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.

2017.06.18 (sig)

SHA256: 254e4a1bfed50d1bda380c747077176da534c2ba8911f91b7827c2f7c9c67995

Windows exe (sig - SHA256 a9d97ed93f0fd6a207b19f9c12f7dbbe24db56327708a533e327393fe9a97829)
Full source + docs + binary tarball (sig - SHA256 f53d32c2ca64bb7bf2307666b42c88fa68dcc399f6a92ebed01b8693794e5f99)

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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