> This is a follow-up to #14404, which announced that yt-dlp will soon require an external JavaScript runtime (e.g. Deno) in order to fully support downloading from YouTube.
> With the release of yt-dlp version 2025.11.12, external JavaScript runtime support has arrived.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012
> This is a follow-up to #14404, which announced that yt-dlp will soon require an external JavaScript runtime (e.g. Deno) in order to fully support downloading from YouTube.
> With the release of yt-dlp version 2025.11.12, external JavaScript runtime support has arrived.