About the program

What is it?

youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. The project is currently being developed at GitHub.

Authors

Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez: program core, YouTube.com InfoExtractor, metacafe.com InfoExtractor and YouTube playlist InfoExtractor.
Danny Colligan: YouTube search InfoExtractor, ideas and patches.
Benjamin Johnson: Google Video InfoExtractor, Photobucket InfoExtractor, Yahoo! Video InfoExtractor, generic InfoExtractor, ideas, patches, etc.
Vasyl' Vavrychuk: DepositFiles InfoExtractor, ideas and patches.
Witold Baryluk: Dailymotion InfoExtractor.
Paweł Paprota: YouTube user videos InfoExtractor.
Gergely Imreh: Facebook InfoExtractor, ideas and patches.
Philipp Hagemeister: Maintainer since 2011, InfoExtractors for blip.tv, thedailyshow/colbertnation, The Escapist
Sören Schulze: myvideo InfoExtractor.
Filippo Valsorda: Developer, Windows build, testing.
Many other people contributing patches, code, ideas and kind messages. Too many to be listed here. You know who you are. Thank you very much.