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yt-dlp mit Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop, winget installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für yt-dlp in AI-Agent-Workflows.

Installationsbefehl Sicherheitshinweise

Agent-Sicherheit

Antwort zur Agent-Sicherheit

yt-dlp downloads media and can read cookies or credentials for authenticated sources.

Credential-Zugriff

Reads browser cookies, netrc credentials, config files, and output paths.

Änderungen an Remote-Zustand

Mostly downloads, but may access authenticated services.

Publish-/Artefakt-Risiko

Can create large media artifacts and expose private media locally.

Empfohlene Kontrolle

Gate cookie reads, authenticated downloads, and broad output paths.

Hinweise für Agent-Nutzung

Allow public metadata queries; require approval for cookie use and private downloads.

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install yt-dlp

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%

sudo apk add yt-dlp

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · yt-dlp · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install yt-dlp

Debian stable package indexes · yt-dlp · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install yt-dlp

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · yt-dlp · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#yt-dlp

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/yt/yt-dlp/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%

sudo pacman -S yt-dlp

Arch Linux sync databases · yt-dlp · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%

sudo zypper install yt-dlp

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · yt-dlp · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Chocolateyverifiziert · 92%

choco install yt-dlp

Chocolatey community package catalog · yt-dlp · Quelle: community.chocolatey.org

Scoopverifiziert · 92%

scoop install main/yt-dlp

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/yt-dlp.json · Quelle: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverifiziert · 92%

winget install --id yt-dlp.yt-dlp -e

Windows Package Manager source index · yt-dlp.yt-dlp · Quelle: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

yt-dlp

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

yt-dlp is the dominant modern fork in the youtube-dl family: a fast-moving command-line downloader for video and audio sites, with package significance far beyond “download a video” because archivists, researchers, automation scripts, and media workflows depend on its extractor maintenance.

Projektgeschichte

The project’s README states the lineage directly: yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. That lineage matters because youtube-dl began in 2006 and became the archetypal site-extractor CLI, but by 2020-2021 community energy had shifted into forks that could merge fixes and features faster.

yt-dlp’s GitHub repository dates to October 2020, during the same period in which youtube-dl was at the center of a high-profile RIAA takedown dispute on GitHub. GitHub restored youtube-dl in November 2020 after EFF involvement, but the episode made the fragility and public importance of downloader infrastructure visible to a much wider software audience.

By 2021, yt-dlp had become the active fork many users recommended. It accumulated behavior and feature differences from youtube-dl: better default format sorting, SponsorBlock integration, download sections, richer metadata and post-processing options, plugin hooks, browser cookie handling, and active extractor fixes.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption was driven by maintenance velocity. Sites change frequently, and a downloader that cannot keep extractors current becomes useless fast; yt-dlp’s rapid release cadence and compatibility with youtube-dl-style invocations made it a natural replacement in scripts and packaged systems.

The adoption path is visible in distributions and institutions. Ubuntu 22.04 included yt-dlp, Debian replaced youtube-dl with a transitional package depending on yt-dlp, and Archive-It documents yt-dlp as the modern fork its crawlers use to collect embedded audio and video during web crawls.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run yt-dlp with one or more URLs to download media, select formats, extract audio, write subtitles and metadata, authenticate through cookies or netrc, post-process with ffmpeg, archive channels, and embed it as a Python library. Its configuration files let heavy users encode site-specific and workflow-specific defaults.

Package users care about the surrounding executable story: releases provide platform-independent Python zipimport binaries, standalone Windows and macOS executables, Linux variants, source tarballs, PyPI packages, and package-manager entries. That breadth lets yt-dlp serve both throwaway shell use and repeatable archival automation.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

yt-dlp is a package-nerd landmark because it turns an adversarial, constantly changing web surface into a normal command. It is also a case study in fork succession: users followed the maintained implementation, not just the original brand name.

It sits at the intersection of packaging, digital preservation, legal controversy, and web reverse engineering. Few CLI packages have such a direct relationship between release freshness and whether the tool works today.

Zeitleiste

2006: Ricardo Garcia creates youtube-dl, the original project lineage.
2020-10-23: The RIAA sends GitHub a takedown request for youtube-dl and forks.
2020-10-26: The yt-dlp GitHub repository is created.
2020-11-16: GitHub restores youtube-dl after reviewing EFF arguments.
2021: yt-dlp emerges publicly as the active youtube-dl/youtube-dlc successor fork.
2022: Ubuntu 22.04 includes yt-dlp; Debian 12 later points youtube-dl users toward yt-dlp.

Related projects

Related projects include youtube-dl, youtube-dlc, ffmpeg, SponsorBlock, PyInstaller, Archive-It, gallery-dl, streamlink, and NewPipe.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Noch keine Protected-Tool-Abdeckung gefunden

Für yt-dlp wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 3 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ~/.yt-dlp.conf~/.config/yt-dlp/config~/.config/yt-dlp.conf

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: ~/.netrc~/.yt-dlp.conf~/.config/yt-dlp/config~/.config/yt-dlp.conf

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`yt-dlp`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-10

Manager-Version2026.7.4

Manager aktualisiert2026-07-06

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

Paketschlüssel	brew:yt-dlp
Version	2026.7.4
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/yt-dlp
Homepage	https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Repository	https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme
Lizenz	Unlicense
Quellarchiv	https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/47/c5/9972af4b472b0d55badf841ebafd2f98944cb0ae0f46e11d01f363ea5b91/yt_dlp-2026.7.4.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-07-06T04:49:29Z
Pulse	updated
Abhängigkeiten	certifi, deno, python@3.14
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	yt-dlp
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