yt-dlp – a verstatile video downloader tool

yt-dlp is a command-line tool for which allows a user to download audio/video from thousands of sites. The project is a fork of youtube-dl, which is based on the now inactive youtube-dlc.

yt-dlp can be installed using official releases or via package manager.

Unix-like operating system

curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o ~/.local/bin/yt-dlp
chmod a+rx ~/.local/bin/yt-dlp  # Make executable

To update yt-dlp in Unix-like operating system

yt-dlp -U

Homebrew MacOS

brew install yt-dlp

Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomtomtom/yt-dlp # Add ppa repo to apt
sudo apt update # Update package list
sudo apt install yt-dlp # Install yt-dlp

Snap

sudo snap install --edge yt-dlp

Windows operating system

yt-dlp is also available for Windows operating system by using, winget:

winget install yt-dlp

Microsoft Windows binary package

The binary package for Microsoft Windows binary package can be downloaded from yt-dlp GitHub release page

Note that yt-dlp requires ffmpeg windows binaries which can be obtained from gyan.dev’s Codex FFMPEG Build

Please refer to this post for more information on the tips and tricks on using yt-dlp.