Can you use youtube-dl on Windows?

Can you use youtube-dl on Windows?

youtube-dl 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.

How do I install the latest version of youtube-dl?

How do I update youtube-dl? If you’ve followed our manual installation instructions, you can simply run youtube-dl -U (or, on Linux, sudo youtube-dl -U ). If you have used pip, a simple sudo pip install -U youtube-dl is sufficient to update.

How do I install youtube-dl and ffmpeg?

Windows

  1. Make a directory on your desktop or anywhere you like. Get a copy of youtube-dl.exe and copy the file in to your directory.
  2. Create new text file and rename to download.
  3. Get a copy of FFmpeg latest build for your windows architecture.
  4. Step 4 (Optional)
  5. By now your directory should look something like.

How do I add a youtube-dl to Windows Reddit?

  1. Extract it to C:\Program Files (x86)\
  2. Rename the directory which FFMPEG extracted to, as ‘Utils’ (It will contain two subs ‘bin’ and ‘doc’ (we only care about bin)
  3. Copy/move youtube-dl.exe into the ‘Utils\bin’ folder.
  4. Rename youtube-dl.exe to ‘yt.exe’ ren youtube-dl.exe yt.exe.
  5. add that dir to your windows path:

How do I use YouTube-dl on Windows 10?

Run Youtube-DL from the Install Directory Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder you downloaded Youtube-DL to. Click on the address bar in Windows Explorer and type cmd to open Command Prompt in the current folder. Now you can simply use youtube-dl to run the program.

How do I install youtube-dl on Windows 11?

Go to the releases page of the Youtube-DL Github repository. Scroll down until you find the list of assets, click on the file called “youtube-dl.exe” to begin downloading Youtube-DL. You can download the file to any location except for System32.

How do I install FFmpeg on Windows?

Installing FFmpeg on windows:

  1. Step 1: Click here to download the zip file of the latest version. ( As of September 2021, version 4.4 is the latest)
  2. Step 2: Unzip this file by using any file archiver such as Winrar or 7z.
  3. Step 3: Rename the extracted folder to ffmpeg and move it into the root of C: drive.

Is there a GUI for YouTube-dl?

youtube-dlG is the gui version of the youtube-dl command-line utility but with a reduced number of options and features. The most important thing is that you can use the graphical version to download multiple videos at the same time, choose the quality of the video you want to download and convert the video to audio.

How do I install ffmpeg on Windows 10 64 bit?

Where is ffmpeg installed Windows?

Where is the program located after installing FFmpeg on Windows? You should find it in: c:\ffmpeg\bin\. I keep getting a message in Command Prompt that says “‘ffmpeg’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.” None of these solutions are working.