Is Youtube-dl Working For Anyone? ((Help!))
Guys,
I've been going nuts since recently trying to use Youtube-dl. I keep getting the "unable to extract uploader id" error message. Googled it, and there seem to be thousands of people having the same issue, with various solutions proposed...but I'm not seeing any viable fixes. (In the past, I'd get that error; do a simple update via youtube-dl -U, and it'd be fixed) Running Youtube-dl 2021.12.17 (latest) installed via curl from Github. OS: Bunsenlabs Linux. |
Swicth to yt-dlp. youtube-dl isn't being maintained much.
Edit: Probably in your repo or https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp |
Searching should have pointed you towards yt-dlp, which is a fork of youtube-dl that is currently maintained.
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Thanks for the replies, everyone.
Yes, I did see the yt-dlp solution mentioned; was going to try it, but saw that it requires the latest incarnation of Python (3.10 I believe) but unfortunately, the latest I can get through my repositories is 3.7.... Turbocap, I will definitely take a look at the Invidious thing- thanks. (from an Anarcho-capitalist!) |
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Turns out, I have python 3.5.... Can't update any newer via the apt-get- anyone know of a way I can get 3.7 or newer [for dummies!]?
This is getting ridiculous- the time I'm consuming just sop I can once again download some audio from some damn Youtube vids! |
Okay, I'll admit to have at least one too many tonight. But Linux is clearly driving me to it.
I've tried to deal with this for over a week, looking for yt-dip. Only today I realized it's my old eyes and a lousy font. IT's yt-dLp, NOT -dIp. Good Lord, Linux is going to lose all it's old-time users this way. You've introduced far too many unnecessary changes too quickly. Worse, the changes are unwarranted. |
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There seems to be a lot of unnecessary panic here! A quick check at the git-hub link given in post 2 shows that yt-dlp requires Python 3.7 and BunsenLabs got that two years ago — it currently has 3.9.
Things get updated and always have done, otherwise we'd all be struggling along with Linux 1 and no GUIs. |
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My "daily driver" machine is running an RHEL 8 clone, and that just has Python 3.6.8. So, I have a virtual machine running Fedora 37 for stuff that needs newer support. Fedora 37 has Python 3.11.2, much newer libs, etc.
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Youtube-dl is now working for me, again. I'm not sure when the problem disappeared, but it was probably this morning perhaps after an update and reboot (my habit is to that every couple of days or so).
However, I've also been having problems with my third-party e-mail client too (in this case the version used by Fedora 37 kde). I've been able to get to email (AOL) using the browser, but not Thunderbird. I'm not sure where the problem might be. This one has been hard to track down. |
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