# Youtube-dl - change name to yt-dlp or update Quick start
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/youtube-dl-change-name-to-yt-dlp-or-update-quick-start/25176
**Category:** Requests
**Created:** [1 May 2026 08:46 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/youtube-dl-change-name-to-yt-dlp-or-update-quick-start/25176 "2026-05-01T08:46:38Z")
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### Author:  [@korn](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/korn)
#### Post date: [1 May 2026 08:46 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/youtube-dl-change-name-to-yt-dlp-or-update-quick-start/25176/1 "2026-05-01T08:46:38Z")
After a few hours of unsuccessful attempts to configure **youtube-dl** I realized that [it was replaced with **yt-dlp** in v8.18](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replace-youtube-dl-with-yt-dlp/11727/5), and config files should be named/structured as for **yt-dlp**.
Please, change the name of **youtube-dl** to **yt-dlp** in **[dietpi-software](https://dietpi.com/docs/dietpi_tools/software_installation/#dietpi-software)** menu (what can break someones’ scripts), or specify that config files for youtube-dl from **dietpi-software** should be made as for yt-dlp in _**[Quick start](https://dietpi.com/docs/software/bittorrent/#youtube-dl)**_[for **youtube-dl**](https://dietpi.com/docs/software/bittorrent/#youtube-dl).
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Jappe](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Jappe)
#### Post date: [1 May 2026 20:56 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/youtube-dl-change-name-to-yt-dlp-or-update-quick-start/25176/2 "2026-05-01T20:56:04Z")
PRs are out
[https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/8123](https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/8123)
[https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi-Docs/pull/1200](https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi-Docs/pull/1200)
[https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi-Website/pull/404](https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi-Website/pull/404)
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### Author:  [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [4 May 2026 13:06 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/youtube-dl-change-name-to-yt-dlp-or-update-quick-start/25176/3 "2026-05-04T13:06:45Z")
I had a look into this, and recognized that the original youtube-dl has been re-animated under new maintenance: [https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)
But, it does not look reasonable to revert, as this moreless only exists for people who need legacy Python version support, according to some discussions on that repo. And both projects seem to exchange commits and stuff.
There are two domain [https://youtube-dl.org](https://youtube-dl.org) and [https://yt-dl.org](https://yt-dl.org), but both, even that the latter is the exact name of the original project’s GitHub orga name, redirect to the [yt-dlp GitHub page](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp). Hence I thought that the latter is basically the official successor. But with the old project still active, using a different config file format, it makes sense to rename it our end, and update documentation links etc.
EDIT: All PRs merged, will be live with next DietPi release.
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### Author:  [@system](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/system)
#### Post date: [2 August 2026 13:07 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/youtube-dl-change-name-to-yt-dlp-or-update-quick-start/25176/4 "2026-08-02T13:07:11Z")
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