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About 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 2026.06.09

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 Important changes - The minimum supported versions of Deno, Node, and Bun have been raised. The minimum required version of Deno is now v2.3.0; supported Node versions are v22 and up; Bun support has been deprecated and limited to versions 1.2.11 through 1.3.14. - Security - Usage of vulnerable conversions (e.g. %()s) with the --exec option is an all-too-common pitfall. To remedy this, --exec now only allows safe conversions in its command templates. - Most users can simply replace %(...)s with %(...)q in their --exec argument(s). Numeric conversions are unaffected by this change. Using unsafe conversions with --exec poses a significant security risk. Read more - [CVE-2026-50019] File Downloader cookie leak with curl - Impact is limited to users of --downloader curl; cookies are now properly passed to curl so that it respects their scope - [CVE-2026-50023] Dangerous file type creation via insufficient filename sanitization - Writing files with the extensions .desktop, .url, or .webloc is now only allowed in the context of --write-link functionality - [CVE-2026-50574] Arbitrary code execution via manifest downloads with aria2c - Impact is limited to users of --downloader aria2c - Support for downloading HLS and DASH formats with aria2c has been removed. Users affected...

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