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[EJS] Add note about QuickJS executable name (#76)

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2026-04-26 23:11:19 +02:00
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| [Bun](#bun) | Enable with `--js-runtimes bun` |
| [QuickJS](#quickjs--quickjs-ng) | Enable with `--js-runtimes quickjs` |
The JavaScript runtime executable should be located within your `PATH` (or located in the same folder as your `yt-dlp.exe` if you are on Windows). Otherwise, you'll need to specify the path to the JS runtime executable (or its containing folder) in your `--js-runtimes` argument, e.g.:
```
--js-runtimes "deno:/path/to/deno"
```
### deno
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- QuickJS versions prior to `2025-4-26` are missing optimizations which can lead to execution times of several minutes.
- QuickJS-NG versions prior to `0.12.0 `are missing optimizations which can lead to execution times of several minutes.
- Both QuickJS and QuickJS-NG do not fully allow executing files from stdin, so yt-dlp will create temporary files for each EJS script execution. This can theoretically lead to time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerabilities.
- The filename of the executable must be `qjs` (or `qjs.exe` on Windows), or else the path to *the executable file* must be specified in the `--js-runtimes` argument.
## Step 2: Install EJS challenge solver scripts (yt-dlp-ejs)