Is Youtube-dl downloader still active and running ?
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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).
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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