youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube and many other sites. It is very up-to-date and typically responds very quickly to changes on the YouTube website which causes trouble for other downloaders.
Use cases: | download video |
Category: | |
Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) |
Stealth: ? | Yes. Can save cache to the user's profile, see more here. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Unlicense FOSS |
How to extract: | Download youtube-dl.exe to a folder of your choice and launch. |
What's new? |
See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases |
new version 2021.12.17 .. .. (https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html)
v2021.01.24.1
"yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project." See: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
v2021.12.17