url, then any terminal is as good as any other.

[–] soaringeagle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

good point, i did not know that you could change the configuration file instead of adding all the -cookies and -mp3 tags to the yt-dlp url ... command

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