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nobody
Asked: 2020-10-31 10:45:13 +0800 CST

youtube-dl from git no longer available

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Right now I would download a small video from walkthroug from a game. so I started with

alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$ sudo youtube-dl -U
ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later.
alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$

after little bit searching I found this and this too

Is there an alternative? with my current version I am not able to download it

alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$ youtube-dl --version
2020.09.14
alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$
video youtube git

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The latest version is available on the official website, where you can download the tar.gz file (v2020.09.20). On the homepage, there is a message: "Currently our dev repository is taken down due to DMCA takedown notice by RIAA. Downloads still work as usual."

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  2. The widely used fork youtube-dlc is still being actively maintained.

    It's probably a good idea to switch for the time being because the September release from youtube-dl.org is already bitrotted and doesn't work with YouTube (and possibly some other sites) any more. The most recent youtube-dlc release (dated today) does work.

    It looks like youtube-dlc has removed the tests that were used as a pretext to take down the main repository. Whether that means they're safe, I couldn't say.

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  3. You could try this. This was in the readme of the original repo.

    sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

    This updated my version to 2020.09.20. Maybe that'll be enough for you.

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