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yt-dlp-2026.08.19

CLI program to download videos from YouTube and other sites

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Description

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork: small command-line program for downloading videos from YouTube.com and many other sites. To list all supported extractors and the URLs they can handle, use: $ yt-dlp --list-extractors To retrieve RTMP streams, install the rtmpdump package.

Package information

Ports path
www/yt-dlp
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
www, lang/python
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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