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yt-dlp

v2026.8.19Verified publisher

Extracts metadata from videos and channels on YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram and 1,000+ other sites

Community-packaged from github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp: the registry's community pins the upstream release; the tool is its authors' work. Maintain that project? Claim this package.

Run

Through ot mcp, an agent calls run_tool with this; ot asks you before anything that goes online or touches a target. Set it up: ot mcp install claude (or cursor, vscode, codex, gemini).

{"tool":"osintverse-community/yt-dlp","target":"https://archive.org/details/Popeye_forPresident","input_type":"url"}

Or just say: "Run osintverse-community/yt-dlp on https://archive.org/details/Popeye_forPresident with OTInstaller." The registry's read-only MCP server at api.otinstaller.com/mcp can find tools without installing anything.

ot run osintverse-community/yt-dlp url:https://archive.org/details/Popeye_forPresident --format table
ot install osintverse-community/yt-dlp

Python wheel, run in a read-only container (Docker optional with --native) · network allowed · no key · up to 10 min. The first ot run installs the tool after asking once. The example value is the registry's own test input, so this command has run. Drop --format table for JSON.

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What this script does
  1. Downloads the latest ot release for your machine from GitHub Releases.
  2. Checks its SHA-256 against checksums.txt, and the Ed25519 signature on that file against the key built into the script.
  3. Puts ot in /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin. Nothing else is written. Read the script.
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What this script does
  1. Downloads the latest ot release for your machine from GitHub Releases.
  2. Checks its SHA-256 against checksums.txt, and the Ed25519 signature on that file against the key built into the script.
  3. Puts ot in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\ot, and adds it to your PATH. Nothing else is written. Read the script.

Evidence

Security tab →
  • Pinnedwheel sha256:1d57897e…24eedf from PyPI. ot re-hashes the file after download and refuses a mismatch.
  • Signedby pypi:GitHub:yt-dlp/yt-dlp/release.yml via pypi.org, verified by the registry on 20 Oct 2026. ot checks the same identity before every install and refuses another signer.
  • Scanned20 Oct 2026: 0 critical, 0 high, 5 medium, 1 low vulnerabilities; 0 embedded secrets, 0 malware heuristics; SBOM with 2 packages.
  • Workssmoke test passed on 20 Oct 2026 (exit 0 in 7.1 s, offline sandbox); the nightly health check passed (today).
  • Backed upa copy of this wheel is kept by the registry. If PyPI removes it, ot downloads the copy and checks the same hash.
  • Reviewedosintverse-community is a verified publisher: the registry confirmed who runs it, and a person reviewed its first release against the acceptable-use rules.

What you get back

Result envelope →
{
  "envelope": 1,
  "tool": "osintverse-community/yt-dlp@2026.8.19",
  "runtime": "pipx",
  "input": {
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/Popeye_forPresident"
  },
  "started_at": "2026-10-21T09:00:00Z",
  "duration_ms": 4100,
  "exit_code": 0,
  "entities": [
    {
      "type": "url",
      "value": "https://example.com/page"
    },
    {
      "type": "account",
      "value": "github.com/jane_doe",
      "attrs": {
        "site": "github.com"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "other",
      "value": "…"
    }
  ],
  "warnings": []
}

Every tool returns this shape, shaped here from what this tool declares it finds. --format table to read it; ot extract and ot auto to continue.

yt-dlp (community package)

This repository packages github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp for the OTInstaller Registry as osintverse-community/yt-dlp. The tool is the work of its authors, under the Unlicense license; this repository only holds the manifest and release workflow.

Report problems with the tool upstream, and problems with the packaging here. If you maintain the upstream project and want to publish it yourself, open an issue or run ot claim osintverse-community/yt-dlp: the package is transferred to you.

It installs the upstream project's own release from PyPI, pinned by version and hash; nothing here is rebuilt.

ot run osintverse-community/yt-dlp --url …

Packaged version: 2026.8.19.

Guides using this tool

Social media profiles playbook

Collect and preserve what a public profile shows: posts, media metadata and archived copies

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