yt-dlp CLI vs. yt-dlp GUI (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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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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[-] raman_klogius@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago

I find that preparing config files for each type of media is mighty useful for sustained use of the cli program. This makes it so that downloads all get specced identically. Then you prepare batch/bash scripts or aliases that point to those config files and place them in one of the paths in the environment variable %path% / ${PATH}. then you just call that batch file with the URLs you want to download.