Hello,

On debian stable, I installed youtube yt-dl to try but it seems that it is not working any longer.

https://duckduckgo.com/?...
https://youtu.be/Hd_Dfu6EG0Y

yt-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_Dfu6EG0Y" (...)

The video cannot be downloaded.

Seems yt-dl outdated, maybe?

Kind regards

it works for me, yt-dlp that is.

yt-dlp is king at the moment because the d/l speeds are faster. Sure it stops working occasionally. I find it best to uninstall it, and install again via pip3 every time. Never fails.

I believe the package name has changed to yt-dlp, as has been mentioned here (and as business_kid points out, you may need to re-install it to get latest version via pip or some other vehicle) - I don't know enough about the underlying project to tell you if that's a fork or what. I believe Invidious is still also developed (but the original, developer-maintained instance has been taken offline (there's loads of third-party instances though)), and depending on the video/content can also download videos (at least at one time it had this feature).

How do you do that?

youtube-dl is not working into debian testing.

But anyhow it seems to be protected.
https://youtu.be/5gga8E43clk

yt-dlp is not working atm, i get it via apt, using Pop!_OS.
ill try to get it from github, if it works then.

EDIT:

nightly works.

you might have to use python3 at that command above.

I found passing 'uninstall' & 'install' to pip in 2 separate runs worked last time. AFAIK, youtube-dl is working, but at a more leisurely pace. So there isn't the same pressure on the guy for updates.

I am unable to install persepolis on a new manjaro install as it is using the old youtube-dl name as a dependency. And they don't have yt-dl in repo. Previously installed persepolis on other older distro is functioning alright so far.

Well, there's ty-dl.org or you could try pip

A bit confusing as the OP first mentions "yt-dl" and then "youtube-dl." Assuming you mean youtube-dl, this is not the same as yt-dlp which is related but is a fork. youtube-dl will work with Python 2 and 3 but yt-dlp works only with Python 3. There was a time when youtube-dl wasn't being maintained anymore. Not sure if that is still the case, but around this time I migrated to yt-dlp.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

I wouldn't hassle with installing it from the distribution. Just get it from github and run 'python3 yt-dlp -U' periodically and that should update it, if there is an update available.

It depends which OS you do use.

The ubuntu with 2022 will be toooooo old.



But the Armbian bookworm, e.g. 2023.03.04 will work very well.


yt-dlp --version
2023.03.04

yt-dlp -F www.youtube....

I simply installed yt-dlp via 'curl' then periodically call > sudo yt-dlp -U to get the latest when needed. Running latest KUbuntu LTS.

Here is a reference to a bunch of different ways of installing and keeping up-to-date... : https://ostechnix.com/yt-dlp-tutorial/

do you have maybe a bash script for me? kind regards
thank you

Being lazy, I installed via pip3. Unfortunately, that lacks an 'update' option, so it's two one-line commands.

curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/rel...ownload/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp