A yt-dlp Guide - Instructions for Windows
- Download > yt-dlp
- Download > ffmpeg
- Create a folder somewhere easily accessible, you will navigate to this folder each time you want to use yt-dlp
- Put the 2 downloaded files in that folder
- Open "
ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl.zip" and extract "ffmpeg.exe" and "ffprobe.exe" into your chosen folder (they are in the "bin" folder) - You should now have "
yt-dlp.exe", "ffmpeg.exe" and "ffprobe.exe" in your chosen folder
- Open "
- Download a video
- In the address bar of your chosen folder type
cmdand press enter - Then in the terminal window that opens, type "
yt-dlp "URL"" replacing URL with the link u want to download - Wait for your video to finish downloading
- It will download into your chosen folder
- In the address bar of your chosen folder type
- Look at the following visual example if you don't understand something:
- Skim through the documentation yt-dlp#readme to learn about more features
- The following page/guide is also very useful: yt-dlp - Man Page