yt-dlp 2024.10.7

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

Stars: 84647, Watchers: 84647, Forks: 6601, Open Issues: 1702

The yt-dlp/yt-dlp repo was created 3 years ago and the last code push was 35 minutes ago.
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How to Install yt-dlp

You can install yt-dlp using pip

pip install yt-dlp

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add yt-dlp

Package Details

Author

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License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means. In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this software under copyright law. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. For more information, please refer to <http://unlicense.org/>

Homepage

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PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/yt-dlp/

Documentation:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Classifiers

• Multimedia/Video

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Errors

A list of common yt-dlp errors.

Code Examples

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GitHub Issues

The yt-dlp package has 1702 open issues on GitHub

• Resolve unintuitive interaction between --ignore-errors and --concat-playlist
• make a –really-best-format option
• Should we report if –geo-bypass doesn't help ?
• How to get 1080p iq.com
• [BRMediathek] redirect fails
• [RTnews] field allocation
• Site support request: ina.fr
• –add-metadata / –embed-metadata from Python
• Fix platzi
• Site support request: sex.com
• Site support request: Musicbed
• platzi Unable to extract data
• [Generic] Linux – Fixed issue with cookies from browser with unsupported desktop session
• [TikTok] Iterate through app versions
• Download throws errors, even with re-run

See more issues on GitHub