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yle-dl vs yt-dlp: catalog facts
yle-dl	yt-dlp
Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.	Free Released into the public domain under the Unlicense; there is nothing to buy.
macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Downloads from Yle Areena, Elävä Arkisto and Yle news Saves videos as Matroska or MP4	Supports thousands of sites, listed in the project’s own supportedsites page Fine-grained format selection, subtitle, thumbnail and metadata embedding
Requires Python and ffmpeg Podcast downloads also require wget	Command line only; the graphical tools around it are separate projects Merging separate video and audio streams needs FFmpeg installed
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later	License: Unlicense
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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