[Andrews54757]

It was pretty straightforward for me to install and use yt-dlp. On a Mac with Homebrew you can do `brew install yt-dlp` to install it in one command. IIRC yt-dlp also provides binaries you can install directly. I'm not sure if installing docker and running a web server is any way easier than that.

However, there are ways to download Youtube videos without installing a native app. For example, it is possible to use a library like Youtube.js [0] to make a browser extension that downloads Youtube videos directly. You won't find those on Google's web store due to policy, but you can find a handful on Github.

0: https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js

[cortesoft]

This project is literally just a UI for yt-dlp. This is for people that want a front end for it.