Open Acenl12 opened 8 months ago
seems that the youtube-dl version you have was not made for the distro you are using, how did you install it?
Using pip3 as documented
youtube-dl --version
2021.12.17
pip3 show youtube-dl
Name: youtube-dl
Version: 2021.12.17
Summary: YouTube video downloader
Home-page: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Author: Ricardo Garcia
Author-email: ytdl@yt-dl.org
License: Unlicense
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/youtube_dl-2021.12.17-py3.11.egg
Requires:
Required-by:
I'm also getting this error now: ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 634, in _request_webpage return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2288, in urlopen return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open response = meth(req, response) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 634, in http_response response = self.parent.error( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 563, in error return self._call_chain(*args) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 496, in _call_chain result = func(*args) ^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 643, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
i have had enough issues with youtube-dl, it is no longer maintained i already migarted to a maintaned fork called https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp i recommend switching to that one too
Thanks, to fix the HTTP error 403 I had to setup a VPN, because something was blocking the traffic to CB.
i have had enough issues with youtube-dl, it is no longer maintained i already migarted to a maintaned fork called https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp i recommend switching to that one too
I switched to yt-dlp, only had to update the config.json al default YouTube-dl options in the config work also with yt-dlp. So i created a pull request
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Please help for a fix!