The officially recommended way to install Youtube-dl is just download it, save it in your $PATH, make it executable and start using it right away. The officially recommended way to install Youtube-dl Youtube-dl can be installed in many ways. It supports GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It is a free and open source program written in Python. You can view the complete list of supported sites here. Youtube-dl is not just to download videos from Youtube, but also from a lot of other websites. Youtube-dl can be able to download a single track or the entire playlist in one go.

Youtube-dl is a most popular command line YouTube downloader application. ERROR: unable to open for writing: File name too long WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv Fix “Unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden” Error Download only videos suitable for specific age Download videos in certain quality and/or format

List all available formats of video or playlist

Download video with description, metadata, annotations, subtitles and thumbnail

Ffmpeg concat video ratio off