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12th November 2025

Research yt-dlp-install-report — A detailed analysis of installing `yt-dlp[default]` via pip on Linux with Python 3.11 reveals that the process brings in six new packages totaling about 39 MB and over 3,000 files, including 44 binary libraries (mainly for cryptography and compression) consuming 8.55 MB.

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