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.

2013.07.10 (sig)

Windows exe (sig - 4ec695f32d911b65f57d7f7345188483205ae1e06c9d59411586d4825791b41b)
Full source + docs + binary tarball (sig - 7d2dc8213ce50603432fe4b691f98c87b8e0c8c3d738b2beb7074c8c40c99bdd)

To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type: sudo wget http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.07.10/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/2013.07.10/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: