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.

2013.08.08 (sig)

Windows exe (sig - b73359e81df7ee2d432b286c1fb9bd1a0920ef4e8e8b89278d94f913ebe5a0a4)
Full source + docs + binary tarball (sig - 779d3271ebcbb604e81c5ceccac3426867e79cd0d1351c4bd541394028ee0b19)

To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type: sudo wget http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.08.08/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/2013.08.08/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: