
Now if you check to see which version is installed with youtube-dl -version, it should return 2020.09.20 ( latest version at the time of writing ). As an example you can install youtube-dl by running sudo apt install youtube-dl on Ubuntu or sudo pacman -S youtube-dl on ArchĪlternatively, UNIX users ( including Linux and macOS ) can install youtube-dl by running sudo curl -L -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl and then run sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl. Youtube-dl should be available in the official repositories. NOTE: you can also use pipx to install youtube-dl in an isolated environment. Windows users, should not worry about python right now… If not, you can install it on Linux from the official repos and on macOS via Homebrew with brew install python. On Linux on macOS, python should already be installed. 16, 2020 youtube-dl’s Github repo has been restored. FOSS Front-Ends and Alternatives for Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok and more… And if you don’t, you can install it just as easy as before.ġ.

No it’s not, if you already have it installed it is still working. At least for now until it finds a new home. For some reason, some people are under the impression that just because GitHub complied right away to a absurd request, youtube-dl as a project is dead. Youtube-dl’s GitHub repo was taken down because the RIAA are a bunch of whiny spoiled brats.
