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yt-dlp: add option to install a youtube-dl alias

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youtube-dl development seems to have stalled and yt-dlp is the de-facto upstream
nowadays. This provides an easy way to use yt-dlp as a drop-in replacement:

    youtube-dl = yt-dlp.override { withAlias = true; };
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Atemu 2021-09-20 10:50:53 +02:00
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@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
, rtmpSupport ? true , rtmpSupport ? true
, phantomjsSupport ? false , phantomjsSupport ? false
, hlsEncryptedSupport ? true , hlsEncryptedSupport ? true
, withAlias ? false # Provides bin/youtube-dl for backcompat
}: }:
buildPythonPackage rec { buildPythonPackage rec {
@ -50,6 +51,10 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
# Requires network # Requires network
doCheck = false; doCheck = false;
postInstall = lib.optionalString withAlias ''
ln -s "$out/bin/yt-dlp" "$out/bin/youtube-dl"
'';
meta = with lib; { meta = with lib; {
homepage = "https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/"; homepage = "https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/";
description = "Command-line tool to download videos from YouTube.com and other sites (youtube-dl fork)"; description = "Command-line tool to download videos from YouTube.com and other sites (youtube-dl fork)";