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Hi all, I'm trying to get youtube-dl working on Pythonista 3. Now, this is apparently possible with this little program by shaun-h. This was updated quite some time ago, so I ran 2to3 on it to ensure it would work right. Unfortunately, this was not the case; I come across the error UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 2477: ordinal not in range(128), occuring on line 99/100. Unfortunately simply use pip install youtube-dl in StaSH doesn't work for me, either. Any ideas on how to resolve this error and get youtube-dl working?

It doesnt work, however i managed to install it by using StaSh and running pip install youtube_dl

I am sure still many good reasons for this lib. I used this lib before. But for all my video content, Apple TV, chromecast(4K) etc... I only ever stream the content. The idea of downloading video is becoming such a foreign concept.
I am not trying to be negative, just the above comes to mind when i read the post.

@Phuket2 It can still be useful for watching video on the go. Cellular bandwidth is still quite expensive in a lot of countries (in Germany, you pay about $10 per GB).

This, or when you're on a connection that is a bit too slow or unreliable for streaming. In that case it's nicer to download a video in the background for a while, so you can watch it uninterrupted afterwards, without having to wait for it to buffer every few minutes.