| Port details |
- yt-dlp Command-line program for downloading videos from various platforms
- 2025.10.22 www
=22 2025.09.26Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: yuri@FreeBSD.org
 - Port Added: 2021-02-08 01:47:29
- Last Update: 2025-10-30 08:17:32
- Commit Hash: d4f2239
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- License: UNLICENSE
- WWW:
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
- Description:
- A command-line program to download videos from youtube.com and many other video
platforms.
This is a fork of youtube-dlc which is inturn a fork of youtube-dl.
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- Manual pages:
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- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
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- Conflicts:
- CONFLICTS:
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/www/yt-dlp/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install www/yt-dlp
- pkg install yt-dlp
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: yt-dlp
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1761812103
SHA256 (yt-dlp/2025.10.22/yt-dlp.tar.gz) = 8ed2971172cbe1295258341e9f04527a7f27578538ce70ef4c9ebaba8966a969
SIZE (yt-dlp/2025.10.22/yt-dlp.tar.gz) = 6025669
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
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- py311-brotli>0 : archivers/py-brotli@py311
- py311-certifi>0 : security/py-certifi@py311
- py311-mutagen>0 : audio/py-mutagen@py311
- py311-pycryptodomex>0 : security/py-pycryptodomex@py311
- py311-requests>=2.32.2 : www/py-requests@py311
- py311-sqlite3>0 : databases/py-sqlite3@py311
- py311-urllib3>=2.0.2 : net/py-urllib3@py311
- py311-websockets>=13.0 : devel/py-websockets@py311
- gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Test dependencies:
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- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Runtime dependencies:
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- py311-brotli>0 : archivers/py-brotli@py311
- py311-certifi>0 : security/py-certifi@py311
- py311-mutagen>0 : audio/py-mutagen@py311
- py311-pycryptodomex>0 : security/py-pycryptodomex@py311
- py311-requests>=2.32.2 : www/py-requests@py311
- py311-sqlite3>0 : databases/py-sqlite3@py311
- py311-urllib3>=2.0.2 : net/py-urllib3@py311
- py311-websockets>=13.0 : devel/py-websockets@py311
- ffprobe : multimedia/ffmpeg
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- This port is required by:
- for Build
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- www/py-pafy
- for Run
-
- multimedia/gpodder
- multimedia/gtk-pipe-viewer
- multimedia/haruna
- multimedia/lives
- multimedia/mpv
- multimedia/pipe-viewer
- multimedia/py-tartube
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Deleted ports which required this port:
- * - deleted ports are only shown under the This port is required by section. It was harder to do for the Required section. Perhaps later...
Configuration Options:
- ===> The following configuration options are available for yt-dlp-2025.10.22:
FFMPEG=on: FFmpeg support (WMA, AIFF, AC3, APE...)
SECRETSTORAGE=off: Build with py311-SecretStorage for secretstorage option
SYMLINK=on: Install youtube-dl symbolic link for executable
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- www_yt-dlp
- USES:
- gmake python shebangfix
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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| Port Moves |
- port moved here from www/ytdl on 2025-03-24
REASON: ytdl doesn't work and is archived upstream, www/yt-dlp be used instead
- port moved here from www/youtube_dl on 2024-04-01
REASON: Has expired: Many extractors are brokena and upstream can't keep up, consider using www/yt-dlp
- port moved here from www/get_flash_videos on 2024-04-01
REASON: Has expired: Abandonware, consider using www/yt-dlp
- port moved here from www/youtube_dlc on 2021-04-12
REASON: Upstream have made a complete transition to new project name
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
2021.02.04 08 Feb 2021 01:46:51
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yuri  |
New port: www/yt-dlp: Command-line program to download videos from youtube &
other platforms |
Number of commits found: 101 (showing only 1 on this page)
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