How to install yt-dlp

yt-dlp is media downloader maintained as a fork of youtube-dl with many site support. Releases and documentation are produced by the project team.

About the project

yt-dlp is media downloader maintained as a fork of youtube-dl with many site support. The maintainers own the project, choose releases, and publish their own documentation. This page records a few things worth knowing before you begin.

The project is run by its own contributors rather than by a company. Release cadence, supported platforms and documentation are all decided by the team behind it.

How projects are distributed

There is no single universal route here. Maintainers usually describe the supported options themselves, and the choice varies between platforms and between releases.

Before you start

Look at the supported versions before anything else. Projects narrow their platform range over time, and older systems can be dropped without much warning.

A quick sanity check

A version query afterwards is usually enough to confirm the environment picked it up. If the result is unexpected, the usual causes are a stale path entry or a version manager resolving to a different release.

About these pages

Nothing is published from this domain beyond text. Projects stay where their maintainers put them.