Doesn't seem that much simpler, tbh.
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yt-dlp --help vs ytdl -h and you still need to read the man yt-dlp to understand some concepts.
Probably the yt-dlp config could easily reduce complexity and leverage yt-dlp the most. However cool project though.
TBH I just set an alias to alias yt='yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4"' and then yt [URL of video] is all I need to type.
Hi, a little bit late to reply, but I just saw your comment. Agreed with you, if this is all you need, its better to have simple alias than using a foreign script from someone else. I had something like this too, but it was not enough for me. In example when I want to download entire playlist (which would create dedicated subfolder as well), or want to extract the audio for music only. And I also want to download or embed meta informations and other files.
Once you see whats possible, you won't go back (at least for me). yt-dlp is very complex by its nature and my script is a hope to make a few steps easier, and to bring attention to really cool features such as sponsorblock. Also I just recently found out it can repack the output format to "mp4" in example, which I added it as an option -f .
Sorry for the lengthy reply to a comment that was not targeted to me, but I felt like telling you this. Have a good day!
Oh yeah I do other more complicated things when necessary, that's just my day-to-day thing for when I need to grab a copy of a video quickly!
Still need someone to understand all the options, write a correct configuration. A configuration is still a single configuration for a single use case and would a different one based on what I want to do, and it still requires a script with options. There are some option dependencies, that are not possible without a script. I believe this script would help other users too, who just pick one or two options from this short list.