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 3.2+ to work.

2016.05.21.2 (sig)

Windows exe (sig - fa3d62243800a8301790c457a45a5493486d3c72d1d841c2915ef44a9607cc68)
Full source + docs + binary tarball (sig - 66f94fc97012c4c7a6338dc4df6ec62af66dcfc144c5e8c8cd8b5519756f1a98)

To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type: sudo curl https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2016.05.21.2/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

If you do not have curl, you can alternatively use a recent wget: sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2016.05.21.2/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /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.

You can use Homebrew if you have it: brew install youtube-dl

To check the signature, type: sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2016.05.21.2/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:

Older releases are also signed with one of: