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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: 3965fe7e6f9eca37d187e78b1b9f8106fffc7b7f5ee70b1b71e15377ef96a1bd
Windows exe (sig - SHA256 0b78c04d26f1e7076eff62d762f4028cdb1a8617789351149da31927bf98ae75)
Full source + docs + binary tarball (sig - SHA256 cc95ce1477afeee0e0d3a5e5c92baf52d223b121d950795367d8a3185bf6f76c)
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:
Older releases are also signed with one of:
7D33 D762 FD6C 3513 0481 347F DB4B 54CB A482 6A18 (until 2016-05-30)0600 E1DB 6FB5 3A5D 95D8 FC0D F5EA B582 FAFB 085C (until 2013-06-01)428D F5D6 3EF0 7494 BB45 5AC0 EBF0 1804 BCF0 5F6B (until 2014)