yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites. The project is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc.
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Version
2025.08.20
Release Date
2025-08-20
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Windows 64 bit
Alternative Download – Windows 64 bit
For additional platforms, please visit https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2025.08.20.

Core changes
- Warn against using
-f mp4
(#13915) by seproDev - utils: Add improved
jwt_encode
function (#14071) by bashonly
Extractor changes
- Extract avif storyboard formats from MPD manifests (#14016) by doe1080
_rta_search
: Do not assumeage_limit
is0
(#13985) by doe1080- adobetv: Fix extractor (#13917) by doe1080
- bilibili: Handle Bangumi redirection (#14038) by grqz, junyilou
- faulio: Add extractor (#13907) by CasperMcFadden95
- francetv: site: Fix extractor (#14082) by bashonly
- medialaan: Rework extractors (#14015) by doe1080
- mtv: Overhaul extractors (#14052) by bashonly, doe1080, Randalix, seproDev
- niconico: live: Support age-restricted streams (#13549) by doe1080
- nrktvepisode: Fix extractor (#14065) by runarmod
- puhutv: Fix playlists extraction (#11955) by e2dk4r
- steam: Fix extractor (#14008) by AzartX47
- svt: Extract forced subs under separate lang code (#14062) by PierreMesure
- tiktok: user: Avoid infinite loop during extraction (#14032) by bashonly (With fixes in 471a2b6)
- vimeo
- album: Support embed-only and non-numeric albums (#14021) by bashonly
- event: Fix extractor (#14064) by bashonly
- youtube
- Add
es5
andes6
player JS variants (#14005) by bashonly - Add
playback_wait
extractor-arg by bashonly - Default to
main
player JS variant (#14079) by bashonly - Extract title and description from initial data (#14078) by bashonly
- Handle required preroll waiting period (#14081) by bashonly
- Remove default player params (#14081) by bashonly
- tab: Fix playlists tab extraction (#14030) by bashonly
- Add
Downloader changes
Postprocessor changes
- xattrmetadata: Only set “Where From” attribute on macOS (#13999) by bashonly
Misc. changes
- build
- cleanup
- Remove dead extractors (#13996) by doe1080
- Miscellaneous: c2fc4f3 by bashonly