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Tiny tool for pointing to the latest youtube-dl download URL available.

Just query against youtube-dl-binary.vercel.app. Binary is cached every 24 hours.

• for UNIX (Linux/Mac): youtube-dl-binary.vercel.app
• for Windows: youtube-dl-binary.vercel.app?platform=win

first install the module

npm install youtube-dl-binary

Then you can interact with it

const youtubeDlBinary = require('youtube-dl-binary')
const got = require('got')
const fs = require('fs)

;(async () => {
  got.stream(await youtubeDlBinary()).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('youtube-dl'))
})()

youtube-dl-binary © microlink.io, released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Kiko Beats with help from contributors.

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