About the program

What is it?

youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. The project is currently being developed at GitHub.

Authors

Core team:

Remita Amine: core developer.

Core team (inactive):

Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez: original author, program core.
Philipp Hagemeister: core developer, maintainer 2011-2016.
Filippo Valsorda: core developer, Windows build, testing.
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz: core developer.
Yen Chi Hsuan: core developer.
Naglis Jonaitis: core developer.
pulpe: core developer.
Sergey M.: core developer, maintainer 2016-2021.

Many other people contributing patches, code, ideas and kind messages. Too many to be listed here. You know who you are. Thank you very much.