winget install --id yt-dlp.yt-dlpAbout yt-dlp
yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites. The project is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc.
What's new in 2026.03.17
Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are subject to these and other licenses, all of which are compiled in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt Changelog Extractor changes - youtube - Always respect webpage_client extractor-arg (#16250) by bashonly - Fix --live-from-start support (#16254) by bashonly - Update ejs to 0.8.0 (#16269) by bashonly, Grub4K Misc. changes - build: Use PyInstaller v6.19.0 for Windows (#16265) by bashonly - ci: Bump actions pins (#16252) by bashonly - docs: Fix player_client extractor-arg documentation (#16235) by bashonly - test: networking: Mark all CurlCFFIRH tests as flaky for any OS (#16266) by bashonly
Version history
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| 2026.03.17 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are... |
| 2026.03.13 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are... |
| 2026.03.03 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are... |
| 2026.02.21 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are... |
| 2026.02.04 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are... |
| 2026.01.31 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are... |
| 2026.01.29 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are... |
| 2025.12.08 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are... |
| 2025.11.12 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The zipimport Unix executable contains code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are... |
| 2025.10.22 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The PyInstaller-bundled executables are subject to the licenses described in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt Important... |
| 2025.10.14 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The PyInstaller-bundled executables are subject to the licenses described in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt Changelog... |
| 2025.09.26 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The PyInstaller-bundled executables are subject to the licenses described in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt Changelog... |
| 2025.09.23 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README The PyInstaller-bundled executables are subject to the licenses described in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt Important... |
| 2025.09.05 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README Changelog Core changes - Fix --id deprecation warning (#14190) by seproDev Extractor changes - charlierose: Fix... |
| 2025.08.27 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README Changelog Extractor changes - generic - Simplify invalid URL error message (#14167) by seproDev - Use https as... |
| 2025.08.22 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README Changelog Core changes - cookies: Fix --cookies-from-browser with Firefox 142+ (#14114) by bashonly, Grub4K (Wi... |
| 2025.08.20 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README Changelog Core changes - Warn against using -f mp4 (#13915) by seproDev - utils: Add improved jwt_encode functi... |
| 2025.08.11 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README Important changes - The minimum recommended Python version has been raised to 3.10 Since Python 3.9 will reach... |
| 2025.07.21 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README Important changes - Default behaviour changed from --mtime to --no-mtime yt-dlp no longer applies the server mo... |
| 2025.06.30 | Unknown | Installation Discord Donate Documentation Nightly Master A description of the various files is in the README Changelog Core changes - jsinterp: Fix extract_object (#13580) by seproDev Extractor changes - bilibilispacevid... |