youtube-dl is a free and open source download manager for video and audio from YouTube[2] and over 1,000 other video hosting websites.[3] It is released under the Unlicense software license.[4]

As of September 2021, youtube-dl is one of the most starred projects on GitHub, with over 100,000 stars.[5] According to libraries.io, 308 other packages and 1.43k repositories depend on it.[6] Numerous forks exist of the project.


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In 2021, some community members released a fork of youtube-dl, named youtube-dlc (for "community"). By the end of 2021, the effort was continuing as yt-dlp.[citation needed] It was included in Ubuntu as of the 22.04 release.[12]

In August 2023, German company Uberspace took down a web domain which they hosted at their premises for the original youtube-dl project, citing a regional German court order issued from Landgericht, Hamburg which appeared to ban the mere hosting of information and GitHub developer links related to the cracking of (non-cryptographic) "rolling ciphers."[13] The GitHub subdomain webpage remains in place.

On October 23, 2020, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) issued a takedown notice to GitHub under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), requesting the removal of youtube-dl and 17 public forks of the project. The RIAA request argued that youtube-dl violates the Section 1201 anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, and provisions of German copyright law, since it circumvents a "rolling cipher" used by YouTube to generate the URL for the video file itself (which the RIAA has considered to be an effective technical protection measure, since it is "intended to inhibit direct access to the underlying YouTube video files, thereby preventing or inhibiting the downloading, copying, or distribution of the video files"),[14][15][16] and that its documentation expressly encouraged its use with copyrighted media by listing music videos by RIAA-represented artists as examples. GitHub initially complied with the request.[17][18][19]

Users criticized the takedown, noting the legitimate uses for the application, including downloading video content released under open licensing schemes or to create derivative works falling under fair use (such as for archival and news reporting purposes).[20][5][21] Public attention to the takedown resulted in a Streisand effect reminiscent to that of the DeCSS takedown. Users reposted the software's source code across the internet in multiple formats. For example, users posted images on Twitter containing the whole youtube-dl source code encoded in different colors on each pixel.[22] GitHub users also filed pull requests to GitHub's own repository of DMCA takedown notices that included youtube-dl source code.[22][23]

Which leaves me confused and bewildered beyond repair. I have used youtube-dl for over a year now & installed on macOS & Debian systems - with no problems. I know Ubuntu is different, but... this is confusing.

If you install the youtube-dl package from the 20.04 Ubuntu archive, it does not result in any /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl file. So probably you have previously installed youtube-dl in some other way than one of the ways you mention in your question, and that may be the cause of the confusion.

The pip3 way is a good way to get the latest available version. Please note though, that if you install via pip3 as your own user (i.e. without sudo) the youtube-dl executable will end up in $HOME/.local/bin, and you may need to log out and log in again to make that directory be included in PATH.

There are installation instructions on yt-dl's GitHub site that effectively download a copy of the latest version of youtube-dl to /usr/local/bin - they are simple enough even I could follow them.

But that leads to another problem - possibly an Ubuntu problem, a Python problem or a youtube-dl problem... I don't know whose problem it is, but here's the problem. After following the yt-dl installation instructions, try to check the version:

Personally, this manual installation solution works best for me as I have no interest in becoming entangled in all of the Pythonic minutae; virtual environments and other artifacts. And while it's disappointing that Ubuntu's repo can do no better than a version of youtube-dl that's 8 months old, this installation procedure does have one advantage over the apt repo:

I want to extract audio from a video downloaded with youtube-dl on Windows. I got youtube-dl working, but am unable to extract the audio. This problem is caused due to not having the correct audio codes installed.

Hi, @greenBucket! Maybe the old youtube-dl binary is still being recognized. The youtube-dl binary is currently installed via pip. You can check out the requirements file at requirements/requirements.txt.

Section 1201 dates back to the late 1990s and did not anticipate the various implications it has for software use today. As a result, Section 1201 makes it illegal to use or distribute technology (including source code) that bypasses technical measures that control access or copying of copyrighted works, even if that technology can be used in a way that would not be copyright infringement. Circumvention was the core claim in the youtube-dl takedown.

By default youtube-dl tries to download the best available quality, i.e. if you want the best quality you don't need to pass any special options, youtube-dl will guess it for you by default.

Maybe some kind of 4K support is necessary on the destination system, which the youtube-dl uses to determine which resolution is the "best quality". Why should it download a 4K-video if the system supports only full-HD? Just a thought.

Adding ffmpeg did allow me to download the 4k video of the video in the github issue when using no youtube-dl flags. But I couldn't get any --format option to download the 4k video. Even something simple like youtube-dl --format best would not work. I could add an option to not use any arguments but it is strange that "best" doesn't download the best even with ffmpeg.

ryecoaaron Thank you for maintaining the plugin!


Just an idea: Would it make sense to introduce some kind of "Extra Options" field to customize the way how the plugin downloads a file? There are so many command line switches available for youtube-dl, which you can never map all of them in the GUI.

It isn't recommended to mix APT python packages with pip but in this case youtube-dl has to change regularly because YouTube modify their APIs to try and stop them and pip doesn't need any other dependencies for this package so it shouldn't wreck any system Python packages. Just don't make a habit of it

I just used Synaptic to install yt-dlp from Devuan repository (under Chimaera, using stable-backports). Problem solved. After all, all these weeks later youtube-dl has still not fixed the slowdown-issue (yt-dlp has fixed it, as have others).

The version in the Repository is identical to that currently available under GitHub (I checked before install). In addition, yt-dlp -U will auto-update (just like youtube-dl) and without any of that local-bin nonsense - I have two youtube-dl's because of delays in Jessie updates, but have fixed that in Chimaera by making use of backports.

What I do now is call a .bat file on a schedule basis with all my arguments, naming structures, archives, etc. So it's fairly automated except that I would have to download a newer youtube-dl version manually

Alternatively, I've come around this and this but I wouldn't know how to setup or if it could manage to handle my script. So I was thinking... is there a way that I could have unraid read my batch files on a regular basis and run youtube-dl? Much like I do right now on windows

tl;dr youtube-dl docker containers I tested can't handle some or all my output arguments for channels I regularly download to archive. is there a way to make unraid call a batch file (or similar) on a schedule basis and run youtube-dl to download newly added videos that are not listed in its output archive?

You can use the User.Scripts plugin to run a bash script on a schedule. So far as running youtube-dl specifically the best way is within a docker container. You would use a docker run command in your script (probably with the --rm option to delete the container when done) to launch a youtubedl container from your script. Depending on the image you choose you may need to override the container entrypoint to directly launch youtubedl and then your would pass your arguments in the docker cmd. e24fc04721

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