Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install you-get

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%

sudo apk add you-get

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · you-get · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#you-get

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/yo/you-get/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%

sudo zypper install you-get

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · you-get · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Chocolateyverifiziert · 92%

choco install you-get

Chocolatey community package catalog · you-get · Quelle: community.chocolatey.org

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

you-get

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

you-get is a Python command-line downloader for media and other web resources. Its README calls it a tiny utility for downloading videos, audio, images, and arbitrary non-HTML content when there is no handier way to do it.

Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository was created in August 2012, and PyPI metadata shows early published artifacts from late 2012. The project grew during the era when web video was split across YouTube, Youku/Tudou, Niconico, Vimeo, and many site-specific players, making small scraper-based downloaders a practical necessity.

From the beginning, you-get positioned itself with hacker-culture language: control over one's computer, avoiding closed-source browser technology, and using command-line tools to retrieve web media directly. Its documentation later added notices about contribution policy and Python support, reflecting the maintenance burden of a downloader that must track changing websites.

Adoptionsgeschichte

you-get became especially visible because it covered both global and Chinese media sites. The older PyPI description explicitly named YouTube and Youku/Tudou, while the modern README lists YouTube, Youku, Niconico, and many more supported sites.

The tool also crossed package ecosystems: its README documents pip, source checkout, Zsh Antigen, Homebrew, FreeBSD pkg, and Flox installation paths, while Homebrew and other package managers carry it as a single `you-get` executable. GitHub metadata in July 2026 showed tens of thousands of stars and thousands of forks, unusually high for a small CLI scraper.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `you-get URL` to inspect and download a media item, or `you-get -i URL` to list available streams, formats, quality levels, and sizes. The README also documents streaming online video to a media player, downloading images from pages, and retrieving arbitrary binary files.

Its practical niche overlaps youtube-dl/yt-dlp, but you-get historically appealed to users who wanted a compact Python command with broad site coverage and good support for Chinese video platforms.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

you-get is package-manager folklore for the web-scraping era: tiny executable, huge maintenance surface. Every supported site is a moving target, so the package is less about a stable protocol and more about continuously packaging knowledge of the contemporary web.

It also shows why package managers carry media downloaders despite their fragility: users want a normal installable command, shell completions, and upgrade paths when sites change.

Zeitleiste

2012-08-20: The public soimort/you-get GitHub repository is created.
2012-12: PyPI metadata shows early you-get distributions.
2019: The README points users away from conventional issue reporting toward the project contribution policy.
2022: The README announces eventual dropping of older Python 3.5-3.7 support.
2026-07: GitHub metadata shows very large community visibility for a command-line downloader.

Related projects

youtube-dl and yt-dlp are the major adjacent Python media downloaders.
FFmpeg is a recommended dependency for many media post-processing and stream-merging workflows.
RTMPDump is listed as an optional dependency for legacy RTMP media workflows.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risikoklassifikator

blue Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · tool

Warum

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signale

text:download

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 2 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`you-get`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-07-26

Manager-Version0.4.1743

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://you-get.org/

InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://you-get.org/none Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:you-get
Version	0.4.1743
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/you-get
Homepage	https://you-get.org/
Repository	https://github.com/soimort/you-get
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://github.com/soimort/you-get#readme
Lizenz	MIT
Quellarchiv	https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2d/85/f4a22b842bc0e0f57dc56ae54266dbc451547cee90bae9480131100ad92a/you_get-0.4.1743.tar.gz
Abhängigkeiten	python@3.14, rtmpdump
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert
Einschränkungen	To use post-processing options, run `brew install ffmpeg` or `brew install libav`.

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	you-get
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

you-get

nix profile install nixpkgs#you-get

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: You Get

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/yo/you-get/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

apk95%

you-get 0.4.1650-r4

Tiny command line utility to download media contents

https://you-get.org

sudo apk add you-get

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: you-get
1 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: You Get

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: you-get from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

you-get-bash-completion 0.4.1650-r4

Bash completions for you-get

https://you-get.org

sudo apk add you-get-bash-completion

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: you-get
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: You Get

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: you-get-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

you-get-fish-completion 0.4.1650-r4

Fish completions for you-get

https://you-get.org

sudo apk add you-get-fish-completion

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: you-get
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: You Get

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: you-get-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

you-get-pyc 0.4.1650-r4

Precompiled Python bytecode for you-get

https://you-get.org

sudo apk add you-get-pyc

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: you-get
1 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: You Get

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: you-get-pyc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

you-get-zsh-completion 0.4.1650-r4

Zsh completions for you-get

https://you-get.org

sudo apk add you-get-zsh-completion

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: you-get
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: You Get

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: you-get-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

zypper95%

you-get 0.4.1743-1.5

Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

https://you-get.org

sudo zypper install you-get

License: MIT
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: noarch
Source Package: you-get
4 Abhängigkeiten
3 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: You Get

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: you-get from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

zypper95%

you-get-bash-completion 0.4.1743-1.5

Bash completion for you-get

https://you-get.org

sudo zypper install you-get-bash-completion

License: MIT
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: noarch
Source Package: you-get
1 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: You Get

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: you-get-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

zypper95%

you-get-fish-completion 0.4.1743-1.5

Fish completion for you-get

https://you-get.org

sudo zypper install you-get-fish-completion

License: MIT
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: noarch
Source Package: you-get
1 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: You Get

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: you-get-fish-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

zypper95%

you-get-zsh-completion 0.4.1743-1.5

Zsh Completion for you-get

https://you-get.org

sudo zypper install you-get-zsh-completion

License: MIT
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: noarch
Source Package: you-get
1 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: You Get

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: you-get-zsh-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

Chocolatey95%

you-get

choco install you-get

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: You Get

Chocolatey community package catalog · community.chocolatey.org · Chocolatey community package catalog: you-get from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='7.756','razer-synapse-3'

Paketgraph

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Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/you-get.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

you-get mit Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, Nix, zypper installieren

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Linux

Windows

Paketzusammenfassung

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Projektgeschichte

Adoptionsgeschichte

Wie es verwendet wird

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Zeitleiste

Related projects

Quellen

Risikostufe: blue

Risikoklassifikator

Warum

Signale

Installationsverhalten

Empfohlene Prüfung

Installierte Executables

Version und Aktualität

Paketmetadaten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Interne Paketlinks

Themen-Hubs

Verwandte Tools

Gleicher Workflow

Agent-Sicherheitsleitfäden

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Combined YAML source

Verwendete Quellen