yt-dlp 2026.2.4

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

Stars: 145676, Watchers: 145676, Forks: 11797, Open Issues: 2275

The yt-dlp/yt-dlp repo was created 5 years ago and the last code push was 4 hours 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

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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 2275 open issues on GitHub

• Add support for new site: https://fawesome.tv/movies
• Add support for 3m.com
• Failed to extract video information
• ytdlp stopped working after upgrading cachyos
• [ie/patreon] Avoid duplicated entries
• [TikTok] One format, varying results (region-related)
• Requesting new options --write-traffic and --write-timestamp to store traffic and last-modified(–mtime) in separate files.
• [rumble] add channel thumbnail and description support
• [udemy:course] Downloading using cookies throws "unable to extract course id"
• [ie/plurk.com] Add extractor
• Add support for plurk.com
• Add support ukr.radio
• [ie/youtube] Support for downloading uploaded videos if shared in a single post
• [SoundCloud] /tracks URL – ERROR: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable
• Please add XUMO support (https://play.xumo.com)

See more issues on GitHub