Download binary from youtube-dl download page

[towerjoo]

Hey:

we have a shell script to download the latest binary(unix). We used to do this by wget https://raw.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/master/youtube-dl and since it's outdated, so we moved to wget http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.06.30/youtube-dl

Questions:

1. is this safe to download from http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.06.30/youtube-dl even when you guys upload a new version?
2. what's the best practice to download the latest one? I guess the url will change later and we need to change our script respectively but we shouldn't, how to do it in a better way?

Thanks.

[phihag]

You can now download the latest version from https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl . I've also added code to make sure that new versions pop up atomically.

Although we currently keep all the old versions and expect to do so for the foreseeable future, we do not guarantee to do so forever.