Remember youtube-dl requires Python version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+ to work except for Windows exe.

Windows exe requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) and does not require Python that is already embedded into the binary.

2018.12.17 (sig)

SHA256: c778a933f1b674107e274b4066031405ad6ceeae20461be98e54ff0eb7fa8311

Windows exe (sig - SHA256 9033458baa9a166ff30e368df66b2d6e79062b337e6f02a55590c0c961b5aa5e)
Full source + docs + binary tarball (sig - SHA256 33eb88869637a6f019252348ef470042d5bf1ee3a996736aa3bb8cc647fea4d9)

To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type: sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/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/latest/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/latest/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:

• Philipp Hagemeister 7D33 D762 FD6C 3513 0481 347F DB4B 54CB A482 6A18
• Sergey M. ED7F 5BF4 6B3B BED8 1C87 368E 2C39 3E0F 18A9 236D

Older releases are also signed with one of:

• Philipp Hagemeister 0600 E1DB 6FB5 3A5D 95D8 FC0D F5EA B582 FAFB 085C (until 2013-06-01)
• Filippo Valsorda 428D F5D6 3EF0 7494 BB45 5AC0 EBF0 1804 BCF0 5F6B (until 2014)

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