diff --git a/classes/VideoDownload.php b/classes/VideoDownload.php
index 06a7f48..ea0ca2c 100644
--- a/classes/VideoDownload.php
+++ b/classes/VideoDownload.php
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
  * */
 namespace Alltube;
 
+use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;
+
 /**
  * Main class
  *
@@ -37,11 +39,9 @@ class VideoDownload
             $config->python.' '.escapeshellarg($config->youtubedl).
                 ' '.$config->params
         );
-        exec(
-            $cmd.' --dump-user-agent',
-            $version
-        );
-        return $version[0];
+        $process = new Process($cmd.' --dump-user-agent');
+        $process->run();
+        return trim($process->getOutput());
     }
 
     /**
@@ -56,11 +56,9 @@ class VideoDownload
             $config->python.' '.escapeshellarg($config->youtubedl).
                 ' '.$config->params
         );
-        exec(
-            $cmd.' --list-extractors',
-            $extractors
-        );
-        return $extractors;
+        $process = new Process($cmd.' --list-extractors');
+        $process->run();
+        return explode(PHP_EOL, $process->getOutput());
     }
 
     /**
@@ -82,11 +80,9 @@ class VideoDownload
             $cmd .= ' -f '.escapeshellarg($format);
         }
         $cmd .=' --get-filename '.escapeshellarg($url)." 2>&1";
-        exec(
-            $cmd,
-            $filename
-        );
-        return end($filename);
+        $process = new Process($cmd);
+        $process->run();
+        return trim($process->getOutput());
     }
 
     /**
@@ -108,15 +104,12 @@ class VideoDownload
             $cmd .= ' -f '.escapeshellarg($format);
         }
         $cmd .=' --dump-json '.escapeshellarg($url)." 2>&1";
-        exec(
-            $cmd,
-            $result,
-            $code
-        );
-        if ($code>0) {
-            throw new \Exception(implode(PHP_EOL, $result));
+        $process = new Process($cmd);
+        $process->run();
+        if (!$process->isSuccessful()) {
+            throw new \Exception($process->getOutput());
         } else {
-            return json_decode($result[0]);
+            return json_decode($process->getOutput());
         }
     }
 
@@ -139,15 +132,12 @@ class VideoDownload
             $cmd .= ' -f '.escapeshellarg($format);
         }
         $cmd .=' -g '.escapeshellarg($url)." 2>&1";
-        exec(
-            $cmd,
-            $result,
-            $code
-        );
-        if ($code>0) {
-            throw new \Exception(implode(PHP_EOL, $result));
+        $process = new Process($cmd);
+        $process->run();
+        if (!$process->isSuccessful()) {
+            throw new \Exception($process->getOutput());
         } else {
-            return array('success'=>true, 'url'=>end($result));
+            return array('success'=>true, 'url'=>$process->getOutput());
         }
 
     }
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 3f7b532..467bbcb 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 		"slim/slim": "~3.3.0",
 		"mathmarques/smarty-view": "~1.0.0",
 		"symfony/yaml": "~3.0.0",
+		"symfony/process": "~3.0.0",
 		"ffmpeg/ffmpeg": "~2.8.2"
 	},
 	"require-dev": {
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index d14f670..8a1065b 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "hash": "22d65db5d1fd37d20bc4b2ad6736ab4a",
-    "content-hash": "bbf51588b3930e62a675a947d23aa6b0",
+    "hash": "5ba1de7cdc94a679d3cbea5aa73db0d5",
+    "content-hash": "f2b2cf7d6170452e2cfc4dfde5fd6b5f",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "container-interop/container-interop",
@@ -367,6 +367,55 @@
             ],
             "time": "2015-12-21 01:57:06"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "symfony/process",
+            "version": "v3.0.4",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/symfony/process.git",
+                "reference": "e6f1f98bbd355d209a992bfff45e7edfbd4a0776"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/symfony/process/zipball/e6f1f98bbd355d209a992bfff45e7edfbd4a0776",
+                "reference": "e6f1f98bbd355d209a992bfff45e7edfbd4a0776",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.5.9"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "3.0-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Symfony\\Component\\Process\\": ""
+                },
+                "exclude-from-classmap": [
+                    "/Tests/"
+                ]
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Fabien Potencier",
+                    "email": "fabien@symfony.com"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Symfony Community",
+                    "homepage": "https://symfony.com/contributors"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Symfony Process Component",
+            "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
+            "time": "2016-03-30 10:41:14"
+        },
         {
             "name": "symfony/yaml",
             "version": "v3.0.4",