youtube-dl Is Not Gone

This headline had me really worried.

https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-takes-down-popular-open-source-youtube-dl-software-201024/

However, youtube-dl is not gone. It's only gone from GitHub, which all right-thinking projects have already left, anyway. (Check out https://codeberg.org/).

We can install youtube-dl now the way we always have.

sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

As someone pointed out to me a while back, you can also install it in distros where ~/bin is in PATH like this.

curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o ~/bin/youtube-dl
chmod 755 ~/bin/youtube-dl

This allows you to update youtube-dl without using sudo. We update youtube-dl with youtube-dl -U. It's necessary to update youtube-dl often.

See https://yt-dl.org/ for more info about youtube-dl.

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