使用 Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop, winget 安装 yt-dlp

项目链接

• 主页
• 上游文档
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• yt-dlp

项目历史

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.

采用历史

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.

使用方式

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.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

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.

时间线

• 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.

来源

• https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
• https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
• https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki
• https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
• https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/yt-dlp.1.html
• https://support.archive-it.org/hc/en-us/articles/39802123517844-About-yt-dlp-youtube-dl
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-reinstates-youtube-dl-after-riaas-abuse-dmca