On October 23, 2020, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) issued a takedown notice to GitHub under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), requesting the removal of youtube-dl and 17 public forks of the project. It was included in Ubuntu as of the 22.04 release. By the end of 2021, the effort was continuing as yt-dlp. In 2021, some community members released a fork of youtube-dl, named youtube-dlc (for 'community).

In 2021, dstftw stepped down and was replaced by dirkf. Ricardo Garcia stepped down as maintainer in 2011 and was replaced by Philipp Hagemeister, who later stepped down and was replaced by dstftw. Initially, only YouTube was supported, but as the project grew, it began supporting other video sharing websites. Youtube-dl was created in 2006 by Ricardo Garcia. According to libraries.io, 308 other packages and 1.43k repositories depend on it. Īs of September 2021, youtube-dl is one of the most starred projects on GitHub, with over 100,000 stars. It is released under the Unlicense software license.

Youtube-dl is a free and open source download manager for video and audio from YouTube and over 1,000 other video hosting websites.

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