youtube-dl sources

The youtube-dl GitHub repository was unceremoniously taken down.

I am posting a bunch of mirrors, torrents etc. so the source remains available (in case the other mirrors get taken down...)

I have no affiliation or contact with the devs. If a new repo comes back up then I'll link to it here. Otherwise this page serves as means of making the repo publicly available until something happens.

Discussions: Hacker News, /r/technology, /r/programming, /r/linux, /r/youtubedl, /r/DataHoarder, EFF Tweet, a bunch of other places

youtube-dlc

youtube-dlc is a fork of youtube-dl. As of 2020-10-24, the maintainer of youtube-dlc has a new GitHub repo with particular code removed.

Mirror

youtube-dl

git clone https://youtube-dl-sources.org/git/youtube-dl.git

youtube-dlc

git clone https://youtube-dl-sources.org/git/youtube-dlc.git

Alternative mirrors

https://source.netsyms.com/Mirrors/youtube-dl
https://git.osuv.de/star/youtube-dl.git
https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader
https://gitea.caret.be/jens/youtube-dl (only contains the main branch)
Torrent; infohash 062ac712832883089bcedd4f93c9ebb8903fe5e1
IPFS Mirror (ipfs get -o youtube-dl QmRiK1mVeQPdgob9oiNBY4fWVdTDiXnp6BSi5YT4ugTms9)
https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl @ commit 48c5663c5 - another mirror of youtube-dl, slightly out of date
~~Torrent @ commit 48c5663c5; infohash 4be973df1854294bd7793379e1e3ef19937e8f0b~~... slightly out of date, more up to date torrent above
~~IPFS Mirror @ commit 48c5663c5 (ipfs get -o youtube-dl QmbkC1ZL4CP61LxTPWC1Gvxo1F8DoZ5bBYGMwPhyeUNjrs)~~... slightly out of date, more up to date CID above

Verify

Centralised mirrors verified by me at time of download. Otherwise I can't guarantee their authenticity at any given point in time. I generated the torrent and IPFS content in case they are useful to people.

The following can be checked to verify the commit IDs


$ git log --oneline -3 416da574e

416da574e (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) [ytsearch] Fix extraction (closes #26920)

48c5663c5 [afreecatv] Fix typo (#26970)

7d740e7dc [23video] Relax _VALID_URL (#26870)

Updates

2020-10-24 - added read-only Git repository
2020-10-23 - added link to gitee which has a slightly later commit ID 416da574e
2020-10-23 - created site

Contact

Email: andrew at thisdomain dot org

I will possibly ignore your email unless you have some way of verifying yourself (GPG signed would be a start). I may take suggestions and alternative mirror links.

I am not affiliated with the youtube-dl devs.