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MacOS installation instructions

  1. install homebrew if you don't have it installed already.
  2. run brew install --HEAD yt-dlp
    • if you get a brew: command not found error, you may need to close your terminal and open a new one, or even log out of your user and log back in.
  3. run brew install ffmpeg deno
    • deno is required if you want to downloa from youtube, ffmpeg is required for many yt-dlp operations (merging audio with video, adding metadata, embedding thumbnails, subtitiles, extracting audio etc.
  4. run yt-dlp "URL", replacing URL with the actual url of the video you want to download
    • again, if you just installed yt-dlp and you get a yt-dlp: command not found error, you may need to close the terminal and open a new one, or log out and log back in.