This fork is better, bypasses age gate and prevents youtube throttling from downloading too fast:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

It's command line so on Windows you just open up cmd.exe, cd to folder, and do "yt-dlp.exe <url>". Read instructions to get ffmpeg, save to same folder, so that it can combine separate audio/video streams... not hard really.

edit: also yt<tab> expands to the command, and just ctrl-c the url from browser and right click in cmd.exe to paste it in.

This fork is better, bypasses age gate and prevents youtube throttling from downloading too fast:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

It's command line so on Windows you just open up cmd.exe, cd to folder, and do "yt-dlp.exe <url>". Read instructions to get ffmpeg, save to same folder, so that it can combine separate audio/video streams... not hard really.