Installation Manual

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

SHA256

Latest: 2016.08.07 (sig)

SHA256: c393ebf93919429919c00f23d38b1dc10c12984a97f138839d06ab65dac521ec

Windows exe (sig - SHA256 0e9f18b36bc1a848d68a9ce0dc67838cc5095355b70ab18137eaf75cc41247e4)
Full source + docs + binary tarball (sig - SHA256 6f42477c562291cd392b7a034a7b828bbf1e209a48de7629848ba82a3aacdc1f)

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:

4096R/A4826A18 Philipp Hagemeister Key fingerprint = 7D33 D762 FD6C 3513 0481 347F DB4B 54CB A482 6A18
4096R/18A9236D Sergey M. Key fingerprint = ED7F 5BF4 6B3B BED8 1C87 368E 2C39 3E0F 18A9 236D

Older releases are also signed with one of:

1024D/FAFB085C Philipp Hagemeister Key fingerprint = 0600 E1DB 6FB5 3A5D 95D8 FC0D F5EA B582 FAFB 085C (until 2013-06-01)
4096R/BCF05F6B Filippo Valsorda Key fingerprint = 428D F5D6 3EF0 7494 BB45 5AC0 EBF0 1804 BCF0 5F6B (until 2014)