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Bypassing YouTube video download throttling

by vedard blog.0x7d0.dev published 2023-08-139 min read

Have you ever tried to download videos from YouTube? I mean manually without relying on software like youtube-dl, yt-dlp or one of “these” websites. It’s much more complicated than you might think.

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