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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.
SHA256: e4052e47207f3a41d4514a79209259c13a8a12a09bdb835ed3a0bd98bcd2ed6b
Windows exe (sig - SHA256 1dc7331b6c25ee9f52c0e60ce46ead38a5c301e3c2461f37128f3213cdd8d792)
Full source + docs + binary tarball (sig - SHA256 f0a0ab204dfd0d74316f9b2bd72d4cd8514aa6b67979aeb0a212c7bcebbf6a10)
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:
Key fingerprint = 7D33 D762 FD6C 3513 0481 347F DB4B 54CB A482 6A18
Key fingerprint = ED7F 5BF4 6B3B BED8 1C87 368E 2C39 3E0F 18A9 236D
Older releases are also signed with one of:
Key fingerprint = 0600 E1DB 6FB5 3A5D 95D8 FC0D F5EA B582 FAFB 085C
(until 2013-06-01)Key fingerprint = 428D F5D6 3EF0 7494 BB45 5AC0 EBF0 1804 BCF0 5F6B
(until 2014)