{"id":127429,"date":"2022-03-30T08:03:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T08:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/?p=127429"},"modified":"2022-11-14T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:55:20","slug":"how-to-fix-youtube-dl-slow-speed-1400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/how-to-fix-youtube-dl-slow-speed-1400.html","title":{"rendered":"[Workarounds] How to Fix YouTube-DL Slow Speed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I have been downloading various videos from YT with youtube-dl with the little issue for quite a while now. Recently however the dl speeds have dropped from 2-3Mb to 70Kb. It takes longer to download the video than actually watch it. I'm behind a VPN so I've tried different exit points and even turned it off without any success. Has anyone else encountered this recently? \" - Posted by u\/PeterHickman on Reddit.<\/i> <\/p>\n

YouTube-DL is such a powerful download manager for video\/audio files and it costs nothing to download this tool on https:\/\/youtube-dl.org\/. In this post, we\u2019d like to fix YouTube-DL slow issue, as well as other problems you might encounter while using YouTube-DL, check them out if needed!<\/p>\n

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OUTLINECLOSE<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. What is YouTube-DL<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. How to use YouTube-DL<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Solutions to fix YouTube-DL slow issue<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Surefire way to download video from YouTube & bypass Youtube-DL slow issue<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    Part 1: What is YouTube-DL<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    YouTube-dl is a Python-based command-line tool to help users download videos or audios from a wide range of video-sharing sites for free. YouTube-dl has accumulated 100k+ Stars on GitHub since its establishment in 2006 and it has become one of the most starred projects on GitHub.<\/p>\n

    Part 2: How to use YouTube-DL<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    This part will cover the detailed guide on installing YouTube-dl on Windows as well as the usage of YouTube-dl.<\/p>\n

    1. How to install YouTube-DL?<\/b><\/h3>\n

    Step 1:<\/span> Head for the YouTube-dl official site - https:\/\/youtube-dl.org\/, click the \u201cDownload instructions\u201d button in green.<\/p>\n

    \"youtube-dl<\/a><\/div>\n

    Step 2:<\/span> YouTube-dl requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack, install this mentioned package if you haven\u2019t it on your Windows PC.<\/p>\n

    \"youtube-dl<\/a><\/div>\n

    Step 3:<\/span> Download and install YouTube-dl.exe. Hit the \u201cWindows exe\u201d option and kick off the download process.<\/p>\n

    \"youtube-dl<\/a><\/div>\n

    Step 4:<\/span> Open your browser's \"Downloads\" page (let\u2019s take Chrome as an example), click \"Show in folder\", and copy the file path of YouTube-dl in the folder.<\/p>\n

    \"youtube-dl<\/a><\/div>\n

    Step 5:<\/span> Type cmd in the Windows search box and call out Command Prompt panel. Paste the path of YouTube-dl.exe in the Command Prompt.<\/p>\n

    After that, run the command line - youtube-dl --version to check whether the installation has been completed or not. Once it shows the version like 2026.12.17 on the panel, it means you\u2019ve already installed this .exe successfully.<\/p>\n

    \"youtube-dl<\/a><\/div>\n

    2. how to use YouTube-DL<\/b><\/h3>\n

    Feel free to download video\/playlist\/subtitles\/video information using YouTube-DL. There are some command lines for a specific task.<\/p>\n

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