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.

2013.06.30 (sig)

Windows exe (sig - d7ab163b346822b8b3f653ae96fba25b01664d11c0fa1f4d785ff6dfee3719b2)
Full source + docs + binary tarball (sig - 4b925a355287bb77076cff4f46798194067ae75a517aefc438e60bb5423eab1a)

To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type: sudo wget http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.06.30/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/2013.06.30/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: