download link produces strangely deflated file

[doj]

I tried to download the current version of youtube-dl from http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.05.14/youtube-dl

however the file I retrieve now looks like:

!/usr/bin/env python

PK^C^D^T^@^@^@^H^@§H­B.u¡<98>¶+^@^@n«^@^@^^@^^@youtube_dl/FileDownloader.pyUT
.....

I guess somehow the web server is confused by downloading the python file unmodified?

[phihag]

That's completely fine. Since youtube-dl consists of many Python files, we pack all of these into one single zip file. Just execute this file, either directly with

chmod a+x ./youtube-dl
./youtube-dl

or

python youtube-dl

Note that youtube-dl (and the execution of zip files) requires Python 2.6, 2.7, or 3.3+.

If you are interested in looking into the source code, either check out this repository (with git clone git@github.com:rg3/youtube-dl.git) or remove the first 22 bytes and unpack it with an unzipper of your choice.