ATTENTION DO NOT USE THESE: new binaries in the Downloads section

placed fake binaries that update themselves where old versions updating will search for the new version

devscripts/transition_helper.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys, os
+
+try:
+    import urllib.request as compat_urllib_request
+except ImportError: # Python 2
+    import urllib2 as compat_urllib_request
+
+sys.stderr.write(u'Hi! We changed distribution method and now youtube-dl needs to update itself one more time.\n')
+sys.stderr.write(u'This will only happen once. Simply press enter to go on. Sorry for the trouble!\n')
+sys.stderr.write(u'The new location of the binaries is https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/downloads, not the git repository.\n\n')
+
+try:
+	raw_input()
+except NameError: # Python 3
+	input()
+
+filename = sys.argv[0]
+
+API_URL = "https://api.github.com/repos/rg3/youtube-dl/downloads"
+BIN_URL = "https://github.com/downloads/rg3/youtube-dl/youtube-dl"
+
+if not os.access(filename, os.W_OK):
+    sys.exit('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % filename)
+
+try:
+    urlh = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(BIN_URL)
+    newcontent = urlh.read()
+    urlh.close()
+except (IOError, OSError) as err:
+    sys.exit('ERROR: unable to download latest version')
+
+try:
+    with open(filename, 'wb') as outf:
+        outf.write(newcontent)
+except (IOError, OSError) as err:
+    sys.exit('ERROR: unable to overwrite current version')
+
+sys.stderr.write(u'Done! Now you can run youtube-dl.\n')

devscripts/transition_helper_exe/setup.py

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+from distutils.core import setup
+import py2exe
+
+py2exe_options = {
+    "bundle_files": 1,
+    "compressed": 1,
+    "optimize": 2,
+    "dist_dir": '.',
+    "dll_excludes": ['w9xpopen.exe']
+}
+
+setup(console=['youtube-dl.py'], options={ "py2exe": py2exe_options }, zipfile=None)

devscripts/transition_helper_exe/youtube-dl.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys, os
+import urllib2
+
+sys.stderr.write(u'Hi! We changed distribution method and now youtube-dl needs to update itself one more time.\n')
+sys.stderr.write(u'This will only happen once. Simply press enter to go on. Sorry for the trouble!\n')
+sys.stderr.write(u'The new location of the binaries is https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/downloads, not the git repository.\n\n')
+
+raw_input()
+
+filename = sys.argv[0]
+
+API_URL = "https://api.github.com/repos/rg3/youtube-dl/downloads"
+EXE_URL = "https://github.com/downloads/rg3/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.exe"
+
+if not os.access(filename, os.W_OK):
+    sys.exit('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % filename)
+
+exe = os.path.abspath(filename)
+directory = os.path.dirname(exe)
+if not os.access(directory, os.W_OK):
+    sys.exit('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % directory)
+
+try:
+    urlh = urllib2.urlopen(EXE_URL)
+    newcontent = urlh.read()
+    urlh.close()
+    with open(exe + '.new', 'wb') as outf:
+        outf.write(newcontent)
+except (IOError, OSError) as err:
+    sys.exit('ERROR: unable to download latest version')
+
+try:
+    bat = os.path.join(directory, 'youtube-dl-updater.bat')
+    b = open(bat, 'w')
+    b.write("""
+echo Updating youtube-dl...
+ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 -w 1000 > NUL
+move /Y "%s.new" "%s"
+del "%s"
+    \n""" %(exe, exe, bat))
+    b.close()
+
+    os.startfile(bat)
+except (IOError, OSError) as err:
+    sys.exit('ERROR: unable to overwrite current version')
+
+sys.stderr.write(u'Done! Now you can run youtube-dl.\n')