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• Save youtube-dl.exe to your Windows user directory (e.g. C: Users MyUser) to make it easy to access when you open the Windows command line with cmd.exe. Tip: If you want to use youtube-dl.exe from any directory within the command line, you can add youtube-dl to your Windows PATH environment variable.
• Download YouTube videos from the command line using youtube-dl. Youtube-dl is a Python script that’s usable on any distribution.
• Apr 08, 2021 Save youtube-dl.exe to your Windows user directory (e.g. C: Users MyUser) to make it easy to access when you open the Windows command line with cmd.exe. Tip: If you want to use youtube-dl.exe from any directory within the command line, you can add youtube-dl to your Windows PATH environment variable.
• Youtube-dl-gui Download your favorite videos Supported Sites Download Windows Installer Other Platforms. A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular.

It determines the binary filename. The default binary file could be youtube-dl or youtube-dl.exe, depending of the YOUTUBEDLPLATFORM value. It determines the architecture of the machine that will use the youtube-dl binary. The default value will computed from process.platform, being 'unix' or 'win32.

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youtube-dl is an open-sourcedownload manager for video and audio from YouTube^[2] and over 1000 other video hosting websites.^[3] It is released under the Unlicensesoftware license.^[4]

As of July 2021, youtube-dl is one of the most starred projects on GitHub, with over 98.2k stars.^[5] According to libraries.io, 276 other packages and 1.43k repositories depend on it.^[6]

History[edit]

youtube-dl was created in 2006 by Ricardo Garcia.^[7] Initially, only YouTube was supported, but as the project grew, it began supporting other video sharing websites.^[8] Ricardo Garcia stepped down as maintainer in 2011 and was replaced with phihag, who later stepped down and was replaced with dstftw.^[9]

RIAA takedown request[edit]

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'),^[10][11][12] and that its documentation expressly encouraged its use with copyrighted media by listing music videos by RIAA-represented artists as examples. GitHub complied with the request.^[13][14][15]

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).^[16][5][17] Public attention to the take-down resulted in Streisand effect reminiscent to that of DeCSS take-down. 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.^[18] GitHub users also filed pull requests to GitHub's own repository of DMCA takedown notices that included youtube-dl source code.^[18][19]

On November 16, 2020, GitHub publicly reinstated the repository, after the Electronic Frontier Foundation sent GitHub a document contesting the takedown notice, which clarified that the software was not capable of breaching commercial DRM systems. GitHub also announced that future takedown claims under Section 1201 would be manually scrutinized on a case-by-case basis by legal and technical experts.^[20][21]

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References[edit]

Youtube-dl Github

1. ^'Release youtube-dl 2021.06.06'.
2. ^'Debian -- Details of package youtube-dl in sid'. packages.debian.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
3. ^'Supported sites'. youtube-dl's GitHub Pages site. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
4. ^'Unlicense'. Unlicense.org. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
5. ^ ^abCimpanu, Catalin. 'RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos'. ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2020-10-24. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
6. ^'youtube_dl on Pypi'. Libraries.io. Archived from the original on 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
7. ^Garcia, Ricardo (August 8, 2006). 'Release 2006.08.08'. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
8. ^'Supported sites'. youtube-dl. GitHub. 2019. Archived from the original on May 9, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
9. ^Garcia, Ricardo. 'It's very nice to see a project I started reach the front page of HN'. Hacker News. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
10. ^Plaugic, Lizzie (2016-09-27). 'Record labels sue popular YouTube audio-ripping site'. The Verge. Archived from the original on 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
11. ^Masnick, Mike. 'Can Someone Explain To The RIAA That SOPA Didn't Actually Pass?'. Techdirt. Archived from the original on 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
12. ^'RIAA Delists YouTube Rippers From Google Using Rare Anti-Circumvention Notices'. TorrentFreak. 2019-11-09. Archived from the original on 2020-03-29. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
13. ^'dmca/2020-10-23-RIAA.md at master · github/dmca'. GitHub. 2020-10-23. Archived from the original on 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
14. ^Cimpanu, Catalin. 'RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos'. ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2020-10-24. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
15. ^Cushing, Tim (2020-10-26). 'RIAA Tosses Bogus Claim At Github To Get Video Downloading Software Removed'. Techdirt. Archived from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
16. ^Cox, Kate (2020-10-26). 'GitHub boots popular YouTube download tool after RIAA claim'. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
17. ^Higgins, Parker (2020-10-26). 'Music industry forces widely used journalist tool offline'. Freedom of the Press Foundation. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
18. ^ ^ab'RIAA's YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub's CEO'. Torrentfreak. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
19. ^Mehta, Ivan (2020-10-27). 'GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies'. The Next Web. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
20. ^Vollmer, Abby (November 16, 2020). 'Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back'. The GitHub Blog. GitHub, Inc. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
21. ^'GitHub revamps copyright takedown policy after restoring YouTube-dl'. Engadget. Retrieved 2020-11-21.

External links[edit]

• Official website
• youtube-dl at Open Hub

YouTube is one of the product names that will probably never require an introduction. The online video-sharing platform headquarter in California, United States. Created and ran by 3 friends in February 2005 until when it was purchased by Google in 2006, YouTube is among the world’s most visited websites; second only to Google Search.

YouTube is the one-stop-shop for all types of media content including podcasts, music videos, documentaries, movies, series, interviews, news, and cat videos. Seeing how popular it is, one can understand how it inspired the creation of an efficient youtube downloader, youtube-dl. Thanks to this fact, we can happily introduce today’s app to you.

youtube-dl-gui is a free, cross-platform Electron-based GUI for youtube-dl. Don’t know what youtube-dl is? It is an open-source command-line download manager program with which you can download audio and video from YouTube and at least 1000 other video hosting websites.

Although it is a command-line app, youtube-dl has, since January 2020, joined the list of the most starred GitHub projects – evidence of its approval rating among Internet video downloaders.

youtube-dl-gui is an open-source application that brings the efficiency of youtube-dl to users who prefer working with graphical interfaces. Before it, we covered two similar apps namely YouTube-DLG and MPS-YouTube. If their features didn’t get you sold on the idea then check out the features packed in youtube-dl-gui.

Features in youtube-dl-gui

• Available on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.
• Free and open-source software. Source code available on GitHub.
• Download audio and video in all available qualities.
• Download private videos.
• Download and extract (mp3) audio.
• Download channels.
• Download playlists.
• Displays estimated download size.
• Lightning-fast download speeds (cache & multiple processes).
• Colour theme customization.

Install youtube-dl-gui on Linux

youtube-dl-gui is available for Linux users as an AppImage. This is good news because all you have to do is open the AppImage on whatever distro you’re running and you’re set! The releases are listed on the software’s GitHub releases page.

Windows users can install youtube-dl-gui using the .exe file, while macOS users can lay their hands on the .dmg file. Irrespective of the distro you’re running, the default download location is your downloads folder. Of course, you’re at liberty to change this setting to fit your needs.

What do you use to download videos online? Are there any suggestions that you will like to make? Feel free to share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.