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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.
Windows exe (sig - 34569c4636952e3eb436f14ab10df7c9fba7a47532d467a4778402e68f82e170)
Full source + docs + binary tarball (sig - dfa7e4bc84c6a393019753f002f0e7e14ac04958395798d74dd151a50362c5e6)
To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type:
sudo curl https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2013.10.29/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+x /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/2013.10.29/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 https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2013.10.29/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:
Key fingerprint = 7D33 D762 FD6C 3513 0481 347F DB4B 54CB A482 6A18
Key fingerprint = 428D F5D6 3EF0 7494 BB45 5AC0 EBF0 1804 BCF0 5F6B
Older releases are also signed with one of:
Key fingerprint = 0600 E1DB 6FB5 3A5D 95D8 FC0D F5EA B582 FAFB 085C
(until 2013-06-01)