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
2025.05.22
Release Date
2025-05-22
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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/2025.05.22.

Core changes
- cookies: Fix Linux desktop environment detection (#13197) by mbway
- jsinterp: Fix increment/decrement evaluation (#13238) by bashonly, seproDev
Extractor changes
- 1tv: Fix extractor (#13168) by bashonly
- amcnetworks: Fix extractor (#13147) by bashonly
- bitchute: Fix extractor (#13081) by bashonly
- cartoonnetwork: Remove extractor (#13148) by bashonly
- iprima: Fix login support (#12937) by baierjan
- jiosaavn
- artist: Add extractor (#12803) by subrat-lima
- playlist, show: Add extractor (#12803) by subrat-lima
- show: Add extractor (#12803) by subrat-lima
- lrtradio: Fix extractor (#13200) by Pawka
- nebula: Support
--mark-watched
(#13120) by GeoffreyFrogeye - niconico
- Fix error handling (#13236) by bashonly
- live: Fix extractor (#13045) by doe1080
- nytimesarticle: Fix extraction (#13104) by bashonly
- once: Remove extractor (#13164) by bashonly
- picarto: vod: Support
/profile/
video URLs (#13227) by subrat-lima - playsuisse: Improve metadata extraction (#12466) by v3DJG6GL
- sprout: Remove extractor (#13149) by bashonly
- svtpage: Fix extractor (#12957) by diman8
- twitch: Support
--live-from-start
(#13202) by bashonly - vimeo: event: Add extractor (#13216) by bashonly
- wat.tv: Improve error handling (#13111) by bashonly
- weverse: Fix live extraction (#13084) by bashonly
- xinpianchang: Fix extractor (#13245) by garret1317
- youtube
- Add PO token support for subtitles (#13234) by bashonly, coletdjnz
- Add
web_embedded
client for age-restricted videos (#13089) by bashonly - Add a PO Token Provider Framework (#12840) by coletdjnz
- Extract
media_type
for all videos (#13136) by bashonly - Fix
--live-from-start
support for premieres (#13079) by arabcoders - Fix geo-restriction error handling (#13217) by yozel