Download page should make use of a link without version, but with 'latest' tag instead.

[deragon]

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html hard codes the latest version in the command to download it.

sudo curl https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2015.01.10.2/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

When I install a new Linux machine, I would like to run a script that downloads the latest. Therefore, I would like to be able to run:

sudo curl https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Notice the verrsion replaced by 'latest'.

[jaimeMF]

You can actually use it curl 'https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl' -L -o /path/to/youtube-dl

[phihag]

As @jaimeMF said, your suggestion is implemented already! There's also the shorter https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl if you want.

Note that there is a reason why the download page hardcodes the version number. If it were dynamic, the checksums published there would not match the actual files during the release of a new version.