youtube-dl Download Page

Note that if you directly click on these hyperlinks, your web browser will most likely display the program contents. It's usually better to right-click on it and choose the appropriate option, normally called Save Target As or Save Link As, depending on the web browser you are using.

Remember youtube-dl requires Python version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.3+ to work.

2013.05.01 (sig)

Windows exe (sig - 9f30264f99a298a1e40af3c64679228507a8a58ccecbe498801002e4bd60134c)
Full source + docs + binary tarball (sig - 6e4f9e74fa8a1c5924a393150e0ee7013851450cd7f08c474ee17de2a19f762d)

To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type: sudo wget http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.05.01/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

You can also use pip: sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl

This command will update youtube-dl if you have already installed it. See the pypi page for more information.

To check the signature, type: sudo wget http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.05.01/youtube-dl.sig -O youtube-dl.sig
gpg --verify youtube-dl.sig /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
rm youtube-dl.sig

The following GPG keys will be used to sign the binaries and the git tags:

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