diff --git a/Formula/youtube-dl.rb b/Formula/youtube-dl.rb
index 0d8a371398..b0c54bb9fe 100644
--- a/Formula/youtube-dl.rb
+++ b/Formula/youtube-dl.rb
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 class YoutubeDl < Formula
   desc "Download YouTube videos from the command-line"
   homepage "https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/"
-  url "https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/releases/download/2016.08.28/youtube-dl-2016.08.28.tar.gz"
-  sha256 "520d913129ef03fb62c3f1a430db257c962da61b534caccbdd3a0b01e7a96487"
+  url "https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/releases/download/2016.08.31/youtube-dl-2016.08.31.tar.gz"
+  sha256 "ca4b7bf3d7f9c5289ea2f53af3a68f201447ce4298337ee60826ee230e00313f"
 
   bottle do
     cellar :any_skip_relocation