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
2025.09.23
Release Date
2025-09-23
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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/2025.09.23.
Important changes
- Several options have been deprecated
In order to simplify the codebase and reduce maintenance burden, various options have been deprecated. Please remove them from your commands/configurations. Read more
Core changes
- compat: Add
compat_datetime_from_timestamp(#11902) by pzhlkj6612, seproDev - utils
mimetype2ext: Recognizevnd.dlna.mpeg-tts(#14388) by seproDevrandom_user_agent: Bump versions (#14317) by seproDev
Extractor changes
- 10play: Fix extractor (#14242) by Sipherdrakon
- applepodcast: Fix extractor (#14372) by seproDev
- loco: Fix extractor (#14256) by seproDev
- mitele: Remove extractor (#14348) by bashonly
- newspicks: Warn when only preview is available (#14197) by doe1080
- onsen: Add extractor (#10971) by doe1080
- pixivsketch: Remove extractors (#14196) by doe1080
- smotrim: Rework extractors (#14200) by doe1080, swayll
- telecinco: Support browser impersonation (#14351) by bashonly
- tiktok: live: Fix room ID extraction (#14287) by bashonly
- ttinglive: Adapt FlexTV extractor to new domain (#14375) by seproDev
- tunein: Fix extractors (#13981) by doe1080
- twitch: clips: Fix extractor (#14397) by seproDev
- vimeo: Fix login error handling (#14280) by bashonly
- vk
- Support vksport URLs (#14341) by seproDev
- uservideos: Support alternate URL format (#14376) by seproDev
- xhamster: Fix extractor (#14286) by nicolaasjan, willsmillie (With fixes in 677997d by arand, thegymguy)
- youtube: Force player
0004de42(#14398) by seproDev
Misc. changes
- build
- ci
- cleanup
- Bump ruff to 0.13.x (#14293) by bashonly
- Deprecate various options (#13821) by seproDev
- Remove broken extractors (#14305) by bashonly
- Remove setup.cfg (#14314) by seproDev (With fixes in 8ab262c by bashonly)
- Miscellaneous: 2e81e29 by bashonly, doe1080, seproDev
- docs
- test: utils: Fix
sanitize_pathtest for Windows CPython 3.11 (#13878) by Grub4K