On Wed, 8 May 2019 09:08:12 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Wed, 8 May 2019, Nux! wrote:
How did you install it?
Most recently yum reinstall youtube-dl
I'm using their binary and it works great, just tested it.
So am I. Despite generally favoring regular repositories, in the particular case of youtube-dl I prefer to uninstall the repo version, and follow the instructions on their website above. I just do a wget and a chmod as explained there, and it downloads itself into /usr/local/bin. Whenever it fails to work, usually a simple
sudo youtube-dl -U
will update itself to the latest version, which does work.
The errors you encounter are typically not a problem in the script itself, nor in python, but a change in the structure of the youtube.com html code. It gets changed often, and then the older youtube-dl fails to parse the new youtube.com code structure, and errors out. But usually there is an updated version (often the same day) of youtube-dl, which parses the new html code correctly.
If you use the repo version of youtube-dl, it may take a couple of weeks even for the update to land. On the other hand, the above manual update works immediately, with no hassle.
Never failed me so far.
HTH, :-) Marko