To install ffmpeg, I recommend downloading the Windows build from here (select the correct Windows architecture of your system andĪlways static linking - the version doesn’t matter). Just put it in your path and you should be good to go. May go on and directly download a youtube-dl windows executable. That if you install youtube-dl in a virtualenv, after you activate that virtualenv you’ll be able to run it just by typing youtube-dl.įinally, If for some reason you don’t want want to mess with python and all this (or it just seems greek to you) then you However I prefer to install it on the global packages to be really easy for me to call it from a command prompt I open. If you wanted you could also create a virtual environment (see instructions on previously mentioned article) and install youtube-dl locally there using pip install youtube-dl You use youtube-dl always try updating first. So if for some reason something is not correct when Notice that you must frequently upgrade your youtube-dl installation because sometimes youtube changes the requirementsįor viewing / downloading videos and your old version will not work. To upgrade your youtube-dl installation you should do something like this: Some hints later about how to improve this. For example try something like this py -3 -m youtube_dl YgtL4S7Hrwo and you’llīe rewarded with the 2016 Pycon talk from Guido van Rossum! If you find this a little too much too type don’t be afraid, I will give To run youtube-dl you’ll write something like py -3 -m youtube_dl url_or_video_id (notice the underscore instead of dash sinceĭashes are not supported in module names in python). Following the instructions from there, you can do the following to install youtube-dl in your global

To see how you should install and use Python 2 or 3 To install youtube-dl I recommend installing it in your global python (2 or 3) package list using pip.

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