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'''youtube-dl''' is a [[Free and open-source software|free and open source]] software tool for [[Download|downloading]] video and audio from [[YouTube]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Debian -- Details of package youtube-dl in sid|url=https://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl|access-date=2020-10-24|website=packages.debian.org|archive-date=2020-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027015452/https://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl|url-status=live}}</ref> and over 1,000 other video hosting websites.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html|title=Supported sites|publisher=youtube-dl's [[GitHub Pages]] site|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> It is released under the [[Unlicense]] [[software license]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Unlicense|url=https://unlicense.org/#unlicensed-free-software|access-date=2020-11-17|website=Unlicense.org}}</ref>

As of September 2021, youtube-dl is one of the most starred projects on [[GitHub]], with over 100,000 stars.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web|last=Cimpanu|first=Catalin|title=RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/riaa-blitz-takes-down-18-github-projects-used-for-downloading-youtube-videos/|access-date=2020-10-24|website=ZDNet|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024000819/https://www.zdnet.com/article/riaa-blitz-takes-down-18-github-projects-used-for-downloading-youtube-videos/|url-status=live}}</ref> According to libraries.io, 308 other packages and 1.43k repositories depend on it.<ref>{{Cite news|title=youtube_dl on Pypi|url=https://libraries.io/pypi/youtube_dl|access-date=2020-10-24|website=Libraries.io|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023195052/https://libraries.io/pypi/youtube_dl|url-status=live}}</ref> Numerous [[fork (software development)|fork]]s exist of the project exist.

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