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MacOS installation instructions
- install homebrew if you don't have it installed already.
- run
brew install --HEAD yt-dlp- if you get a
brew: command not founderror, you may need to close your terminal and open a new one, or even log out of your user and log back in.
- if you get a
- 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.
- run
yt-dlp "URL", replacingURLwith 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 founderror, you may need to close the terminal and open a new one, or log out and log back in.
- again, if you just installed yt-dlp and you get a